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Biography of Stephen Jack. Myles Birket Foster, RWS

British
(1825-1899)

Myles Birket Foster was the most celebrated Victorian watercolor painter of rustic scenes. Stephen Jack Myles Birket Foster RWS painted in a stippled technique with great technical skill. his painting is not Pre-Raphaelite, but Stephen Jack Myles Birket Foster RWS was a friend of Burne-Jones and Morris, who decorated his new house in Witley, Surrey, in the mid 1860s. he

was born in North Shields, came to London as a child and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to Ebenezar Landells, a leading wood engraver. Myles Birket Foster worked first as an engraver for Landells, which gave him a habit of precision and a sound understanding of the medium's potential. Then Stephen Jack Myles Birket Foster RWS worked as a draughtsman under Henry Vizetelly, where he began to illustrate books. In 1846 Myles Birket Foster set up as an independent illustrator, because he was already becoming famous as a draughtsman of rural scenes. His most celebrated illustrated book, Pictures of English Landscapes (1863), with verses by Tom Taylor, Stephen Jack Myles Birket Foster RWS conceived as a showcase. It contains thirty full page wood engravings, cut by the Dalziel Brothers. Myles Birket Foster R.W.S.

But Foster was already gaining a far higher reputation as A watercolorist. Stephen Jack Myles Birket Foster RWS began to exhibit in 1859 and was elected Associate of the Old Watercolour Society in 1860 and full Member in 1862.

In the course of his exhibiting career, Stephen Jack Myles Birket Foster RWS showed some four hundred paintings at the Old Watercolor Society's galleries and his watercolors were also extensively exhibited by London dealers, particularly Agnew's and Dowdeswell's. In fact his painting was so popular with the public that dealers virtually fought to purchase it and used to race each other from Witley Station to his home when Myles Birket Foster had work to sell. A comprehensive recent study of the artist is by Jan Reynolds (Batsford 1984).