Alfred J. Wiggin

[1][2][3] Examples of his work are in the collections of the Cape Ann Museum;[4][5] Historic New England;[5] Lafayette College;[6] the Peabody Essex Museum;[6] and the Sandy Bay Historical Society.

[7] He also produced landscapes on commission, such as an 1859 oil color of a house in nearby Annisquam for a homesick sea captain.

[8] Wiggin produced portraits of several significant American figures of the mid 19th century.

He painted Zachary Taylor in July 1851, a year after the president's death.

In 1869, he produced a portrait of General Benjamin Butler, who was then a member of the House of Representatives for Wiggin's local district.