Adam's IRISH OLD MASTERS 5th November 2024

Irish Old Masters| 5 November 2024 www.adams.ie 43 34 CHARLES FORREST (C.1753-1787) Portrait of a Lady Signed and dated ‘C. Forrest 1776’ Watercolour on ivory Oval, 4.6cm high, 3.9cm wide Set in a finely chased gold locket Forrest entered the Society Schools in 1765 where he was a classmate of Henry Tresham (c.1751-1814), with Thomas Rob - erts (1748-77) being his senior by two years and Robert Healy a year his junior. In 1772 he was awarded a premium of five pounds from the Dublin Society for a drawing in chalk of the type in which he would specialize and already in the previous year he had started to exhibit with the Society of Artists in Ireland, sending portrait drawings, described as in chalk or crayons. When he started to exhibit Forrest was living in St Kevan’s Port (now Camden Street), but the following year he moved to 1 Dame Street, where his neighbour at No 2 was Roberts; Healy had lived at No. 2, before his untimely death. In addition to his charcoal drawing, Forrest was an accomplished miniature painter. In 1780 he exhibited thirteen miniatures at the Society of Artist, however very few examples of his work in this medium survive. € 500 - 700