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Percy Bigland (1856-1926) was an English portrait painter. ==Life== 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.〔(Portrait of Alfred Bigland )〕〔(Biographical note on Percy Bigland, Alfred's brother, in notes to ''The correspondence of James McNeill Whistler'' )〕 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〔(Elizabeth Powell Bond ), Swarthmore.edu, retrieved 11 January 2015〕 and landowner and philanthropist William Poole Bancroft in his list of sitters.〔(Woodlawn Trustees, Inc. records ), Hagley Museum, Delaware〕 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〔(Percy Bigland ), Government Art Collection, retrieved 10 January 2015〕 in 1926.〔(Percy Bigland ), ArtSignatureDictionary, retrieved 10 January 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Percy Bigland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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