Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait Of Ernest Albert Waterlow, Pen Drawing

Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925)
Portrait of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, (1850-1919)
pen and black ink on paper, bears the name of the model on the back of the sheet
15 x 12 cm
In a modern frame 34.5 x 30 cm

Theodore Blake Wirgman (April 29, 1848 - January 16, 1925) was an English painter and printmaker, he studied at the Royal Academy schools, became a painter of history and genre subjects, and worked as a portrait painter for The Graphic. A number of these portraits are kept at the National Portrait Gallery. Wirgman was one of a group of young avant-garde artists who imitated Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon. This group consisted of Walter Crane, Robert Bateman, Harry Ellis Wooldridge and Edward Clifford. He made portraits of artists of his time among them this portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow (May 24, 1850 - October 25, 1919).