Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)

The Bridge near Dalmally, Argyll, Scotland

Details

Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
The Bridge near Dalmally, Argyll, Scotland
signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out
6 x 12 in. (32.5 x 16.5 cm.)
with a letter from Birket Foster attached to the reverse inscribed 'Braeside, The Heath/Weybridge/The Hill.Witley./Surrey./9"Aug.^t. 1894/Dear Sir/I remember quite well/the two drawings you/mention as having sold to/M^r Barford Williamson/On a bridge on the Dalmally/Road with other a "Boatbuilder"/at Runswick near Whitby. I/think they are both good examples/of my work/I am faithfully yours/Birket.Foster/J. Richardson Esq.'

Provenance

Barford Williamson.
J. Richardson.
Anonymous sale; Philips, London, 24 April 1989, lot 126.

Exhibited

Probably London, Royal Society of Painters in Water-colour, Winter 1886-7, no. 347.

Lot Essay

Birket Foster showed Scottish watercolours at the Royal Water-colour Society in almost every year of his thirty-nine years as an exhibitor there. He stayed at a specially converted cottage at Pittlochry, near the Grampian mountains, where he worked on watercolours commissioned from him by dealers, such as the series executed for the Messrs. Tooth in 1869.

Dalmally is a tranquil village located in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, very near Loch Awe in the south west Highlands.

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