Lot 194
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Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more PROPERTY OF A DECEASED'S ESTATE Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899) lots 194-198 Myles Birket Foster 'stands as one of England's most popular landscape draughtsmen and as a painter in water-colour of great distinction' the Dalziel Brothers recalled after the artist's death; while the Daily Graphic (26 December 1906) exclaimed 'Birket Foster produced something new - he was a tête d'école... never approached by any other of his followers of rivals'. Christopher Newall, in his Victorian Watercolours, London, 1987, discusses Birket Foster's combination of 'progressive and traditional methods' and praises his 'vibrant colours unified and made tonally harmonious by the virtuosity of his stippled bodycolour technique' (op. cit., p. 60). Birket Foster was born in North Shields on the Tyne but was brought up in London and was apprenticed to a wood engraver. He took up watercolour painting after his 1852-4 tour of the Rhineland and became a member of the Old Water Colour Society in 1860. In 1863 he moved to Witley and it was from then on that his most typical watercolours were executed. The following five watercolours are some of Birket Foster finest examples of sentimental rustic scenes.
Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)

'To Gather King-Cups In The Yellow Mead And Prink Their Hair With Daisies'

Details
Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
'To Gather King-Cups In The Yellow Mead And Prink Their Hair With Daisies'
signed with monogram 'BF' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'To gather king cups in the yellow meed and prink their hair with daisies Birket Foster/The Hill/Witley/Surrey.' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse of the frame)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
31 x 27 in. (79 x 68 3/4 cm)
Provenance
with MacConnal-Mason & Son, London.
with Foord & Dickinson, London.
Exhibited
London, Royal Watercolour Society, Summer 1865, no. 307.
London, Royal Watercolour Society, 1893, no. 33.
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