William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1890s.
NOW: £4900
Artist: William Gilbert Foster R.B.A. (1855-1906)
Title: 'The Conway Estuary from Deganwy'
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 30'' x 50'' (unframed size in inches)
Signed and dated 1894.
The models for the figures were used by him in some of his other landscapes during his Staithes period.
About William Gilbert Foster R.B.A. (1855-1906)
William Gilbert Foster was born in Manchester on the 9th May, 1855.
His father was a Birkenhead portrait painter who moved to Leeds and established a studio when Gilbert Foster was a child. Foster was educated at the Leeds Grammer School prior to recieving training at his father's studio. He taught art at his old school and then was appointed Under-Master at the Leeds School of Art. He also established his own studio and taught pupils privately. His most famous student was Owen Bowen.
He puchased a cottage in Runswick Bay, in 1890, and spent most summers there painting. He took his students from Leeds to the area for sketching expeditions and, like Thomas Barrett, was very supportive of the younger artists.
He had four daughters and a son. One of his daughters, Dorothea, inherited the family artistic talents and, at seventeen, had her first painting accepted by the Royal Academy.
He exhibited in all the major venues including Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy, where his first work was accepted in 1876. His paintings are in the permanent collections of several public art galleries including Kirkleatham, Whitby, Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull and Manchester.
William Gilbert Foster died in Leeds on the 3rd July 1906, at the age of fifty-one.
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William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1890s.
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Large Oil by Staithes Artist William Gilbert Foster R.b.a. (1855-1906)
