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Sir William Orpen RA RI HRHA (1878-1931) STUDY FO

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Sir William Orpen RA RI HRHA (1878-1931) STUDY FO
<B>Sir William Orpen RA RI HRHA (1878-1931)</B><BR>STUDY FOR SWINTON FAMILY PORTRAIT, circa 1901<BR>pen and ink<BR>17 by 19cm., 6.5 by 7.5in.<BR>Provenance:<BR>Sketchbook given by the artist to fellow Slade School student, Michael Salaman;<BR>Pyms Gallery, London; Frederick Gallery, Dublin; Whyte's, 29 April 2003, lot 83; Private collection, Dublin Exhibited: 'Drawings, Etchings and Engravings', Frederick Gallery, Dublin, November 1998, catalogue no. 11 Bruce Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, pages 91, 97 This work is a preliminary sketch for one of Orpen's earliest commissions, a portrait of Sir George Swinton (a member of the London Corporation) with his wife (an actress) and their two children, illustrated on page 97 of Orpen: Mirror to an Age. One of six known studies for the painting, it reveals, according to Bruce Arnold, "the development of relationships in an ambitious type of work, of a kind of which Orpen painted regularly from 1900 until the First World War".
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