Myles Birket Foster, RWS, British 1825-1899- Two Venetian Canal Scenes: St Mark's and the Doge's Palace; and Santa Maria della Salute; the first pencil and watercolour heightened with white and scratching out on paper, the second pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper, each signed with the artist's monogram 'BF' (lower left and lower right), the first 18 x 37.5 cm., the second 18 x 36 cm., two (2). Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Birket Foster’s watercolours have almost come to define the modern image of Victorian England. He was born in North Shields on the Tyne though 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 the majority of his works were executed. He travelled widely, painting the countryside around Scotland, the Rhine Valley, the Swiss lakes and in Italy, especially Venice.Please refer to department for condition report