Edmund Morison Wimperis
{{short description|English painter (1835–1900)}}
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Edmund Morison Wimperis (6 February 1835, in Flocker's Brook, Chester – 25 December 1900, in Southbourne, Christchurch, Hampshire), was a British wood-engraver and watercolourist and member of the Arts Club.{{cite web|url=http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=233a480be183cd92a1ebb4d9c320fc50&topic=287206.msg1701595 |title=Topic: Gt Broughton Marriage LU (Read 2614 times) |access-date=2023-10-10}}{{User-generated source|date=May 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.kevindaniel.250x.com/uk.html |title=Art Collection |accessdate=2010-05-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805233746/http://www.kevindaniel.250x.com/uk.html |archivedate=5 August 2010 |df=dmy-all }}
Life
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He was the eldest son of Mary and Edmund Richard Wimperis. Edmund was a cashier of Messrs. Walker, Parker, & Co.'s lead works at Chester. {{sfn|Dodgson|1901}}
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 Brontës 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 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.{{Cite web|url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tei-source/PlaNine.xml|title = Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook}}
He stayed for some months, exhibiting at the Otago Art Society in 1880.
He died at Southbourne, Christchurch, Hampshire, on 25 December 1900.{{sfn|Dodgson|1901}}
Family
On 11 April 1863 he married Anne Harry Edmonds (b. c. 1841 Penzance), daughter of Walter Edmonds of Penzance,{{sfn|Dodgson|1901}} whose mother was a cousin of Maria Branwell, and Ann Courtenay Harry of Helston, and raised a family of two sons and two daughters, all of whom were talented artists.{{Cite web |url=http://130.195.86.216/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine-t1-body-d1-d1301.html |title=WIMPERIS, "Jenny" (A. Jane) 1838–1927 | NZETC |access-date=28 January 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121129133836/http://130.195.86.216/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine-t1-body-d1-d1301.html |archive-date=29 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Edmund's siblings were:
- Eleanor Wimperis (b.1836)
- John James Wimperis (b.1839)
- Frances Mary Wimperis, known as Fanny (1840–1925), painter and art teacher in Dunedin, New Zealand
- Susanna White Wimperis (1842–1915), botanical artist in Dunedin, New Zealand
- Ann Jane Wimperis, known as Jenny (1844–1929), painter in Dunedin, New Zealand
- Joseph Price Wimperis (1849–1877)
- Harriet Elizabeth Wimperis (1851–1869) {{cite web|url=http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.wimperis/4.2.1.1/mb.ashx|title=Wimperis|access-date=2023-10-10|date=2004-06-02}}
Edmund's children were:
- Edmund Walter Wimperis (1865–1946), architect and partner in Wimperis Simpson & Guthrie{{cite web | url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=203707 | title=Edmund Walter Wimperis | work=Dictionary of Scottish Architects | accessdate=24 September 2016}}
- Arthur Harold Wimperis (1874–1953), illustrator, playwright, lyricist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- Ann H Wimperis
- Ethel M Wimperis
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Category:19th-century English painters
Category:English male painters
Category:English watercolourists
Category:19th-century English engravers
Category:English landscape artists