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    WILLIAM ORPEN

    Nov 29, 2019 5 minutes

    A century ago, William Orpen was the highest-paid portrait painter in Britain. Born into a Protestant-Irish family in Stillorgan, County Dublin in 1878, he had studied art at Dublin’s Metropolitan School of Art and the Slade School of Art, London. He was knighted for his work as an official war artist during the First World War and he duly became President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1924.

    Since his death in 1931, Orpen’s visibility in Britain has been low but a new exhibition at the Watts Gallery in Surrey is set to change that. William Orpen: Method & Mastery focuses on his early-to-late portraits and the one thing most artists want to know about: his painting techniques.

    Watts Gallery painting conservator Sally Marriott recognised that there was very little technical

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