Idina Wallace – William Orpen Art Print

Lady Idina Wallace (1915) – William Orpen

In 1915, Orpen painted Idina Wallace — and the man who commissioned it wasn't her husband. Sir James Dunn, a millionaire industrialist smitten with Idina, paid £750 for Orpen to paint her full-length, in black, against a lamp-black background. It was an exorbitant sum at the time. The result is considered one of the finest portraits of Orpen's career — a lithe, composed figure in silk, looking out from the canvas with complete self-possession.

Idina was the daughter of the 8th Earl De La Warr and became one of the most talked-about women of her generation — beautiful, wealthy, and entirely on her own terms. She would go on to marry five times. In 1915, she was twenty-two years old and Orpen caught her exactly at that moment: before everything, already untouchable. The painting sold at Sotheby's London in 2013 for £962,500.

Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), born in Stillorgan, Co Dublin, trained at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and the Slade School in London, becoming one of the most successful portrait painters of his generation. His work hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland.

Sizes & Format

• Canvas Print — 50 × 100 cm / 20 × 40″ (vertical, slim profile)

Canvas Details

Printed on artist-grade canvas and stretched on a slim wooden frame — arrives ready to hang.

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