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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Charles Buller Heberden, rektor - William Orpen
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£37.00 GBP
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£37.00 GBP
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Beskrivning
Ett porträtt av Charles Buller Heberden av William Orpen, som fångar akademikern i ett ögonblick av tyst studium med uttrycksfulla, måleriska penseldrag.
Detta porträtt föreställer Charles Buller Heberden, som var rektor för Brasenose College, Oxford. Verket målades av William Orpen år 1908 och visar motivet i profil, försjunken i läsning. Orpen använder en självsäker, målerisk teknik, med synliga penseldrag för att definiera sittandets form och de akademiska kläderna han bär. Kompositionen fokuserar på interaktionen mellan motivet och boken, där ljuskällan belyser sidorna och sidan av Heberdens ansikte. Orpen var en mycket skicklig tecknare och målare, känd för sin förmåga att fånga karaktären hos sina modeller genom direkt observation. I detta verk ger den mörka, dämpade bakgrunden en kontrast till de ljusare tonerna i ansiktet och den öppna boken. De akademiska kläderna, inklusive huvan med dess röda kant, är återgivna med återhållsamhet, vilket gör att betraktaren kan fokusera på motivets koncentration. Penseldragen är lösa men precisa, ett kännetecken för Orpens stil under denna period av hans karriär. Han undviker onödiga detaljer och föredrar att antyda textur och form genom applicering av färg. Som ett akademiskt porträtt följer verket genrens traditioner samtidigt som det visar konstnärens individuella förhållningssätt till ljus och skugga. Motivet presenteras i ett ögonblick av tyst studium, vilket återspeglar universitetets vetenskapliga miljö. Orpens förmåga att balansera de formella kraven i ett beställningsarbete med sina egna konstnärliga intressen är tydlig här. Målningen är ett tydligt exempel på tidigt 1900-tals brittiskt porträttmåleri, där inflytandet från franska impressionistiska tekniker började smälta samman med mer traditionell akademisk utbildning. Resultatet är en studie av både individen och den roll han intog inom institutionen.
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Charles Buller Heberden, rektor - William Orpen
Ordinarie pris
Från £30.00 GBP
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Från £30.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
William Orpen
Orpen entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art at twelve and won virtually every prize available. He moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in London and repeated the performance. By his early thirties he was the most commercially successful portrait painter in Britain, earning what would now be millions of pounds per year from commissions by the wealthy and the powerful.
During the First World War he was sent to the Western Front as an official war artist for the British government. He was the most prolific of the war artists, producing 138 works: drawings and paintings of soldiers, dead men, German prisoners, ruined trenches, and the blank exhaustion that photographs of the period cannot quite capture. He donated all 138 to the British government. They are now in the Imperial War Museum.
After the war he painted The Signing of the Peace Treaty at Versailles, which should have been the capstone of his career. Instead it became a controversy. He also painted To the Unknown British Soldier in France, a composition that originally included ghostly military figures alongside a flag-draped coffin. The Imperial War Museum refused to accept it until he removed the figures in 1927.
He never fully recovered from the physical and mental effects of the war. He continued to paint society portraits at extraordinary prices (over 50,000 pounds a year by 1929), but those who knew him said something had changed.
He was Irish, from Stillorgan in County Dublin, a fact that became complicated as the independence movement gathered force during and after the war. He accepted a knighthood from the British crown. He died in 1931, aged fifty-two, and faded to near-total obscurity until 2001, when a portrait sold at Sotheby's for nearly two million pounds.
During the First World War he was sent to the Western Front as an official war artist for the British government. He was the most prolific of the war artists, producing 138 works: drawings and paintings of soldiers, dead men, German prisoners, ruined trenches, and the blank exhaustion that photographs of the period cannot quite capture. He donated all 138 to the British government. They are now in the Imperial War Museum.
After the war he painted The Signing of the Peace Treaty at Versailles, which should have been the capstone of his career. Instead it became a controversy. He also painted To the Unknown British Soldier in France, a composition that originally included ghostly military figures alongside a flag-draped coffin. The Imperial War Museum refused to accept it until he removed the figures in 1927.
He never fully recovered from the physical and mental effects of the war. He continued to paint society portraits at extraordinary prices (over 50,000 pounds a year by 1929), but those who knew him said something had changed.
He was Irish, from Stillorgan in County Dublin, a fact that became complicated as the independence movement gathered force during and after the war. He accepted a knighthood from the British crown. He died in 1931, aged fifty-two, and faded to near-total obscurity until 2001, when a portrait sold at Sotheby's for nearly two million pounds.
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- Giclée-tryck i museikvalitet för fylliga, blekningsbeständiga färger
- Arkivbeständigt matt konstpapper, FSC-certifierat
- Flera storlekar och inramningsalternativ tillgängliga
- Ramar i svart, naturträ, mörkt trä eller vitt
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- Hantera tryck med rena, torra händer
Material och storlek
Gicléeutskrift av museikvalitet på FSC-certifierat matt arkivpapper, med inramade alternativ och alternativ på canvas.
- Pappersstorlekar: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 och B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) till Large (60×90 cm)
- Ramar: svart, naturligt trä, mörkt trä eller vit
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Fine Art Framed
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
Premium Box Frame
From £95
A deeper solid wood frame: 33mm deep with a 20mm face and Perspex glaze. The print sits unmounted for a clean gallery presentation. Black, white or natural.
Canvas
From £30
Hand-stretched canvas with neat gallery-wrapped edges, giving the artwork surface texture and depth. Arrives ready to hang.
Framed Canvas
From £135
Stretched canvas set in a floating wood frame, our most substantial finish. Arrives ready to hang.
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Artistbiografi
William Orpen
Orpen entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art at twelve and won virtually every prize available. He moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in London and repeated the performance. By his early thirties he was the most commercially successful portrait painter in Britain, earning what would now be millions of pounds per year from commissions by the wealthy and the powerful.
During the First World War he was sent to the Western Front as an official war artist for the British government. He was the most prolific of the war artists, producing 138 works: drawings and paintings of soldiers, dead men, German prisoners, ruined trenches, and the blank exhaustion that photographs of the period cannot quite capture. He donated all 138 to the British government. They are now in the Imperial War Museum.
After the war he painted The Signing of the Peace Treaty at Versailles, which should have been the capstone of his career. Instead it became a controversy. He also painted To the Unknown British Soldier in France, a composition that originally included ghostly military figures alongside a flag-draped coffin. The Imperial War Museum refused to accept it until he removed the figures in 1927.
He never fully recovered from the physical and mental effects of the war. He continued to paint society portraits at extraordinary prices (over 50,000 pounds a year by 1929), but those who knew him said something had changed.
He was Irish, from Stillorgan in County Dublin, a fact that became complicated as the independence movement gathered force during and after the war. He accepted a knighthood from the British crown. He died in 1931, aged fifty-two, and faded to near-total obscurity until 2001, when a portrait sold at Sotheby's for nearly two million pounds.
During the First World War he was sent to the Western Front as an official war artist for the British government. He was the most prolific of the war artists, producing 138 works: drawings and paintings of soldiers, dead men, German prisoners, ruined trenches, and the blank exhaustion that photographs of the period cannot quite capture. He donated all 138 to the British government. They are now in the Imperial War Museum.
After the war he painted The Signing of the Peace Treaty at Versailles, which should have been the capstone of his career. Instead it became a controversy. He also painted To the Unknown British Soldier in France, a composition that originally included ghostly military figures alongside a flag-draped coffin. The Imperial War Museum refused to accept it until he removed the figures in 1927.
He never fully recovered from the physical and mental effects of the war. He continued to paint society portraits at extraordinary prices (over 50,000 pounds a year by 1929), but those who knew him said something had changed.
He was Irish, from Stillorgan in County Dublin, a fact that became complicated as the independence movement gathered force during and after the war. He accepted a knighthood from the British crown. He died in 1931, aged fifty-two, and faded to near-total obscurity until 2001, when a portrait sold at Sotheby's for nearly two million pounds.
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