Agnes Freda Forres

Agnes Freda Forres, Baroness Forres ( Herschell; 9 October 1881 – 5 May 1942) was a British artist known for her sculpture work in bronze and plaster.

Biography

Forres was born in Weybridge in Surrey. She was the daughter of Lord Herschell, the British Solicitor-General and later Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and appears to have been educated abroad. In 1912 she married Sir Archibald Williamson, a politician and businessman who became Lord Forres. During the 1920s Agnes Forres spent three years in the studio of the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger, first as a pupil and then as a studio assistant. In 1926 Forres exhibited a bronze bust portrait at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris and showed a plaster work there the following year. Between 1926 and 1938 Forres exhibited five works at the Royal Academy in London.

In 1930 Forres commissioned a relief sculpture, ''The Mocking Birds'', from Jagger for her home in London and helped to organise his memorial exhibition in 1935. During World War II, Forres worked on a number of relief committees but died in May 1942 when she fell under a train at Green Park tube station in central London.

References

Further reading

* ''The Dictionary of British Women Artists'' by Sara Gray (2009), The Lutterworth Press,

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1881 births
1943 deaths
20th-century British sculptors
20th-century English women artists
British baronesses
Daughters of barons
English women sculptors
People from Weybridge
Railway accident deaths in England