Myles Birket Foster - Self Portrait 1883

Myles Birket Foster - Burnham Beeches

Myles Birket Foster

The Swing
signed with monogram (lower right)
watercolour heightened with bodycolour
27.5 x 41.5cm (10 13/16 x 16 5/16in).

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Ring a Ring a Roses
signed with monogram (lower left)
watercolour heightened with bodycolour
20.5 x 27cm (8 1/16 x 10 5/8in).


Sold for £18,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium

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The shepherdess
signed with monogram (lower right)
watercolour heightened with bodycolour
15 x 22.5cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8in).

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Myles Birket Foster - It was a July midnight / and from out A full-orbed moon…

from The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York, 1858

Myles Birket Foster - For in his heart, as in thy stream / Her image deeply lies.

from The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York, 1858

Myles Birket Foster - The Ruined Mill

Myles Birket Foster - Reed Gatherers

signed with the artist's monogram l.l.
watercolour
15 by 22.5cm.; 6 by 8¾in.

Myles Birket Foster - The Old Chairmender

Price Realized £31,250


signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with gum arabic, on paper
16 x 24 1/8 in. (40.6 x 61.3 cm.)

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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Myles Birket Foster - Children playing outside a farmhouse, a shepherd with his flock of sheep beyond

Price Realized £31,250

signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour, on paper
13½ x 28 in. (34.3 x 71.1 cm.)

Myles Birket Foster - The Church of San Simone and San Judi, Venice: The arrival of a train

Price Realized £22,500


signed with monogram (lower left and lower right) and with inscription 'S. Simone i S. Guida Apostoli. (The Arrival of a Train)' (lower centre, overmounted)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour, on paper
8¾ x 11 7/8 in. (22.3 x 30.2 cm.)

Commissioned from the artist by Charles Seeley, M.P. and by descent in the family.

Between 1871 and 1877 Birket Foster executed fifty watercolours of Venice for Charles Seely, a wealthy corn-merchant and M.P. for Lincoln, in which he captured diverse views of the vibrant and picturesque city. Seely had viewed Birket Foster's work at Agnew's and offered the artist the impresive sum of £5,000, the largest commission Birket Foster ever received. According to J. Reynolds the collection was passed through the family from father to son until it was dispersed soon after 1928 with only two watercolours remaining in the family (see J. Reynolds, Birket Foster, Frome and London, 1984, pp. 16-7).

A large-scale watercolour by Birket Foster of A market day on the Giudecca, Venice was sold in these Rooms, 10 June 1999, lot 32 for £69,700, the world record for a watercolour of Venice by the artist.

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Myles Birket Foster - The Old Chairmender

Price Realized £31,250


signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with gum arabic, on paper
16 x 24 1/8 in. (40.6 x 61.3 cm.)

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.

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=1&intObjectID=5451301&sid=94259890-b0ce-4b69-b0f5-38c9dc37555e

Myles Birket Foster - Children playing outside a farmhouse, a shepherd with his flock of sheep beyond

Price Realized £31,250

signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour, on paper
13½ x 28 in. (34.3 x 71.1 cm.)

Myles Birket Foster - The Church of San Simone and San Judi, Venice: The arrival of a train

Price Realized £22,500


signed with monogram (lower left and lower right) and with inscription 'S. Simone i S. Guida Apostoli. (The Arrival of a Train)' (lower centre, overmounted)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour, on paper
8¾ x 11 7/8 in. (22.3 x 30.2 cm.)

Commissioned from the artist by Charles Seeley, M.P. and by descent in the family.

Between 1871 and 1877 Birket Foster executed fifty watercolours of Venice for Charles Seely, a wealthy corn-merchant and M.P. for Lincoln, in which he captured diverse views of the vibrant and picturesque city. Seely had viewed Birket Foster's work at Agnew's and offered the artist the impresive sum of £5,000, the largest commission Birket Foster ever received. According to J. Reynolds the collection was passed through the family from father to son until it was dispersed soon after 1928 with only two watercolours remaining in the family (see J. Reynolds, Birket Foster, Frome and London, 1984, pp. 16-7).

A large-scale watercolour by Birket Foster of A market day on the Giudecca, Venice was sold in these Rooms, 10 June 1999, lot 32 for £69,700, the world record for a watercolour of Venice by the artist.

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Myles Birket Foster - The Story Book

Myles Birket Foster - A Dell in Devonshire