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Sir William Quiller Orchardson

1832–1910

Head of Napoleon, Study for ‘Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon’ c.1880
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Biography

Sir William Quiller Orchardson (27 March 1832 – 13 April 1910) was a Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects who was knighted in June 1907, at the age of 75.

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Her First Dance

Sir William Quiller Orchardson
1884

The First Cloud

Sir William Quiller Orchardson
1887

Her Mother’s Voice

Sir William Quiller Orchardson
exhibited 1888

Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon

Sir William Quiller Orchardson
exhibited 1880

Charles Moxon

Sir William Quiller Orchardson
1875

Mrs Charles Moxon

Sir William Quiller Orchardson
c.1875

Head of Napoleon, Study for ‘Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon’

Sir William Quiller Orchardson
c.1880

Artist as subject

Sir W.Q. Orchardson, R.A.

Edward Onslow Ford
exhibited 1895

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