Edmund John Niemann was born in Islington, London, to a German father in 1813. He worked as a clerk at Lloyd's Bank as a young man, but from 1839 he devoted himself to art, settling in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Between 1844 and 1872 he exhibited in London, at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of British Artists. In 1848 he became Secretary of the Free Exhibition (later the Portland Gallery) at Hyde Park Corner. A consummate landscape artist he painted outdoors most often views of the Thames and Swale near Richmond, Yorkshire which I believe is what this work shows. Niemann’s later years were plagued by debt and ill health, and his work suffered as a result. He died at about the age of 63 at his home on Brixton Hill, London. This work is framed in the original superb quality gilt frame which is in good untouched condition.