Jenny Wimperis

Ann Jane "Jenny" Wimperis (1844 – 20 June 1929) was a British-born New Zealand watercolourist.

Early life Wimperis was born in Chester, England, in 1844. She was the fifth 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. and exhibited in London with the Royal Society of British Artists between 1868 and 1875.

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

When World War I broke out in 1914 Wimperis returned to Dunedin, and in 1916 moved back to England and lived in Surrey until her death on 20 June 1929.