William Forrest (1805-1899)
Little is known about the life of William Forrest. He was Scottish – the British Museum records 50 George Street, Edinburgh as his address – Mackenzie states that ‘he seems to have worked in Edinburgh and London’.
His surviving prints reveal that he engraved landscape and biblical scenes after old master painters and his contemporaries; his engraving of Loch Ness and Castle Urquhart after John Fleming, right, being a typical example.
Collections
British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Royal Academy, London
Royal Collection Trust
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Literature
Mackenzie, I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Little is known about the life of William Forrest. He was Scottish – the British Museum records 50 George Street, Edinburgh as his address – Mackenzie states that ‘he seems to have worked in Edinburgh and London’.
His surviving prints reveal that he engraved landscape and biblical scenes after old master painters and his contemporaries; his engraving of Loch Ness and Castle Urquhart after John Fleming, right, being a typical example.
Collections
British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Royal Academy, London
Royal Collection Trust
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Literature
Mackenzie, I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Our full selection of antique prints can be viewed here.