William Gilbert Foster

William Gilbert Foster (9 May 1855 – 3 July 1906) was a British painter.

Senior member of the Staithes group of artists, he had a studio at Runswick Bay for many years. He painted landscapes and rural genre in oil and watercolours. Exhibited regularly at the British Royal Academy of Arts (forty times) and at the Royal society of British. The Staithes group or Staithes School was an art colony of 19th-century painters based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes, of about 25 artists who often worked in plein air.