1874
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
View of Castel Gandolfo is a 1874 by Myles Birket Foster, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a calm lake with rolling green hills behind it. A small boat floats near the shore. Some ducks paddle in the water. Foster painted this in the 1870s. His work was detailed like Pre-Raphaelite art. But he left out their bright colors and odd subjects. People loved his peaceful scenes of rural England. This style reminds some of John Constable. Look up his paintings next.
In his watercolors, Foster depicted an idealized life in rural England. His work was appreciated as Pre-Raphaelite in its intricate detail, but was without the harsh color and unorthodox subjects that made the brotherhood controversial. Foster’s watercolors proved enormously appealing to the Victorians; each new work was eagerly anticipated, and color lithographs after his watercolors helped popularize his imagery. While the English countryside was the inspiration for much of his work, he traveled abroad regularly, and made several trips to Italy in the 1870s. A view of peasants picnicking at…
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Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a British illustrator, watercolourist and engraver in the Victorian period. His name is also to be found as Myles Birkett Foster.
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