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A Prospect of Ashdown Forest, Kent with #1568000

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A Prospect of Ashdown Forest, Kent with #1568000
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A Prospect of Ashdown Forest, Kent with a figure in the foreground and a flock of sheep in the middle distance by Edmund John Niemann 1813-1876</em></td>
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Edmund John Niemann, 1813-1876, landscape-painter, was born at Islington, London, in 1813. His father, John Diederich Niemann, a native of Minden in Westphalia, was a member of Lloyd's, and young Niemann entered that establishment as a clerk at the age of thirteen. In 1839, however, a love of painting induced him to adopt art as a profession. He took up his residence at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, and remained there until 1848, when the foundation of the ?Free Exhibition,? held in the Chinese Gallery at Hyde Park
Corner, of which he became secretary, led to his return to London. He began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1844, when he sent an oil painting, ?On the Thames, near Great Marlow,? and a drawing of ?The Lime Kiln at Cove's End, Wooburn, Bucks.? He continued to exhibit at the Academy until 1872; but more often his works appeared at the British Institution and the Society of British Artists, as well as at the Manchester, Liverpool, and other provincial exhibitions. His pictures, some of which are of large dimensions, illustrate every phase of nature. They are characterised by great versatility, but have been described as at once dexterous and depressing. The scenery of the Swale, near Richmond in Yorkshire, often furnished him with a subject. One of his best and largest works was ?A Quiet Shot,? afterwards called ?Deer Stalking in the Highlands,? exhibited at the British Institution in 1861. Among others may be named ?Clifton,? 1847; ?The Thames at Maidenhead? and ...
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#: 2974</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:19th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Edmund John Niemann</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:A Prospect of Ashdown Forest, Kent with</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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