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

Details

Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
Venice at Sunset
signed with monogram; pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white
5 7/8 x 8 7/8in. (149 x 225mm.)

Exhibited

London, J. Leger and Son, Feb. 1949, no.7

Lot Essay

Foster travelled extensively in Europe. He first visited the Rhine in 1852 and first visited Venice with F. Walker in 1868. He was commissioned to make a series of fifty views of Venice by Charles Seeley of Nottingham for a fee of ¨5,000

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