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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Art | International | Australian | Aboriginal | Including The Lucile Dahlstrom Fredrickson Collection of Hermannsburg School Paintings
• Sale Date:
  04 May 2020 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  6017
• Lot Description:
  Haughton Forrest
  (1826-1925) Britain/Australia
  A Gale off the Coast of North Wales
  Oil on artists board
  Signed lower right
  30 x 46 cm
  It depicts vessels at the north end of Cardigan Bay, the western shoreline of Wales. The mountains of what is today Snowdonia National Park can be seen quite clearly. Two of the mountain peaks (at 2 o'clock to the base of the masts of the principal vessel) are each surmounted by a flag on a pole. One flag can just be seen to bear a red depiction in the centre of a white area, the flag used by Wales in the 19th century. This illustrates the extent to which the artist was prepared to go in his accurate depiction of very small subjects. Ayling, G. The Forrest Project
• Notes:
  Haughton Forrest (1826-1925), artist, was born France, and his family forced to flee to Jersey, England, on the commencement of the French revolution in 1830. Haughton was subsequently educated in Jamaica, where his father had extensive sugar plantations, and at a military college at Wiesbaden, Germany. From 1858 Forrest’s life was spent on the Isles of Wight and Man and in southern England where he spent much time yachting and painting marine subjects, some of which were reputedly commissioned by the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII). In 1875 Forrest took up a grant of sixty acres (24 ha) in Parana, southern Brazil, but finding conditions unsuitable returned to London. Next year he migrated with his family to take up a grant of 100 acres (40 ha) in north-eastern Tasmania. Later he moved to Sorell where he obtained municipal appointments as bailiff of crown lands and also superintendent of police. in 1881 he moved to Wellington Hamlets, near Hobart. Forrest spent the rest of his life after 1881 fully devoted to his art, painting many fine marine subjects and landscapes. His output, which spanned some seventy years, and varied from small oils, painted on board, to large canvases. The marine paintings were usually of stormy scenes in which the vessels were meticulously detailed and the foam-crested breakers remarkably green and translucent. By contrast, his landscapes were peaceful, with mystical backgrounds of hazy blue or purple mountains. In 1899 Forrest's views of Mount Wellington and Hobart, in conjunction with the photographs of J.W.Beattie formed the first set of pictorial stamps produced in Australia.. Forrest died on 20 January 1925 at Melton Mowbray https://www.colvillegallery.com.au/collectors/haughtonforrest.php
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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