Myles Birket Foster, RWS, British 1825-1899- The Seaside; pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper, signed with the artist's monogram 'BF' (lower right), 16.5 x 12.8 cm. Note: Birket Foster was born in North Shields on the Tyne but was brought up in London. He took up watercolour painting after his 1852-4 tour of the Rhineland and became a member of the Old Water-Colour Society in 1860. In 1863 he moved to Witley and it was from then on that many of his charming watercolours of rural scenes, many including children and families at play, were executed.Please refer to department for condition report