SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A. (1878-1931) Sir Aston Webb signed, inscribed and dated Sir Aston Webb, P.R.A./by Sir Wm Orpen, RA/4 July 1921. (lower left) pencil 17 x 10.8 cm. (6 ¾ x 4 ¼ in) Executed on 4 July 1921, at The Arts Club, London Sold with a letter from Sir Aston Webb to Sir David Murray, dated 5 July 1921 Eminent architect Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) designed the principal facade of Buckingham Palace and the main building of the Victoria & Albert Museum, among other major works around Britain, many of them in partnership with Ingress Bell. The Scottish landscape painter Sir David Murray (1849-1933) was a fellow Royal Academician and direct contemporary of Bell's. Orpen, a generation younger than both Bell and Murray, was made a Royal Academician after the First World War, and drew the present work when Bell was its President (1919 to 1924).