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Sir William Orpen KBE RA RI RHA (1878-1931)
Estimate:
€600 - €800
Sold
€850
Timed Auction
The Christmas Sale of Art & Collectibles
Size
16 by 13.50in. (40.6 by 34.3cm)
Description
Title: THE ROSCOMMON DRAGOON, c. 1919
Frame dimensions: 24 by 19.25in. (61 by 48.9cm)
Note: Published by the Fine Art Society, London, in a limited edition of 300, circa 1919.The sitter is Vera Hone, wife of W. B. Yeats’ biographer Joseph Hone and a neighbour of Orpen’s at Howth. Renowned as Orpen’s favourite model, she is depicted here in an Armagh Infantry militia tunic of about 1865, holding a shako of the Roscommon Infantry militia of about 1830 (see Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, page 285).
Frame dimensions: 24 by 19.25in. (61 by 48.9cm)
Note: Published by the Fine Art Society, London, in a limited edition of 300, circa 1919.The sitter is Vera Hone, wife of W. B. Yeats’ biographer Joseph Hone and a neighbour of Orpen’s at Howth. Renowned as Orpen’s favourite model, she is depicted here in an Armagh Infantry militia tunic of about 1865, holding a shako of the Roscommon Infantry militia of about 1830 (see Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, page 285).
Condition
This work appears to be in very good condition.
Medium
colour collotype; (from an edition of 300)
Signature
signed in pencil lower right, also signed in the plate lower right
