Edmund John Niemann Art

Edmund John Niemann was a prolific and highly successful British landscape artist working mostly in oils. Niemann was born in Islington in 1813. Nine of his paintings are held in the Wolverhampton art gallery. Between 1844–72, he exhibited paintings at a wide range of prestigious galleries, including the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Institution, the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street, 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. His first picture exhibition was at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1844, exhibiting, On the Thames, near Great Marlow, Bucks, a small canvas. Niemann died on April 15, 1876, in Brixton Hill.