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Lot Essay
John (1778-1812) and William (1780-1858) were the sons of Sir Robert Wigram of Wexford (1744-1830) and his first wife, Catherine Brodhurst (d. 1786).
John, their fourth child and second son to survive to maturity was a partner in Wigram, Wells and Green and a director of the East India Dock Company. He died unmarried. William, helped his father in his office and was managing partner in Reids brewery. He was Colonel of the Royal East India Volunteers. He commissioned Sir Edwin Landseer to paint two pictures and died unmarried.
Smart executed a total of twelve drawings of the members of the Wigram family, five of them being group portraits. A drawing of Sir Robert Wigram and his second wife, Eleanor and daughter Maria and son, William Pitt, was sold in these rooms, 21 November 2000, lot 8.
In 1912, the Aberdeen University Press printed R. S. Wigram's Wigram Family and in 1913 A Register of the Wigram Family 1743-1913 compiled by W. A. Wigram was privately printed.
John, their fourth child and second son to survive to maturity was a partner in Wigram, Wells and Green and a director of the East India Dock Company. He died unmarried. William, helped his father in his office and was managing partner in Reids brewery. He was Colonel of the Royal East India Volunteers. He commissioned Sir Edwin Landseer to paint two pictures and died unmarried.
Smart executed a total of twelve drawings of the members of the Wigram family, five of them being group portraits. A drawing of Sir Robert Wigram and his second wife, Eleanor and daughter Maria and son, William Pitt, was sold in these rooms, 21 November 2000, lot 8.
In 1912, the Aberdeen University Press printed R. S. Wigram's Wigram Family and in 1913 A Register of the Wigram Family 1743-1913 compiled by W. A. Wigram was privately printed.