Task 2: Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899)

Foster - born in North Shields, England - was an illustrator and watercolourist of Victorian landscapes.

After moving to London as a child he became an apprentice wood engraver, however he soon transferred his style to Landscape Draughtmanship and worked for many important periodicals including Punch.

He would later become a member of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and showed some 400 paintings at the Society's exhibitions.
Although best known for his paintings of rural England, he travelled extensively and painted along the banks of the Rhine, the Swiss Lakes and in Venice.

Foster normally signed his paintings with a 'B' woven into a larger 'F'.