Career
A number of these portraits are held at the National Portrait Gallery. Theodore Blake Wirgman was born in Belgium and died in London. The Wirgman ancestral family had been successful silversmiths who had come to London from Sweden early in the 18th century.
Thomas Wirgman, Theodore Blake"s grandfather, wrote books on Kant, the German philosopher.
Several of Theodore Blake"s siblings died in infancy. 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.