Children paddling

Details

Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
Children paddling
signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
8 5/8 x 13 5/8 in. (22 x 34.7 cm.)

Provenance

Barnet Lewis; Christie's, London, 3 March 1930, lot 237 (170 gns to Frost and Reed).
with Frost and Reed, London
with Agnew's, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 June 1999, lot 12.

Literature

H.M. Cundall, Birket Foster, R.W.S., London, 1906, pl. 46, illustrated opp. p. 176.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

There is a sketch for the present watercolour in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Barnet Lewis owned over 100 works by Birket Foster, including The Meet, one of Birket Foster's largest works, which was sold in these Rooms, Christie's, London, 28 November 2001, lot 17, for £215,000, a world record price for the artist at auction.

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