St Michael's Mount, Cornwall
Myles Birket Foster (North Shields 1825 – Weybridge 1899)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1875 - 1880
Materials
Watercolour, pencil and bodycolour heightened with white on paper
Measurements
146 x 469 mm
Place of origin
St Michael's Mount
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 11714
Summary
Watercolour, pencil and bodycolour heightened with white on paper, St Michael's Mount, Cornwall by Myles Birket Foster (North Shields 1825 – Weybridge 1899), signed with monogram. Painted for Picturesque Europe (3 vols.1875/80) Myles Birket Foster began painting in watercolour relatively late in his career, in 1859, when he became associate member of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, after he had been well known for publishing drawings in the Illustrated London News and Punch and producing poetic illustrations such as for H. W. Longfellow's Evangeline and The Boy's Country Year book (1847). Like his friend and neighbour, Helen Allingham (1848 - 1926) he became known as painter of idyllic rural vernacular life particularly around his homes in Surrey. He did not often produce seascapes but another smaller dramatic view by him of The Return of the Lifeboat with St Michael's Mount in the distance is in the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford.
Provenance
Commissioned for Anthony Gibbs, subsequently purchased from the estate of the late Lord Wraxall with the assistance of the NHMF and donations from members and supporters.
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: On reverse, Frost and Reed No. R10065 Date 4.5.59
Makers and roles
Myles Birket Foster (North Shields 1825 – Weybridge 1899), artist