FORRESTER, James
(b. 1730 Dublin, d. 1776 Roma)
Irish painter. He was a pupil of Robert West (died 1770) in the school in George’s Lane, Dublin in 1747, and received premiums from the Dublin Society in that year and in 1750. In 1752 he won the first prize for drawing in the annual competition in the school. He settled in Rome in 1755 and spent the last twenty years of his life there.
In 1761 he sent a large landscape to the Royal Academy. In 1765 he sent three landscapes to the Society of Artists in Dublin.
