Forbes is identified as a designer for Rodriquez Fabrics, Melbourne, illustrated in Colin Barrie, Design, Arts in Australia series, Longmans, 1962. His package design work ...
A Melbourne photographer who exhibited a set of photographs of colonial scenery, coloured by George Alexander Gilbert, at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition.
A sketcher, harbour master and godson of the eminent cartoonist George Cruikshank, he made pen and ink and watercolour sketches of Fremantle and Rottnest Island.