William Orpen
, Irish, 1878-1931
Title
Illustrated letter from William Orpen to Mrs St George with a sketch of the artist and three womenDate?1907
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions
33.5 x 20.5 cm
Signedlower right: William Orpen
Credit LinePresented, Mrs Vivien Graves, 1974
Object numberNGI.7830.245
Inscriptionupper centre: that I'm painting Nat Hone portrait) shes a play actress/under the name of O'Malley - and works for Shaw/and Barker - fair haired - plump and has a/golfing husband - the other a Mrs [Usriache] -/very interesting-advanced-lives London-husband/centre: [in speech bubble] if you will not go/quietly- I regret that/I shall have to use force.
lower centre: killed in South Africa - now don't thise two sound the real/thing - the only drawback is that I only saw them/once and they've both gone back to London and left/me no addresses. TELL ALCI I AM NOW GOING TO THE/STORES ON THE WAY TO THE TRAIN TO SEE ABOUT THE LITTLE/WOODEN RAKE. Yours very sincerely William Orpen
ProvenancePresented by Mrs Vivien Graves to the National Gallery of Ireland in 1974.