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C1779
Capt: Tho’s Forrest.
Artist:
John Keyse Sherwin (1751 - 1790)
Rare portrait of Captain Thomas Forrest seated with a chart in front of him and native sailing craft behind him. Forrest worked for the British East India Company and by 1762 he was in command of a Company ship. In … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Capt: Tho’s Forrest.
Date:
C1779
Artist:
John Keyse Sherwin (1751 - 1790)
Engraver:
Sharp
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
183mm
x 255mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1779
Description:
Rare portrait of Captain Thomas Forrest seated with a chart in front of him and native sailing craft behind him.
Forrest worked for the British East India Company and by 1762 he was in command of a Company ship. In 1770 he was engaged in forming the new settlement at Balambangan which had been recommended by Alexander Dalrymple, and in 1774 led an exploring mission in the direction of New Guinea. He sailed on 9 December in the Tartar, a garay boat from Sulu of about ten tons burden, with two English officers and a crew of eighteen Malays. In this, accompanied during part of the time by two small boats, he pushed his explorations as far as Geelvink Bay in New Guinea, examining the Sulu Archipelago, the south coast of Mindanao, Mandiolo, Batchian, and particularly Waigeo, of which his was the first good chart. Forrest reached Dorei Harbour, and returned to Achin (present-day Aceh) in March 1776.
Reference: Nan Kivell, Portraits of the Famous and Infamous 1970, p.113
From Forrest, A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan; including an Account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other Islands.
Artist:
John Keyse Sherwin (1751-1790)
Sherwin was an English portrait painter and engraver. He entered as a student of the Royal Academy, and gained a silver medal, and in 1772 a gold medal for his painting of “Coriolanus taking Leave of his Family”. From 1774 till 1780 he was an exhibitor of chalk drawings and of engravings in the Royal Academy. Establishing himself in St James’s Street as a painter, designer and engraver, he attained popularity and began to mix in fashionable society. His drawing of the “Finding of Moses”, a work of but slight artistic merit, which introduced portraits of the princess royal of England and other leading ladies of the aristocracy, hit the public taste, and, as reproduced by his burin, sold largely. In 1785 he succeeded William Woollett as engraver to the king, and he also held the appointment of engraver to the Prince of Wales.
