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Who is William Orpen?

Self-Portrait (1907)

Signed lower right: Orpen. Half-length, turned to his right, holding a palette in his right hand and a brush in his left hand, staring intently at his sitter. Depicting the artist at work the way George Moore, as a sitter, would have observed him.

Orpen pictured Moore at least 20 times; see the portraits elsewhere in this Iconography. Moore commissioned and owned the first, painted in his home in Dublin four years before this self-portrait; it hung in his homes until he died.

Owned by the National Gallery of Australia, Mildura Arts Centre Collection.