Sir William Orpen Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Sir William Orpen available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Sir William Orpen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Le Café Royal à Londres, 1912
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
5 works online by Orpen
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Portrait Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Sir Robert Borden (1854-1937), 1919
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Reflections: China and Japan
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
Man of the West
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, Scotland
Afternoon Sleep
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
4 works online
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Herbert Barnard John Everett, ca.1900
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Norwich Museums, England
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Portrait of Alexander,1st Lord Faringdon
Tyne & Wear Museums, England
Portrait of the Artist, 1908
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
Portrait Of The Artist
University of Aberdeen Marischal Museum, Scotland
George Adam Smith
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Sir William Orpen in the Art Renewal Center
Sir William Orpen at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
Zonnebeke (Tate Britain, London)
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
British Council Arts Group
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sir William Orpen 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Articles and Texticles (Michael Hirsh's Blog on Art + Animation)
Series of 4 illustrated blog posts about William Orpen
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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