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Agnes Freda Forres

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The Lady Forres
Born
Agnes Freda Herschell

9 October 1881
Died5 May 1942(1942-05-05) (aged 60)
Green Park, London
NationalityBritish
Known forSculpture

Agnes Freda Forres, Baroness Forres (née Herschell; 9 October 1881 – 5 May 1942) was a British artist known for her sculpture work in bronze and plaster.

Biography

Forres was born in Weybridge in Surrey.[1] She was the daughter of Lord Herschell, the British Solicitor-General and later Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and appears to have been educated abroad.[2] In 1912 she married Sir Archibald Williamson, a politician and businessman who became Lord Forres.[2] During the 1920s Agnes Forres spent three years in the studio of the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger, first as a pupil and then as a studio assistant.[2] In 1926 Forres exhibited a bronze bust portrait at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris and showed a plaster work there the following year.[3] Between 1926 and 1938 Forres exhibited five works at the Royal Academy in London.[2][1]

In 1930 Forres commissioned a relief sculpture, The Mocking Birds, from Jagger for her home in London and helped organised his memorial exhibition in 1935.[2] During World War II, Forres worked on a number of relief committees but died in May 1942 when she fell under a train at Green Park tube station in central London.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0902028553.
  2. ^ a b c d e f University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Lady (Agnes) Freda Forres OBE". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  3. ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 5 Dyck-Gemignani. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2 7000 3075 3.

Further reading

  • The Dictionary of British Women Artists by Sara Gray (2009), The Lutterworth Press, ISBN 978-0718830847