Background
Wedmore was born at Richmond Hill, Clifton, the eldest son of Thomas Wedmore of Druids Stoke, Stoke Bishop.
Wedmore was born at Richmond Hill, Clifton, the eldest son of Thomas Wedmore of Druids Stoke, Stoke Bishop.
After a short experience of journalism in Bristol he came to London in 1868, and began to write for The Spectator. His early works included two novels, but the best examples of his prose are perhaps to be found in his volumes of short stories, Pastorals of France (1877), Renunciations (1893), Orgeas and Miradou (1896), reprinted in 1905 as A Dream of Provence. In 1900 he published another novel, The Collapse of the Penitent.
As early as 1878 he had begun a long connection with the London Standard as art critic.
He began his studies on etching with a noteworthy paper in The Nineteenth Century (1877–1878) on the etchings of Charles Méryon. His other works include Studies in English Art (2 vols, 1876–1880), The Masters of Genre Painting (1880), English Water Colour (1902), Turner and Ruskin (2 vols, 1900).
He was knighted in 1912. He published that year his Memories, a book of reminiscences, social and literary.
He also published Painters and Painting (1913) and a novel, Brenda Walks On (1916).
He died at Sevenoaks.