Haughton Forrest (30 December 1826,

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– 20 January 1925,

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), sometimes incorrectly referred to as James Haughton Forrest, was an

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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

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. It is not clear why the family was in France, but they lived there until 1830, when the

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forced them to leave. After travelling a bit, they settled in Jamaica, where his father owned sugar plantations. He attended the

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and continued at a military academy in

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.Brief biography
@ the Companion to Tasmanian History. In 1852, he obtained a commission in the

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of London and later in the 31st Royal Monmouth Light Infantry. After advancing to the rank of captain, he resigned his commission to take a civil service position with the British Post Office. In 1858, he married a widow, Henrietta Bunce (1824-1893). 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. In 1875, 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

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, Brazil, but found the environment unamenable. The following year, he took up a similar land grant in northeastern

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on the

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. 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 1881, he surrendered all of those offices and moved to Wellington Hamlets, a suburb of

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, to devote himself entirely to art. In 1899, his views of

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and Hobart, some based on photographs by John Watt Beattie, were chosen for Australia's first set of pictorial stamps. In the course of an almost seventy-year career, he produced over 3,000 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

File:Forrest-Bridge.jpg, The Bridge at Corra Lynn Corra Lynn, Tasmania File:Forrest-Queen.jpg, The ''Queen of the South'',
off

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File:4d Russell Falls.jpg, 4 pence stamp from 1889 depicting

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File:Forrest-Falls.jpg, The original painting File:Forrest-Strickland.jpg, Strickland Avenue, Hobart, with Mount Wellington

References

External links

More works by Forrest
@ ArtNet
The Forrest Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Forrest, Haughton 1826 births 1925 deaths Australian landscape painters Australian police officers 19th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian painters People educated at Manning's School