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Orpen

American  
[awr-puhn] / ˈɔr pən /

noun

  1. Sir William Newenham Montague 1878–1931, Irish painter.


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The men behind the new law included Francis Orpen Morris, a naturalist who was rector of Nunburnholme, and Henry Barnes-Lawrence, the vicar of Bridlington, as historian David Neave explains.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Harold Samuel Orpen of St Mary's Mansions, in Paddington central London, was nearly 47 and a retired regular Army officer.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022

The bank bought the work of young contemporary artists, which was cheap, as well as the work of Yeats, Orpen and Lavery, which even in the 1980s was not.

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2015

Only two British painters in the 20th Century, Walter William Ouless and Sir William Orpen, have left more.

From Time Magazine Archive

He did not speak to us, but after breakfast he said: "Is your name Orpen?"

From An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by Sir William Orpen

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