Alfred J. Wiggin (1823–1888)
Portrait and landscape painter A. J. Wiggin, who was born in New Hampshire, first came to Cape Ann in the early 1840s, just as Fitz Henry Lane was establishing himself as a marine artist. The earliest known portrait Wiggin did in this area dates to 1842. Over the next 25 years, he produced an undetermined number of canvases recording the faces of Cape Ann citizens and the facades of their houses.
Alfred J. Wiggin (1823–1888)
Portrait and landscape painter A. J. Wiggin, who was born in New Hampshire, first came to Cape Ann in the early 1840s, just as Fitz Henry Lane was establishing himself as a marine artist. The earliest known portrait Wiggin did in this area dates to 1842. Over the next 25 years, he produced an undetermined number of canvases recording the faces of Cape Ann citizens and the facades of their houses.
Selected Works by Alfred J. Wiggin
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Eliza Dennison Wiggin ChildArtist: Alfred J. Wiggin Collections: Faces of Cape Ann: Portraits |
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Portrait of General Benjamin F. ButlerArtist: Alfred J. Wiggin Date of Work: 1869 Medium: Oil on canvas Accession Number: 1618 Credit Line: Gift of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1952 Collections: Faces of Cape Ann: Portraits
Benjamin F. Butler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and made Gloucester his summer home after the Civil War. He is generally noted as having given the neighborhood of Bay View its name, convinced that the sunsets over Ipswich Bay were equal to anything in the Bay of Naples.
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Portrait of Nathalie D. CloughArtist: Alfred J. Wiggin Date of Work: 1868 Medium: Oil on canvas Accession Number: 2085.49 Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Alice E. Babson, 1973 Collections: Faces of Cape Ann: Portraits
Nathalie Clough was born in Gloucester in 1863 and was five years old when this portrait was done of her by artist Alfred Wiggin. Nathalie was the only daughter of Isaac Clough and Georgiana Duley Clough. She was the first person from Gloucester to graduate from Smith College, doing so in 1885 with majors in mathematics and history. Nathalie taught for many years at Gloucester High School and served several terms on the city’s school board.
Nathalie was named for her maternal grandfather, Captain Nathaniel Duley (1808-1882). Capt. Duley was a native of the village of Annisquam and gained prominence as a “master mariner” in the stone freighting trade which flourished on the north side of Cape Ann in the middle of the 19th century. He was also a founder of the Annisquam Mutual Fire Insurance Company (in the 1840s) and an early investor in Mt. Adah Cemetery (in the 1860s). In the years following the Civil War, Duley and his family moved from Annisquam to Gloucester’s Harbor Village, purchasing property just behind the Universalist Church. By the 1880s, Nathaniel Duley had assumed the position of Inspector of Salt, an important and well-regarded post in a seaport which prided itself on salt fish.
Late in life, Nathalie Clough lived in what came to be known as the Lorriane Apartments on Middle Street in Gloucester. Always a firm believer in the merits of education, in her will Nathalie left a substantial bequest to Smith College.
Nathalie Clough never married, and this portrait descended through her cousin, Alice E. Babson to the Cape Ann Museum. |
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Selected Works by Alfred J. Wiggin
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Eliza Dennison Wiggin ChildArtist: Alfred J. Wiggin Collections: Faces of Cape Ann: Portraits |
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Portrait of General Benjamin F. ButlerArtist: Alfred J. Wiggin Date of Work: 1869 Medium: Oil on canvas Accession Number: 1618 Credit Line: Gift of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1952 Collections: Faces of Cape Ann: Portraits
Benjamin F. Butler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and made Gloucester his summer home after the Civil War. He is generally noted as having given the neighborhood of Bay View its name, convinced that the sunsets over Ipswich Bay were equal to anything in the Bay of Naples.
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Portrait of Nathalie D. CloughArtist: Alfred J. Wiggin Date of Work: 1868 Medium: Oil on canvas Accession Number: 2085.49 Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Alice E. Babson, 1973 Collections: Faces of Cape Ann: Portraits
Nathalie Clough was born in Gloucester in 1863 and was five years old when this portrait was done of her by artist Alfred Wiggin. Nathalie was the only daughter of Isaac Clough and Georgiana Duley Clough. She was the first person from Gloucester to graduate from Smith College, doing so in 1885 with majors in mathematics and history. Nathalie taught for many years at Gloucester High School and served several terms on the city’s school board.
Nathalie was named for her maternal grandfather, Captain Nathaniel Duley (1808-1882). Capt. Duley was a native of the village of Annisquam and gained prominence as a “master mariner” in the stone freighting trade which flourished on the north side of Cape Ann in the middle of the 19th century. He was also a founder of the Annisquam Mutual Fire Insurance Company (in the 1840s) and an early investor in Mt. Adah Cemetery (in the 1860s). In the years following the Civil War, Duley and his family moved from Annisquam to Gloucester’s Harbor Village, purchasing property just behind the Universalist Church. By the 1880s, Nathaniel Duley had assumed the position of Inspector of Salt, an important and well-regarded post in a seaport which prided itself on salt fish.
Late in life, Nathalie Clough lived in what came to be known as the Lorriane Apartments on Middle Street in Gloucester. Always a firm believer in the merits of education, in her will Nathalie left a substantial bequest to Smith College.
Nathalie Clough never married, and this portrait descended through her cousin, Alice E. Babson to the Cape Ann Museum. |
View CAM's Rights and Reproduction policy