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Edmund Morrison Wimperis: Yorkshire Moorland
A 19th Century work of the Yorkshire Moorland near Penistone, watercolour by Edmund Morrison Wimperis (1835-1900). This is a good large work with bright colours and fine brushwork. 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…
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A 19th Century work of the Yorkshire Moorland near Penistone, watercolour by Edmund Morrison Wimperis (1835-1900). This is a good large work with bright colours and fine brushwork.
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.
