Edmond John NIEMANN Oil on CanvasPicture Size: 24 x 42'' (61 x 107cm)Outside Frame Size: 34 x 52'' (86 x 132cm)Signed and dated Niemann 1871 bottom leftA wonderful example of Niemann''s work, more than 150 years old,a very rare piece indeed!!1813 � 1876Exhibited 1844 � 1872Landscape, Angling subjects and Marine PainterHis paintings, often very large, illustrate every phase of nature. He often painted the scenery of the Thames and of the Swale near Richmond in Yorkshire. His son Edward H. Niemann closely imitated his style, and their work is often confused.Niemann was born in Islington, London in 1813. His father, John Diedrich Niemann, was a native of Minden, Westphalia and was a member of Lloyd''s, working in the City of London. As a young man, Edmund was employed as a clerk at Lloyd''s, but he decided to devote himself to art and in 1839 settled in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He became a painter of landscapes, angling subjects and marines. Though he especially enjoyed painting the scenery of the Thames and of the River Swale, near Richmond in Yorkshire, many other areas of the British Isles are covered in the corpus of his work.Between 1844 and 1872, he exhibited paintings at a wide range of prestigious galleries including the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Society of British Artists in Suffolk St, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Institute, the Glasgow Institute, the Paris Salon, the Liverpool Academy of Arts and the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. The first picture exhibited was a view ''On the Thames, near Great Marlow, Bucks'' - a small canvas shown at the Royal Academy in 1844. Niemann and a number of other artists, including Edward Armitage were dissatisfied with the exclusiveness showed by the management of several leading art societies. He returned to London in 1848 for the foundations of the �Free Exhibition� held in the Chinese Gallery at Hyde Park Corner. This exhibition opened wi...