WIMPERIS, Edmund Monson 1835–1900

Born Chester, England, eldest son of Edmund Richard Wimperis; about 1851 apprenticed to a wood engraver, Mason-Jackson, for seven years. About 1863 began working for publisher Cundall and for the Illustrated London News. About 1873 became a professional landscape watercolourist, member of the Society of British Artists; in 1874 member of the Institute of Painters in Watercolours, and became one of the leading members, Vice-President in 1895. In 1879–80 seems to have accompanied his two sisters Fanny and Jenny when they came to join another sister, Susanna, married and living in Dunedin, and he stayed there some months. Exhibited: OAS 1880. Represented: Hocken.