LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (height) by 24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Manchester, Platt Hall, Rusholme, Works by William Nicholson, June - July 1933, no. 61, as 'Sir William Orpen', incorrectly attributed to Sir William Nicholson. Scarborough, Public Library, Retrospective of William Nicholson Paintings, August - September 1933, no. 51, as 'Sir William Orpen', incorrectly attributed to Sir William Nicholson. Folkestone, Public Art Gallery, Lady Sassoon Room, William Nicholson Paintings & Lithographs, October - November 1933, no. 38, as 'Sir William Orpen', incorrectly attributed to Sir William Nicholson. Johannesburg, British Council, Empire Exhibition, September 1936 - January 1937, no. 605, as 'Portrait of Sir William Orpen', incorrectly attributed to Sir William Nicholson.

Literature:

B. Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, London, 1981, p. 263, dated 1899.

Provenance:

Acquired direct from the artist by Mrs. Gertrude Kinnell, sister of Annie, later 1st Viscountess Cowdray, as a gift, 1927.