Title - The Man from Aran

Artist - Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen

This was originally commissioned by Mrs Howard St George, (who had been his mistress since 1912) along with Orpen's The Holy Year which is now in the National Gallery of Ireland, which was painted in the same year. The self portrait, for which £500 was paid, remained in Mrs St George's collection until after her death in 1935; it was subsequently sold by Sotheby's in July 1939 for £880.