Edmund Morison Wimperis: A Moorland Track

Edmund Morison Wimperis (British 1835-1900) original large colourful watercolour circa 1875. A moorland track signed with initials and dated ‘EMW 75’ (lower left). Water colour. Approximate size: 35 x 54 cm. About 1851, Edmund was apprenticed to the wood-engraver Mason Jackson, for seven years, and also trained under the watercolourist Myles Birket Foster. From about 1863,…

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Edmund Morison Wimperis (British 1835-1900) original large colourful watercolour circa 1875. A moorland track signed with initials and dated ‘EMW 75’ (lower left). Water colour. Approximate size: 35 x 54 cm.

About 1851, Edmund was apprenticed to the wood-engraver Mason Jackson, for seven years, and also trained under the watercolourist Myles Birket Foster. From about 1863, he worked for the publisher Joseph Cundall and for the Illustrated London News. Later in his life, he started to paint and sketch with Thomas Collier.

When aged about 38 he became a professional landscape watercolourist and member of the Society of British Artists. In 1874, he joined the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and went on to become one of its foremost members, being elected vice-president in 1895. In 1879–80, he accompanied his two sisters Fanny and Jenny on a visit to their sister, Susanna, married and living in Dunedin in New Zealand. He stayed for some months, exhibiting at the Otago Art Society in 1880.

He died at Southbourne, Christchurch, Hampshire, on 25 December 1900.