Artist/Maker: Edmund Morrison Wimperis - Aberystwyth University School of Art Museums and Galleries

Born: 1835, UK, England, Chester Died: 1900, UK, England, Hampshire, Southbourne

Painter, illustrator and engraver. His father was the cashier of Messrs Walker, Parker & Co.’s Chester lead works. Wimperis trained as a wood-engraver with Mason Jackson (1819-1903) and Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899) in London. Initially, he worked as an illustrator, notably for the London Illustrated News, and also created images for Charlotte Brontë’s and George Eliot’s novels. However, he eventually specialized in landscape watercolours due to his weak figurative drawing. He style was influenced by fellow artist and friend Thomas Collier (1840-1891); like him, he was a promoter of ‘plein air’ painting. He mainly depicted landscapes, for example of the Thames Valley, South Downs, Wales and East Anglia. He became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 1875 and was elected Vice President in 1895. The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum hold his works, among others.

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