Sale 7856
London
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16 June 2010
Price realised
GBP 8,750
Estimate
Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899) On the River Spean, Inverness-shire, Scotland signed with monogram (lower right) and signed and inscribed 'On the River Spean/Birket Foster/Braeside/Weybridge' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard) pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour on paper 7 5/8 x 9½ in. (19.3 x 24.2 cm.)
Provenance
with Agnew's, London.
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Exhibited
London, Royal Watercolour Society, Winter 1898-9, number untraced.
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