About: William Orpen (1878-1931)   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

He left school at 12 and studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, alongside Augustus John (with whom he was to set up a short-lived art school in Chelsea) and Wyndham Lewis. His early cartoons were rejected by Punch, and he took a part-time teaching post at the Dublin School of Art (1902-1914) while exhibiting his paintings. During the First World War, he served in the army in 1916, and as an Official War Artist in 1917-1919. He drew widely admired caricatures of participants at the Paris Peace Conference. He was knighted in 1918.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • William Orpen (1878-1931)
rdfs:comment
  • He left school at 12 and studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, alongside Augustus John (with whom he was to set up a short-lived art school in Chelsea) and Wyndham Lewis. His early cartoons were rejected by Punch, and he took a part-time teaching post at the Dublin School of Art (1902-1914) while exhibiting his paintings. During the First World War, he served in the army in 1916, and as an Official War Artist in 1917-1919. He drew widely admired caricatures of participants at the Paris Peace Conference. He was knighted in 1918.
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:irishcomics...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • He left school at 12 and studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, alongside Augustus John (with whom he was to set up a short-lived art school in Chelsea) and Wyndham Lewis. His early cartoons were rejected by Punch, and he took a part-time teaching post at the Dublin School of Art (1902-1914) while exhibiting his paintings. During the First World War, he served in the army in 1916, and as an Official War Artist in 1917-1919. He drew widely admired caricatures of participants at the Paris Peace Conference. He was knighted in 1918. He was a very successful portrait painter, although his use of photographs was criticised - Max Beerbohm caricatured him painting a man sitting with his back to the artist, reading a newspaper.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software