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Theodore Blake Wirgman
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow, drawing

circa 1880

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Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, (1850-1919) pen and black ink on paper, inscribed with thename of the sitter on the verso of the sheet, now not visible under the framing 15 x 12 cm In a modern frame 34.5 x 30 cm Theodore Blake Wirgman (29 April 1848 – 16 January 1925) was an English painter and etcher who moved to London, studied at the Royal Academy schools, became a painter of history and genre subjects, and worked as a portrait artist for The Graphic. A number of these portraits are held at the National Portrait Gallery. Theodore Blake Wirgman was born in Belgium and died in London. He worked from a studio at 24 Dawson Place, Notting Hill, London, and joined The Arts Club in 1892. Wirgman was part of a group of avant-garde young artists who emulated Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon. This group was made up of Walter Crane, Robert Bateman, Harry Ellis Wooldridge and Edward Clifford. He realized portraits artists of his time among them this portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow (24 May 1850 – 25 October 1919). Waterlow was an English painter. He was born in London, and received the main part of his art education in the Royal Academy schools, where, in 1873, he gained the Turner medal for landscape-painting He was elected associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1880, member in 1894, and president in 1897; associate of the Royal Academy in 1890, and academician in 1903; and he was knighted in 1902. He began to exhibit in 1872 and produced a considerable number of admirable landscapes, in oil and watercolour, handled with grace and distinction. One of his pictures, Galway Gossips, is in the Tate collection
  • Creator:
    Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848 - 1925)
  • Creation Year:
    circa 1880
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 5.91 in (15 cm)Width: 4.73 in (12 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Paris, FR
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: Inv 3081stDibs: LU111225483192
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