By Edmund Morison Wimperis
Located in Shippensburg, PA
The breeze is almost palpable in this windswept landscape, the trees bending gently as the storm moves through into the distance. The clouds are heavy as mist and rain continue over the windmill and village at the horizon. In the forefront, two women armed with buckets gather up some fresh water while in the distance a pair of figures strolls through open fields where sheep are freely grazing.
The work is signed in the lower left corner E.M. WIMPERIS and dated '95, the reverse still retaining early gallery labels from both Cooley and Richard Green of London. It hangs in an early and quite fine pierced giltwood frame.
Born at Flocker's Brook, Chester, England in February of 1835, Edmund Morison Wimperis initially studied wood-engraving in London under Mason Jackson and later with Myles Birket Foster. He simultaneously supported himself doing illustrations for, among others, the Illustrated London News.
Under the influence of his friend Thomas Collier...
Category
19th Century British Romantic Antique Edmund Morison Wimperis Furniture
MaterialsCanvas, Giltwood, Paint