Amédée Forestier

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Amédée Forestier
A drawing of Forestier from The Sketch, 12 February 1896
Born
Charles Amédée Forestier

1854 (1854)
Paris, Second French Empire
Died18 November 1930(1930-11-18) (aged 75–76)
Dulwich, London, England
EducationBeaux-Arts de Paris

Charles Amédée Forestier (1854 – 18 November 1930) was an Anglo-French artist and illustrator who specialised in historical and prehistoric scenes, and

landscapes
.

Life and work

Illustrated London News

Forestier was born in

Windsor Magazine, for the novels of several authors including Walter Besant, and for various travel books by A & C Black.[1]

Forestier became known for his historical illustrations, especially his carefully researched drawings of archaeological finds such as prehistoric man. His drawings are notable for their attention to detail, a consequence of the need to convey a lot of visual information, with little accompanying text, in the popular illustrated magazines of the day.[2]

In December 1911, a series of his drawings (accompanying text by

Illustrated London News, depicting scenes of everyday life in an Iron Age village near present-day Glastonbury – "Glastonbury Lake Village". These scenes were widely reproduced and seen as influential in shaping public perceptions of prehistory at the time.[3]

Nebraska Man (1922)

Forestier also worked for the Royal Ontario Museum and the London Museum, producing illustrations of Roman Life, and later had an illustrated book published on the subject – The Roman Soldier (A & C Black, 1928).

In 1922 his "Nebraska Man" drawings appeared in the Illustrated London News. These reconstructions, in collaboration with scientist Grafton Elliot Smith, were of a possible ape-like ancestor of present-day man, based on a fossil tooth found in Nebraska. However this drawing owed more to artistic imagination than scientific fact, and the find itself was scientifically insignificant, since the tooth was actually that of a pig.[4]

The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814 (1914)
A Young Flemish woman (from Bruges and West Flanders)

Apart from his drawing, Forestier also painted in

watercolour. In 1914, he painted a depiction of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which was given to the American government in 1922 by Barron Collier and the Sulgrave Institution.[5][6] He died in Dulwich, London, on 18 November 1930.[7]

Books (selected)

Illustrated by Forestier

Written and illustrated by Forestier

  • The Roman Soldier: some illustrations representative of Roman military life with special reference to Britain (A & C Black, 1928)

Notes

  1. ^ Smiles & Moser. p. 76.
  2. ^ Smiles & Moser. pp. 77 & 79.
  3. ^ Smiles & Moser. Chapter 4: "To make the dry bones live...".
  4. ^ Creationist Arguments: Nebraska Man.
  5. ^ Armes, Ethel (1922). The Washington Manor House: England's Gift to the World. American Branch of the Sulgrave Institution. p. 33. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  6. ISBN 9780674691520
    . Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  7. ^ National Probate Calendar Index of Wills and Administrations, 1930 D-G. p. 341.

Further reading

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