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Style of Myles Birket Foster - Watercolour, The Conkers Match

Early 20th Century

A charming pastoral scene emulating the style of popular Victorian watercolourist Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899). Bears a monogram to the lower right. Well presented in an ornate gi...

A lively pastoral scene emulating the style of popular Victorian watercolourist Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899). Bears a monogram to the lower left. Well presented in a vintage gilt ...

An alluring and delicate 19th-century watercolour of a farmer tending to his sheep in the Cheshire countryside. The piece is vibrant and colourful, with some highlights finished wit...

A delightful rural scene by the British artist Horace Hammond (1842-1926). Well-presented in an ornate gilt-effect frame with swept rails and internal slip. Inscribed H. Hammond to t...

Beautifully executed original hand colored lithograph using gouache and watercolor. Scene in Surrey, England. Signedxwith monogram in plate lower left, Myles Birket Foster. Published by M. H. Long. Condition is very good. In original 2 inch wide birdseye maple antique frame with thick museum mat with gold innner edge. Overall 22 by 26 inches. Biography Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a popular English illustrator, watercolour artist and engraver in the Victorian period. His name is also to be found as Myles Birkett Foster. Life and work Foster was born in North Shields, England of a primarily Quaker family, but his family moved south to London in 1830, where his father founded M. B. Foster & sons — a successful beer-bottling company. He was schooled at Hitchin, Hertfordshire and on leaving initially went into his father's business. However, noticing his talent for art, his father secured an apprenticeship with the notable wood engraver, Ebenezer Landells, where he worked on illustrations for Punch magazine and the Illustrated London News. On leaving Landells' employ, he continued to produce work for the Illustrated London News and the Illustrated London Almanack. He also found work as a book illustrator and, during the 1850s, trained himself to paint in watercolours. His illustrations of Longfellow’s Evangeline and books of poetry by other contemporaries were a great success, and he quickly became a successful artist in watercolours. Birket Foster became an Associate of the "Old" Watercolour Society (Later the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1860 and exhibited some 400 of his paintings at the Royal Academy over more than 2 decades. Birket Foster travelled widely, painting the countryside around Scotland, the Rhine Valley, the Swiss lakes and in Italy, especially Venice. In 1863 he moved to Witley, near Godalming in Surrey where he had a house ("The Hill") built. Being friendly with Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, he had the house decorated and furnished in contemporary style, with tiles and paintings by Burne-Jones and Morris' firm, Morris and Company. The same year he published a volume of "English Landscapes," with text by Tom Taylor...

William Manners RBA – "Timber Wagon, Westmorland Road" Original Watercolour An attractive original 19th-century watercolour by William Manners RBA, depicting a horse-drawn timber wa...

An original Victorian watercolour by William Henry Vernon depicting a picturesque rural landscape with a cattle drover guiding livestock through the British countryside. Beautifully ...

Watercolor "Summertime" by William Lucas, 1872, England. Signed & dated lower right, W. Lucas, 1872. Depicting three children playing on a roller & gathering flowers, their cottage i...