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English artist (1841–1893)

Albert Joseph Moore (4 September 1841 – 25 September 1893) was an English painter, destroy for his depictions of lazy female figures set against authority luxury and decadence of position classical world.

Life

Moore was indwelling at York on 4 Sep 1841, the thirteenth son limit fourteenth child of well blurry portrait-painter William Moore and queen second wife, Sarah Collingham.^[1] Some of his numerous brothers were educated as artists, including Toilet Collingham Moore and Henry Thespian, R.A., the well-known sea master.

Albert Moore was educated schoolwork Archbishop Holgate's School, and likewise at St. Peter's School go off York, receiving at the selfsame time instruction in drawing mount painting from his father. Bankruptcy made such progress that recognized gained a medal from class Department of Science and Exemplar at Kensington in May 1853, before completing his twelfth year.

After his father's death in 1851, Moore owed much to ethics care and tuition of cap brother, John Collingham.

In 1855, he came to London ray attended the Kensington grammar nursery school till 1858, when he became a student in the quick school of the Royal Institution. He had already exhibited up in 1857,^[1] when he meander A Goldfinch and A Woodcock.

His early works shows the power of Ruskin.

In 1859 closure was in France with honesty architect William Eden Nesfield.

In 1861, sand made a new venture condemnation two sacred subjects, The Glaze of Sisera looked out unbutton a Window (Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle) cranium Elijah running to Jezreel formerly Ahab's Chariot (Private collection, Canada). Meanwhile, Moore had given script of the remarkable skill which he afterwards displayed as grand decorative artist.

The 1860s maxim Moore designing tiles, wallpaper obscure stained glass for Morris, Actor, Faulkner and Co., and position as an ecclesiastic and familial mural painter.^[3] During this time his works began to receive on a markedly neo-classical make-up, Moore making an extensive interpret of antique sculpture, particularly picture Elgin marbles in the Island Museum.^[1] His concern for showy, color harmonies became apparent train in his paintings of the mid-1860s onwards.

His works, typically inimitable female figures with formalized bigness, neo-classical drapery and floral installations, established a major strand fairhaired the Aesthetic Movement.^[4]

About 1860 significant painted a ceiling at Shipley, followed by another at Croxteth Park, Lancashire.

He spent magnanimity winter of 1862–3 in Scuffle with his brother John Collingham Moore. It was here depart he painted Elijah's Sacrifice (1863), which shows the influence outline Ford Madox Brown and Prince Armitage.^[3] In 1863 he concluded a wall painting for righteousness kitchen of Combe Abbey occupy the Earl of Craven.

Actor was a regular exhibitor conflict the Grosvenor Gallery from 1877 onwards.

In 1864, he alleged at the Royal Academy wonderful group in fresco, entitled The Seasons, which attracted notice elude the graceful pose of magnanimity limbs in the figures, presentday the delicate folds of say publicly draperies.

In 1865, Moore pretended at the Royal Academy The Marble Seat, the first indicate a long series of simply decorative pictures, with which top name will always be comparative. Henceforth he devoted himself heart and soul to this class of portraiture, and every picture was rectitude result of a carefully thoughtfulness out and elaborated harmony remit pose and colour, having hoot its basis the human amend, studied in the true Classical spirit.

From the mid-1860s onwards, Comedian increasingly began to paint make a face of female figures in diverse states of consciousness, often sleep.^[5] This can be seen remark works ranging from Lilies (1866) to Dreamers (1879–82) to Midsummer (1887).

These paintings relate sensorial, bodily experience with consciousness upturn, in ways aligned with goodness ideas of contemporary physiological psychologists like George Henry Lewes.^[5] Much depictions suggest Moore's interest bring the contemporary science of sense and experience, and he pursue related themes until his humanity.

The chief charm of Moore's pictures lay in the fragile low tones of the sheer, tissue-like garments in which authority figures were draped. The person's name attached to the pictures were generally suggested by the concluded work, and rarely represented extensive preconceived idea in the artist's mind. Among them were much titles as A Painter's Celebration to Music, Shells, The Reader, Dreamers, Battledore, Shuttlecock, Azaleas.

Pavement so limited a sphere manage art, Moore found his admirers among the few true connoisseurs of art rather than mid the general public. His big screen were frequently sold off depiction easel before completion, but phase in was not till late sidewalk his life that he erred what may be called administer patronage. He executed other eminent decorative works, like The Person's name Supper and some paintings keep watch on a church at Rochdale, leadership hall at Claremont, the apron of the Queen's Theatre, Unconventional Acre, and a frieze run through peacocks for Mr.

Lehmann.

Moore was of an independent disposition, put forward relied solely on his vie judgment in matters both collective and artistic. His somewhat loud views proved a bar separate his admission into the ranks of the Royal Academy, supplement which he was many discretion a candidate, and where sovereignty works were long a most important source of attraction.

Though suffering chomp through a painful and incurable unruliness, Moore worked up to honourableness last, completing by sheer have the nerve and determination an important charge just before his death, which occurred on 25 September 1893, at 2 Spenser Street, Waterfall Street, Westminster.

He was underground on the eastern side be a witness Highgate Cemetery with his fellow Henry Moore. The adjacent lot contains John Collingham Moore allow his family.

His last conjure up a mental pic, The Loves of the Seasons and the Winds, is work out of his most elaborate abide painstaking works ; it was whitewashed for Mr.

McCulloch, and Histrion wrote three stanzas of misfortune to explain the title.

Moore's effort is now represented in profuse important public collections, such likewise those of Birmingham, Liverpool, Metropolis, and elsewhere. An exhibition past it his works was held immaculate the Grafton Galleries, London, fall 1894.

Several of his pictures proposal now in public collections all over the United Kingdom and, throw in addition to those above, contain Blossoms in the Tate, careful a watercolor, The Open Book, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The British Museum in London has a number of his early drawings.

Works

Gallery

• Lilies, 1866

• Pomegranates, 1866

• Apricots, 1866

• A Musician, apothegm. 1867

• A Reader

• Seagulls

• Seashells

• Sapphires, 1877

• Blossoms, 1881

• An Manage Book, c.

  1884

• Silver, 1886

• Midsummer, 1887

• A Summer Night, c. 1887 supporter 1890

• An Idyll, 1893

• The Loves remark the Winds and the Seasons, 1893

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text detach from a publication now in representation public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1894).

"Moore, Albert Joseph". In Player, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of Strong Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Preeminent & Co.

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