Agnes Freda Forres

Forres was born in Weybridge in Surrey.^[1] 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.^[2] In 1912 she married Sir Archibald Williamson, a politician and businessman who became Lord Forres.^[2] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] Between 1926 and 1938 Forres exhibited five works at the Royal Academy in London.^[2][1]

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.^[2] 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.^[2]

• The Dictionary of British Women Artists by Sara Gray (2009), The Lutterworth Press, ISBN 978-0718830847