拍品 156
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Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
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Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)

A corner of the Piazza di San Marco showing part of the Cardinals' Palace, Venice

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Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
A corner of the Piazza di San Marco showing part of the Cardinals' Palace, Venice
signed with monogram (lower left) and inscribed indistinctly 'A corner at the p...' (lower centre) and further inscribed 'Corner of the Piazza di San Marco showing part of the/Cardinals Palace/Venice' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
6½ x 8½ in. (16.5 x 21.5 cm.)
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拍品专文

The present watercolour was probably executed as part of a commission for Charles Seely, M.P. for Lincoln and a wealthy corn-merchant. Seely commissioned Birket Foster to paint fifty watercolours of Venice as a result of having seen an example of his work at Agnew's. The commission fee was £5000, making it the largest commission he ever received and one he was working on from 1871-1877 (see J. Reynolds, Birket Foster, Frome and London, 1984, pp. 136-7). According to Reynolds (op. cit., p. 200) the collection was dispersed soon after 1928 with only two watercolours remaining in the family.