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Bea (Beatrice) Esther Orpen

Bea (Beatrice) Esther Orpen (1913 - 1980) was active/lived in Ireland, England.  Bea Orpen is known for Abstract landscape and portrait painting, graphic and decorative design, teaching.

Bea Orpen HRHA (7 March 1913 – 12 July 1980) was an Irish landscape and portrait painter and teacher. She aided in the establishment of the Drogheda Municipal Gallery of Art. She was born at Lisheens, Carrickmines, County Dublin, on 7 March 1913. She was one of a pair of twin girls and was the youngest of five daughters and one son of Charles St George Orpen and Cerise Maria Orpen (née Darley).

Her father was a solicitor and served as the president of the Incorporated Law Society from 1915 to 1916. Her sister Kathleen Delap was an activist and feminist. Orpen was the niece of the architect and painter Richard Caulfield Orpen and the painter Sir William Orpen.

She was educated privately at home by a governess until age 13, when she attended the French School, Bray, and then Alexandra College, Dublin. Orpen took private lessons on the fundamentals of colour and line under Lilian Davidson, going on to enroll in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and the Royal Hibernian   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5740 characters.]  Artist bio

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