Charles Amédée Forestier (1854 – 18 November 1930) was an Anglo-French artist and illustrator who specialised in historical and prehistoric scenes, and landscapes.
Forestier became known for his historical illustrations, especially his carefully researched drawings of archaeological finds such as prehistoric man. His drawings are notable for their attention to detail, a consequence of the need to convey a lot of visual information, with little accompanying text, in the popular illustrated magazines of the day.[2]
Forestier also worked for the Royal Ontario Museum and the London Museum, producing illustrations of Roman Life, and later had an illustrated book published on the subject – The Roman Soldier (A & C Black, 1928).
In 1922 his "Nebraska Man" drawings appeared in the Illustrated London News. These reconstructions, in collaboration with scientist Grafton Elliot Smith, were of a possible ape-like ancestor of present-day man, based on a fossil tooth found in Nebraska. However this drawing owed more to artistic imagination than scientific fact, and the find itself was scientifically insignificant, since the tooth was actually that of a pig.[4]
The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814 (1914)A Young Flemish woman (from Bruges and West Flanders)
Apart from his drawing, Forestier also painted in oils and watercolour. In 1914, he painted a depiction of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which was given to the American government in 1922 by Barron Collier and the Sulgrave Institution.[5][6] He died in Dulwich, London, on 18 November 1930.[7]
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