The Old Chairmender

Details

Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
The Old Chairmender
signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
15¾ x 24 in. (40 x 61 cm.)

Provenance

with Rayner MacConnal, London.
with MacConnal-Mason & Son, London.

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Lot Essay

Birket Foster painted a series of watercolours on the subject of The Old Chairmender. A version illustrated in J. Reynolds, Birket Foster, London, 1984, colour plate E, illustrated opposite pl. 89, was printed by The Cavendish Collection and is in the Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington.

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