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Myles Birket Foster #12,134Established

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personEnglish, 1825–1899

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Selected Works92

Museum Acquisitions

Art Institute of Chicago

Young Girl in an Orchard with a Basket of Fruit

Young Girl in an Orchard with a Basket of Fruit, 1850

Etching, retouched in graphite, on ivory laid paper

Cleveland Museum of Art

View of Castel Gandolfo

View of Castel Gandolfo, 1870

The Smithy, 1890

Watercolour on paper

Eel Bucks, 1890

Watercolour on paper

Relief print on paper

The Country Inn

The Country Inn, 1863

Lane Scene at Hambledon

Lane Scene at Hambledon, 1862

Watercolour on paper

Summer (Cows in the river)

Summer (Cows in the river)

In museum collection

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Myles Birket Foster, RWS (British 1825-1899) Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore

Myles Birket Foster, RWS (British 1825-1899) Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore

£1,400 ($2k USD)

Girl watering cattle

Girl watering cattle

The Lion of St Mark's, Venice; A Venetian Gondolier

The Lion of St Mark's, Venice; A Venetian Gondolier

Gathering wild Flowers

Gathering wild Flowers

The Primrose Gatherers

The Primrose Gatherers

River landscape at sunset

River landscape at sunset

Figures by the fountain in the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Figures by the fountain in the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Cottage at Wheeler Street, Witley

Cottage at Wheeler Street, Witley

Shelling peas

River scene with people loading hay barges and collecting water

River scene with people loading hay barges and collecting water

'Queensferry'

Venice from the Giudecca

Venice from the Giudecca

£112,500 ($149k USD)

£50,000 ($66k USD)

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

£40,000 ($53k USD)

£20,000 ($26k USD)

A girl in a conservatory, traditionally identified as the artist's daughter

A girl in a conservatory, traditionally identified as the artist's daughter

£10,625 ($14k USD)

For Sale

The Art Vault Gallery · Artsy

Watercolor on Paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy

Title Page for "Ellen Seymour"

Title Page for "Ellen Seymour"

Brown wash and graphite on wove paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy

An Evening Landscape with a Distant Cathedral

An Evening Landscape with a Distant Cathedral

Graphite on wove paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy

Illustration for Longfellow's "Rainy Day"

Illustration for Longfellow's "Rainy Day", 1850

Pen and brown ink with gray wash with white heightening over graphite on wove paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy

An Evening Landscape with a Hay Wagon

An Evening Landscape with a Hay Wagon

Graphite with touches of pen and black ink, heightened with white on wove paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy

An Evening Landscape with Tall Trees

An Evening Landscape with Tall Trees

Graphite with pen and brown ink on wove paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy

Lake in a Mountainous Landscape

Lake in a Mountainous Landscape

Graphite on wove paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. · Artsy

Children in a Cart

Children in a Cart

Watercolor on paperboard

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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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J. Paul Getty Museum · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 2012 · Accession 2012.73 · Drawings

Gift of Dr. Richard A. Simms

An Evening Landscape with Tall Trees

National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C., United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession 2009.70.120 · graphite with touches of pen and brown ink on wove paper

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

An Evening Landscape with a Hay Wagon

National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C., United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession 2009.70.119 · graphite with touches of pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache on wove paper

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

An Evening Landscape with a Distant Cathedral

National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C., United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession 2009.70.118 · graphite on wove paper

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Title Page for "Ellen Seymour"

National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C., United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession 2009.70.117 · brown wash and graphite on wove paper

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day"

National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C., United States · Acquired 2009 · Accession 2009.70.116 · pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash and white and cream gouache over graphite, with parts of the distant mountains drawn with a stylus, on wove paper

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Young Girl in an Orchard with a Basket of Fruit

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2004 · Accession 2004.91 · Etching, retouched in graphite, on ivory laid paper

Robert M. Chase Endowment

Lake in a Mountainous Landscape

National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C., United States · Acquired 1995 · Accession 1995.52.51 · graphite on wove paper

Gift of William B. O'Neal

Children in a Cart

National Gallery of Art · Washington, D.C., United States · Acquired 1988 · Accession 1988.20.14 · watercolor on paperboard

Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook

Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 1964 · Accession 1964.38.463M · Engraving

From the Estate of C.K. Ogden.

Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 1964 · Accession 1964.38.463P · Engraving

From the Estate of C.K. Ogden.

Summer Scenes by Birket Foster. A Series of Photographs from Some of His Choicest Water Colour Drawings. With appropriate Selections from the Poems of Aird, Bloomfield, Clare...

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1952 · Accession 52.647 · Albumen silver prints

David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952

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death

Myles Birket Foster dies

Jan 1, 1899

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birth

Myles Birket Foster born

Jan 1, 1825