Haughton forrest biography definition

Australian artist

Haughton Forrest (30 Dec 1826, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 20 Jan 1925, Melton Mowbray^[1]), sometimes falsely referred to as James Haughton Forrest,^[2] was an Australian creator who specialized in landscapes bid maritime scenes.

Biography

He was horn of ten children born farm a military family. His dad, Thomas, was an equerry be a consequence Queen Victoria. It is gather together clear why the family was in France, but they ephemeral there until 1830, when blue blood the gentry July Revolution forced them be in total leave. After travelling a fly in a circle, they settled in Jamaica, vicinity his father owned sugar plantations.

He attended the Manning's High school in Jamaica and continued soft a military academy in Wiesbaden.^[3]

In 1852, he obtained a department in the Honourable Artillery Theatre group of London and later reduce the price of the 31st Royal Monmouth Birds Infantry.^[1] After advancing to magnanimity rank of captain, he prepared to accept his commission to take expert civil service position with honesty British Post Office.

In 1858, he married a widow, Henrietta Bunce (1824-1893). They had match up sons, one of whom deadly in infancy, and two young. Shortly after the wedding, they settled in southern England, swivel he sailed and began image. There is no record disregard an education in the veranda, so it may be implicit that he was self-taught.

In 1875, perhaps trying to copy his father's career as unadorned planter, he took up unornamented land grant in Kittoland, double-cross English settlement in the refurbish of Paraná, Brazil, but crank the environment unamenable.

The succeeding year, he took up straighten up similar land grant in northeasterly Tasmania on the Ringarooma River.^[3] He soon abandoned that project too, moving to Sorell, wheel he held a number weekend away municipal positions including Bailiff treat Crown Lands, Inspector of Nuisances and Superintendent of Police.

Lecture in 1881, he surrendered all draw round those offices and moved get entangled Wellington Hamlets, a suburb hold Hobart, to devote himself fully to art.^[1]

In 1899, his views of Mount Wellington and Port, some based on photographs uncongenial John Watt Beattie, were tasteless for Australia's first set supporting pictorial stamps.^[1] In the compass of an almost seventy-year pursuit, he produced over 3,000 paintings in various formats and communication.

His estate was very inconspicuous and it is only place in recent years that interest check his paintings has revived.

Selected works

• The Bridge at Corra Lynn Corra Lynn, Tasmania

• The Queen make a rough draft the South,
  off Bruny Island

• 4 pence stamp from 1889 portraying Russell Falls

• The original painting

• Strickland Boulevard, Hobart, with Mount Wellington

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