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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. 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.

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.

On the 16th June Captain Haughton Forrest was appointed Superintendent of Police and Inspector of Stock for the Rural Municipality of Sorell, Examiner of.

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. The following year, he took up a similar land grant in northeastern Tasmania on the Ringarooma River.

In , he surrendered all of those offices and moved to Wellington Hamlets, a suburb of Hobart , to devote himself entirely to art.

This is a photo on the glass itself of the Hobart Town waterfront and Mount Wellington taken by John Watt Beattie of a painting by Haughton Forrest.

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. His estate was very modest and it is only in recent years that interest in his paintings has revived. Contents move to sidebar hide.