An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 Illustrated Edition Dodo Press Paperback 1406531782 9781406531787 Sir William Orpen

• Format: Paperback
• Author: Sir William Orpen
• ISBN10: 1406531782
• ISBN13: 9781406531787

Sir, William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE 1878-1931 was an Irish-born British portrait painter. He studied art at the Metropolitan School and at the Slade School in London where, at the time, great emphasis was put on the study of old masters. He was a fine draughtsman and a popular painter of the well-to-do in the period leading up to World War I. Orpen was made an official war painter of the First World War and in 1917 he travelled to the Western Front. He produced drawings and paintings of privates, dead soldiers and German prisoners of war along with official portraits of generals and politicians.