Theodore Blake Wirgman

Who was Theodore Blake Wirgman?

Theodore Blake Wirgman 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. Theodore, Charles Wirgman and Francis Wirgman, were sons of Ferdinand Charles Wirgman and Frances Letitia Brereton. Ferdinand Charles' family of successful silversmiths had come to London from Sweden early in the 18th century. Their sister Clara married into the French family Thevenard.

He worked from a studio at 24 Dawson Place, 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.