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Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893)

Aliases: Albert Joseph Moor

Professions: Figure painter; Painter; Commercial artist; Illustrator

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Biography: Moore

(b York, 4 Sept 1841; d London, 25 Sept 1893). He showed precocious artistic talent as a child and entered the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1858. His early work shows a Pre-Raphaelite influence common to his generation. The watercolour Study of an Ash Trunk (1857; Oxford, Ashmolean) is very Ruskinian in its precise handling of naturalistic detail. Moore made two visits abroad: in 1859 to France with the architect William Eden Nesfield and in the winter of 1862–3 to Rome with his brother John Collingham Moore. Elijah’s Sacrifice (1863; exh. RA 1865; Bury St Edmunds, A.G.), one of Moore’s earliest large-scale oil paintings, was executed while he was in Rome. Its biblical subject and sombre tone are typical of his output in the early 1860s and relate to the work of Ford Madox Brown and Edward Armitage. However, the picture is decorative rather than archaeological in mood and already reveals an interest in colour and drapery that characterized his mature style.

Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online

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