Artist
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.
Works by William Newenham Montague Orpen
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.