Live Auction 7728Victorian and British Impressionist Pictures including Drawings and Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 16

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

The Hay Wain

Closed4 June 2009

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GBP 70,850

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Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899)
The Hay Wain
signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and heightened with bodycolour
21 7/8 x 32¾ in. (55.6 x 83.2 cm.)

The Property of P. J. Dearden; Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1973, lot 29.
with Richard Green, London.

Specialist note

Birket Foster was popular for his sentimental rustic scenes of everyday Victorian life. The current lot depicts farm labourers collecting the hay. A hay wain dominates the centre of the composition. To the left of the foreground children play and to the right a mother and her baby rest in the shadow of a tree. A rural arcadia is laid out under the blue sky of a late summer day.