Mr Forbs b. c.1820

Also known as Robert Forbes
  • Artist (Painter)
A portrait and house painter, presumably Robert Forbes, who worked in Rundle Street, Adelaide in the 1860s. Forbs died at Port Adelaide on 6 June 1868.
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portrait and house painter, was listed as a portrait painter of Rundle Street, Adelaide (South Australia) in Lewis’s Adelaide Almanack for 1862. He was presumably Robert Forbes, a Scot whose normal trade appears to have been 'painter’ (i.e. house painter). Robert Forbes arrived in 1860 aboard the Grand Trianon, accompanied by his wife Catherine and several children. He died at Port Adelaide on 6 June 1868.

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1992
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