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British (1825-1899) |
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| Birket Foster was born in North Shields in 1825 and began his career as an engraver, illustrating books and magazines such as Punch and the Illustrated London News. |
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| He began exhibiting his watercolours in 1859, and soon found and soon found recognition being elected Member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1862. He was subsequently to exhibit some 400 exhibit some 400 watercolours at the Society’s exhibitions. |
| He is perhaps best known for his scenes of rural life and the rural life and the English countryside, although his output demonstrates an extremely broad repertoire. Travels on the Continent in the 1850’s and 1860’s produced a large volume of scenes from European Cities, the Rhine and the Swiss Lakes, as well as a great variety of Lakes, as well as a great variety of Venetian subjects from simple studies of daily life to extensive views on the Grand Canal. |
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| Birket Foster was undoubtedly one of the finest
watercolourists of the Victorian era which won him many admirers as well
as imitators. His life and works have been well documented over the documented
over the years in many books and publications. His life story was
recorded in a book by H M Cundall published by A & C Black Ltd in
1906.
In 1984 he was the subject of another biography, Birket Foster, by Jan Reynolds and published by Batsford. |
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Examples of this artist’s work figure in many museums in the UK museums in the UK and overseas. |
