Myles Birket Foster

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

Cliveden from Maidenhead Bridge, Berkshire

Signed with a monogram and inscribed below mount Cliefden from Maidenhead Bridge

Watercolour with bodycolour

12 x 15cm; 4¾ x 5¾in

Provenance:

J. Noble, 1882

Exhibited:

London, J. & W. Vokins, 14 and16 Great Portland St., Birket Foster Loan Exhibition, 1882, no.25 (part)

This is a view looking north from Maidenhead Bridge with the island of Bridge Eyot in the foreground and Cliveden House on the hill in the distance. Cliveden is an Italianate mansion 200 feet above the Thames on a hillside. The present house, the third on the site, was built in 1851 by Charles Barry for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and it is now a five star hotel.