Frances Wimperis

Frances Mary Wimperis (1840 – 19 May 1925) was a New Zealand artist.

Early life Wimperis was born in Chester, England, in 1840. She was the fourth in a family of eight children born to Mary (née Morison) and Edmund Wimperis. Her father was a school drawing teacher and later a manager at a leadworks.

Wimperis emigrated to New Zealand in 1880 with her sister Jenny, to join their married sister Susanna. They joined Susanna's household in Mornington, Dunedin, and continued to paint and exhibit.

Legacy In 2002, the Hocken Library staged an exhibition featuring the work of Wimperis and her two sisters, Susanna and Jenny, and her niece, Susanna's daughter Eleanor Joachim.