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William Orpen

1878 - 1931

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Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who mainly worked in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in Edwardian society, though many of his most striking paintings are self-portraits. During World War I, he was the most prolific of the official war artists sent by Britain to the Western Front. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Orpen has received more than 297,223 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). William Orpen is the 1,468th most popular painter (up from 1,532nd in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 201st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Painter.

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  • 300k

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  • 50.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, William Orpen ranks 1,468 out of 2,023. Before him are James Rosenquist, Marie Vassilieff, Unkei, Giuseppe De Nittis, Nikifor, and Louis Hersent. After him are Ivan Aguéli, Lygia Clark, Kristjan Raud, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Willem Roelofs, and José de Madrazo y Agudo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, William Orpen ranks 143. Before him are Gyula Krúdy, Chen Qimei, Raymond Smith Dugan, Oton Župančič, Ernst Hoppenberg, and Siamanto. After him are Artur Kapp, Gaston Alibert, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Hans Carossa, Richard Sheldon, and Peyo Yavorov. Among people deceased in 1931, William Orpen ranks 93. Before him are Jacques Herbrand, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Dmitri Egorov, Louis Wolheim, and Albert Capellani. After him are Hjalmar Bergman, Emil Warburg, Selma Rıza, Alice Pike Barney, Buddy Bolden, and Vladimir Triandafillov.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Orpen ranks 158 out of 549. Before him are Brendan Behan (1923), William Howard Russell (1820), Jane Wilde (1821), Ronnie Drew (1934), Edward Sabine (1788), and Herbert Brenon (1880). After him are John de Robeck (1862), George Browne (1698), Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Ellis (1710), Dorothea Jordan (1761), and Veronica Guerin (1958).

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Among PAINTERS In Ireland

Among painters born in Ireland, William Orpen ranks 2. Before him are Francis Bacon (1909). After him are Paul Kane (1810), Harry Clarke (1889), and Lily Williams (1874).

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