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Herbert Wilson Foster Art

British, 1846-1929

Herbert Wilson Foster was born at Endon, Staffordshire on January 18, 1846. His father was a pottery artist and Herbert too worked in the industry as a tile designer for Minton. While at school in Hanley, he won medals for his art work and at the age of 24, won the silver medal at the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. His talent won him a scholarship at South Kensington and he later went on to study in France and Belgium. Foster was a friend of George Heath, the Moorland poet who died at a young age and Foster drew the illustrations for a memorial edition of Heaths’ poems and designed his monument in St. Michael & All Angels Church, Horton. Foster lived at West Bridgford, just outside the city of Nottingham and married Rebecca Fisher from the village of Scarrington, Nottinghamshire. In 1891, Foster became a teacher at Nottingham Trent University, School of Art & Design and at his death in 1929, the principal said of him, "He was one of the most distinguished life masters in the country. He was certainly the best man we have ever had in that time. He was a brilliant student, and an exhibitor at the Royal Academy of Arts." Foster found time to exhibit his work at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1870–1899 these being genre scenes of daily life and his figures feature prominently in his paintings. He exhibited extensively between 1881–1917.

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Artist: Herbert Wilson Foster
Spring - Chalk design drawing for a Minton plaque by Herbert Wilson Foster
By Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER (1846-1929) Spring Inscribed with title beneath the mount Chalk, circular Framed Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in. (frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.) Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum. In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
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1870s Realist Herbert Wilson Foster Art

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Chalk, Pencil

Summer - Chalk Drawing Design for Minton charger by Herbert Wilson Foster
By Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER (1846-1929) Summer Inscribed with title beneath the mount Chalk, circular Framed Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in. (frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.) Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum. In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
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1870s Realist Herbert Wilson Foster Art

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