*Please Note. This price excludes the cost of carriage which will be an additional £16.00 within the UK. Worldwide shipping available*A pleasing study that highlights two figures fishing from the bank of a mill pond. The old watermill can be seen in the background. Signed with initials lower right E.M.W, presented within a good quality glazed gilt frame. Framers label verso for Ruislip Frame Works, Middlesex.Size to include frame: H40cm L49cm Image only: H21.8cm L 30.5cmCondition: Small losses to the outer corners of the frame, very minor staining to the outer edges of the study.Edmund Morison Wimperis was the eldest son of Mary and Edmund Richard Wimperis. Edmund was a cashier of Messrs. Walker, Parker, & Co.''s lead works at Chester. Artistically, the members of this family were unusually talented and were all raised in Chester. They were close friends of Charles Kingsley, the author of Water Babies, who at that time was a canon of Chester Cathedral. Edmund''s children were members of the Naturalists Field Club, with Kingsley as the leader. They were also connected by marriage to the Brontes through a Maria Branwell, the mother of the famous sisters.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 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.Height is 40cm (15.7inches)
Width is 49cm (19.3inches)
Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)