Orpen

Harold Samuel Orpen of St Mary's Mansions, in Paddington central London, was nearly 47 and a retired regular Army officer.

Orpen's form is noticeable for its lack of fountain-pen ink.

This afternoon they were lying on the tar road just outside of Orpen Rest Camp.

“This afternoon they were lying on the tar road just outside of Orpen Rest Camp.”

The bank bought the work of young contemporary artists, which was cheap, as well as the work of Yeats, Orpen and Lavery, which even in the 1980s was not.