Myles Birket Foster, Self Portrait, 1883. Creator: Birket Foster.

Myles Birket Foster, Self Portrait, 1883. Creator: Birket Foster.

3-080-232 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Myles Birket Foster, Self Portrait, 1883. Miles Birket Foster was raised in London and apprenticed to a wood engraver. During the 1840s he worked as an illustrator for periodicals such as 'Punch' and the 'Illustrated London News', but after a tour of the Rhineland in 1852-53 he taught himself to paint in watercolors and launched a hugely popular painting career.


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Creator
  1. Birket Foster, attributed to: British; English: Artist, painter, printmaker, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator
Subject
  1. Birket Foster: British; English: Artist, painter, printmaker, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator

Medium
  1. Oil on canvas

Picture Type
  1. Portraits
  2. Self-portrait

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3330x4000
File Size : 39,024kb


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  1. 3-080-232
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