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William Newenham Montague Orpen
William Newenham Montague Orpen is a Post-Impressionism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Orpen kept a neat studio in Chelsea where he taught drawing by insisting his students copy the same plaster cast for weeks, no shortcuts. He once painted a portrait of a man in a bowler hat so lifelike, the sitter’s family swore it had his soul in it. Try swiping through The Draftsman and his Model: watch how the artist’s pencil hovers just above the paper, like he’s afraid to commit.
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