Edmund Johann Niemann - Artist Info

About Edmund Johann Niemann

Name variants

Edmund John Neimann, John E Nieman, Edmond John Niemann
  • Biography

    Edmund John Niemann was born in Islington, London in 1813. His father, John Diedrich Niemann, was a native of Minden, Westphalia and was a member of Lloyd's, working in the City of London. As a young man, Edmund was employed as a clerk at Lloyd's, but he decided to devote himself to art and in 1839 settled in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, mostly painting out of doors. Though he especially enjoyed painting the scenery of the Thames and of the River Swale, near Richmond in Yorkshire, many other areas of the British Isles are covered in the corpus of his work.

    Between 1844 and 1872, he exhibited paintings at a wide range of prestigious galleries including the Royal Academy*, the British Institution, the Society of British Artists in Su...

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