Percy m. Edith Mary Hanbury Aggs (1862-1951)
Griselda Bigland was the daughter of Percy Bigland
source: Wikipedia
Bigland was the son of Edwin Bigland, of Birkenhead in 1856. He was educated like his brother at the Sidcot School as his family were Quakers. Bigland studied art in Munich in Germany for seven years before returning to England where he lived in London, Liverpool, Beaconsfield and Buckinghamshire. He was a regular exhibitor until 1925 at institutions in London and the provinces.
Bigland painted his elder brother, Alfred Bigland who was an M.P. This portrait is in the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead. His most notable subject was the Prime MinisterGladstone, but he also went to America three times to include the department store owner Isaac H Clothier, the dean Elizabeth Powell Bond[4] and landowner and philanthropist William Poole Bancroft in his list of sitters.
In 1891 he was elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1891 and in 1893 he painted Elizabeth Hanbury who was then 100 years old.
Bigland died aged 68 in 1926.
Legacy
Bigland has twenty paintings in British national collections.
Slideshow of Percy Bigland’s paintings in public galleries (click on picture to see next)
Percy Bigland lived at 29 Tite St, Chelsea source
Photo of 31-33 Tite St.
Does 29 still exist?
2 responses
My family has a lovely portrait signed by Percy Bigland. The portrait is of my great Grandmother Virginia Coffee who married my German born great grandfather Paul Teitgens , originally of Hamburg Germany … immigrated to US a a young man. I think the portrait is of young Virginia before or shortly after her marriage to Paul. We want to keep the portrait but we are happy to email photos if you’d like to see it. It is really lovely and people always remark that it looks like a John Singer Sargent portrait ( although I just saw a fabulous exhibit of Sargent ‘s work at the Boston MFA … and I am not sure sure of comparison with the work of Mr Sargent). Vicki Quinn of Scituate Ma USA
Sorry for the late reply – I hadn’t received notifications of comments – yes, I would like to have a photo