Lot 130 Sir William Orpen

Sir William Orpen RA RHA, 1878-1931 THE ROSCOMMON DRAGOON Colour collotype print , 45 x 35.5cm, signed by the artist in pencil, limited edition of 300, printed by The Fine Art Society, London iin 1919. Provenance: The Hone Family, by descent to the current owner. Exhibited: '3rd Annual Exhibition of Facsimiles en Colour', Daniel Egan Gallery, February 1932 Literature: Bruce Arnold, Orpen - Mirror to an Age, p.285 The painting depicts Miss Vera Brewster of Cincinati, later to become Mrs Vera Hone, wife of W.B. Yeats' biographer Joseph Hone. She was a favourite model of Orpens and the origianl was painted in 1913. It shows Mrs Hone in the military tunic of the Armagh Infantry dating to c.1865.