Hi Sarah, I searched on internet and found a 1993 sale at Sotheby's of the following piece of art by Charles Piggot: http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=9236B23E13B9352E This listing does not give a date for the work of art but it would seem to have been done about the right time. I am trying to find more information on this artist. There is a Charles Peter Durant Piggott in my research who was born in All Souls, Marylebone, London, September 28, 1851. I have not found any mention of him as an artist but in the 1871 Census he is a 19 year old living with his widowed mother and his school master brother. Living in the same building, next door to them, is the artist William Henry Midwood. Charles could have been been exposed to this influence. I am pasting the transcription of this census entry below. Some works by William Henry Midwood can be seen at: http://www.myartprints.co.uk/UK/artist/William-Henry-Midwood-4675.html 1871 Census RG 10/154 Folio 28, p. 50 Civil parish: St Marylebone, Ecclesiastical parish: Trinity, Town: London County/Island: London, Country: England Registration district: Marylebone, Sub-registration district: All Souls ED: 15, Household schedule number: 369 31 Bolsover Street Harriet Ellis Head W. 64 Housekeeper Suffolk - Beccles James " Son Unm 28 Cab driver Middlesex - Brompton Henry " Son Unm. 24 Carman " " Charles Wakeling Head mar 63 Window Blind maker's porter Bucks - St. Marlow Mercy " Wife " 67 Berks - Windsor Susannah Piggott Head W 58 Nil Suffolk - Felixstowe William " Son Unm 32 Schoolmaster Middlesex - Marylebone Robert " Son Unm 23 Clerk " " Charles " Son Unm 19 porter " " William H. Midwood Head mar 37 Artist figure painter in oil Yorkshire - Huddersfield Eliz. " Wife mar 34 - Newcastle Agnes " Dau 3 Middlesex - Marylebone F.G.B. " Son 4 ms. " " In the 1881 census the Charles Piggott I have supposed to be him is a butler on Cambridge Square in Paddington. He is unmarried. At 01:35 AM 20/07/2007, you wrote: >Hi All, > >I am searching for information on a Charles Piggott. He is a bit of a >mystery. On my fathers side of the tree, I have an ancestor called Alice >Rosalind Charles-Piggott (sometimes written Piggott-Charles). Her mother >was called Sarah Charles, and her father was Charles Piggott. > >This is where the mystery starts as I cannot find any information really >over either mother or father. > >On the birth certificate, there is no father written there. Which I presume >would mean that Alice was born outside of wedlock around 1872 in St. >Pancras, London. Mother is specified as a Sarah Charles. > >In 1892 Alice married a John Thompson (also in London), and changed her name >to Charles-Thompson. On the marriage certificate, I find a reference to her >father. His name is registered as Charles Piggott, occupation, artist. It >also says that he is deceased. However, I am unable to find a death >certificate, or references in the census', etc to him. > >I don't know when or where Charles was born, only that he was an artist, and >died somewhere before 1892. >I can't seem to find any references to brothers or sisters either. >So I am at a bit of a loss as to how to proceed. > >Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated. > >Thanks in advance > >Sarah > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PIGGOTT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message