Thomas Edward Forster

Place: London

Born: 1677

Death: 1712

Biography:

Thomas Forster was an English portrait draughtsman and miniaturist. He is known from a number of small portraits in pencil on vellum, and according to Lionel Cust they are 'drawn with exquisite care and feeling'. The majority of these were no doubt intended for engraving as frontispieces to books, and the following were so engraved by Michael Vander Gucht and others: John … See moreThomas Forster (1676/7–after 1712; fl. 1695–1712) was an English portrait… See more• Bromley, Henry (1793). A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: T. Payne; J. Edwards; W. Otridge and Son; R. Faulder. pp. 216,… See more