Haughton forrest biography of martin
Haughton Forrest
Australian artist
Haughton Forrest (30 December , Boulogne-sur-Mer – 20 January , Melton Mowbray[1]), sometimes incorrectly referred to as James Haughton Forrest,[2] was an Australian artist who specialized in landscapes and maritime scenes.
Biography
He was one of ten children born to a military family. His father, Thomas, was an equerry to Queen Victoria. It is not clear why the family was in France, but they lived there until , when the July Revolution forced them to leave.
Haughton forrest biography of martin luther Read Edit View history. Written by G R Garrott His landscapes as well as his seascapes were much sought after in every Australian State and also in New Zealand. Forrest was an equerry to Queen Victoria.After travelling a bit, they settled in Jamaica, where his father owned sugar plantations. He attended the Manning's School in Jamaica and continued at a military academy in Wiesbaden.[3]
In , he obtained a commission in the Honourable Artillery Company of London and later in the 31st Royal Monmouth Light Infantry.[1] After advancing to the rank of captain, he resigned his commission to take a civil service position with the British Post Office.
In , he married a widow, Henrietta Bunce (). They had two sons, one of whom died in infancy, and two daughters. Shortly after the wedding, they settled in southern England, where he sailed and began painting. There is no record of an education in the arts, so it may be assumed that he was self-taught.
Haughton forrest biography of martin lewis United States. Beattie, formed the first set of pictorial stamps produced in Australia. The extreme detail and exactitude of Forrest's technique gave his works a photographic quality which, in earlier years, some art critics strongly deprecated. Remarkably active even in the last years of his life, Captain Forrest retained a vivid recollection of many interesting incidents of his earlier days.In , perhaps trying to emulate his father's career as a planter, he took up a land grant in Kittoland, an English settlement in the state of Paraná, Brazil, but found the environment unamenable. The following year, he took up a similar land grant in northeastern Tasmania on the Ringarooma River.[3] He soon abandoned that enterprise too, moving to Sorell, where he held a number of municipal positions including Bailiff of Crown Lands, Inspector of Nuisances and Superintendent of Police.
In , he surrendered all of those offices and moved to Wellington Hamlets, a suburb of Hobart, to devote himself entirely to art.[1]
In , his views of Mount Wellington and Hobart, some based on photographs by John Watt Beattie, were chosen for Australia's first set of pictorial stamps.[1] In the course of an almost seventy-year career, he produced over 3, paintings in various formats and media.
His estate was very modest and it is only in recent years that interest in his paintings has revived.
Selected works
The Bridge at Corra Lynn Corra Lynn, Tasmania
The Queen of the South,
off Bruny Island4 pence stamp from depicting Russell Falls
The original painting
Strickland Avenue, Hobart, with Mount Wellington