BIRKET FOSTER
By H. M. CUNDALL, F.S.A.
Containing 91 full-page illustrations (73 in colour) and numerous thumbnail sketches in the text. Square demy 8vo, cloth, gilt top, price 20s. net.
It may safely be asserted, without fear of contradiction, that the dainty water-colour drawings executed by Birket Foster appeal to the majority of the British public more than the works of any other artist. He produced scenes from nature with such exactness and minuteness of detail that the most uninitiated in art are able to understand and appreciate them, but the chief features in his paintings are the poetic feeling with which he endued them, and the care with which his compositions were selected. He revelled in sunny landscapes with roaming sheep and with rustic children playing in the foreground, and in the peaceful red-bricked cottages with thatched roofs; it is, perhaps, by these scenes of rural England that Birket Foster is best known. He, however, was an indefatigable painter, and produced works selected from all parts of England, Wales, and Scotland; he travelled frequently on the Continent; Venice, as well as the Rhine, had its charms for him, and the picturesque scenery of Brittany has also been portrayed by his brush.
The collection of Birket Foster’s drawings reproduced in this volume is thoroughly representative, and is sufficiently extensive to include all phases of his work. The accompanying biographical text by Mr. H. M. Cundall will be found to be most sympathetic, intimate, and interesting.
A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.
GEORGE MORLAND
By Sir WALTER GILBEY, Bart.
AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE OF GEORGE STUBBS, R.A.”
Containing 60 full-page reproductions in colour of the artist’s best work. Square demy 8vo, cloth, gilt top, price 20s. net.
There will also be an Édition de Luxe, with letterpress printed on handmade paper, containing the earliest impressions of the illustrations, and limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, price £2: 2s. net.