Mr Forbs b. c.1820

Also known as Robert Forbes
  • Artist (Painter)
A portrait and house painter, presumably Robert Forbes, who worked in Rundle Street, Adelaide in the 1860s. Forbs died at Port Adelaide on 6 June 1868.

portrait and house painter, was listed as a portrait painter of Rundle Street, Adelaide (South Australia) in Lewis’s Adelaide Almanack for 1862. He was presumably Robert Forbes, a Scot whose normal trade appears to have been 'painter’ (i.e. house painter). Robert Forbes arrived in 1860 aboard the Grand Trianon , accompanied by his wife Catherine and several children. He died at Port Adelaide on 6 June 1868.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
1989