Background
Forbes, Edwin was born in 1839 in New York City. Son of Joseph C. and Ann Forbes.
Forbes, Edwin was born in 1839 in New York City. Son of Joseph C. and Ann Forbes.
Forbes was born in New York, studied under Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, and began as an animal and landscape painter.
During the Civil War, he was special artist for Frank Leslie"s Magazine. Many of the spirited etchings he drew during the conflict were later presented by General Sherman to the government. They are now preserved in the War Office at Washington because of their historic value.
After the war, Forbes painted landscape and cattle scenes, among which are "Orange County Pasture" (1879) and "Evening—Sheep Pasture" (1881).
He died in 1895 in Brooklyn and is interred in Green-Wood Cemetery.
In 1877 he was made an honorary member of the London Etching Club.