Édouard-Auguste Imer

Édouard-Auguste Imer (23 December 1820, Avignon – 13 June 1881, Haarlem) was a French painter of Swiss ancestry.

Having been exposed to art since he was a boy (his father was an amateur collector), he decided to study painting with Émile Loubon at the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille [fr].

In 1853, he made an extended trip to Lazio with his friends, Ernest Hébert and Eugène Castelnau [fr].

He spent the winter of 1855 in Egypt, with Jean-Léon Gérôme, Léon Belly and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who was there at the invitation of the newly formed Suez Canal Company.

He apparently made several visits to Venice during this time, but his earliest known work depicting that city was in 1872.