HENRY

See also:

• MOORE, A
• MOORE, ALBERT JOSEPH (1841–1893)
• MOORE, EDWARD (1712–1757)
• MOORE, GEORGE (1853– )
• MOORE, GEORGE FOOT (1851– )
• HENRY MOORE (1831–1895)
• MOORE, JOHN (1729-1802)
• MOORE, SIR JOHN (1761-1809)
• MOORE, THOMAS (1779-1852)

MOORE (1831–1895)  , English painter, the ninth son of William Moore, of York, and brother of Albert Joseph Moore, was born in that city on the 7th of March 1831 . His artistic education was chiefly supervised by his father, but he also attended the York School of Design, and worked for a short time in the Royal Academy Schools . He first exhibited at the Academy in 1853, and was a constant contributor to its exhibitions till his death . At the outset of his career he occupied himself mostly with landscapes and paintings of animals, executed with extraordinary detail in imitation of the prevailing taste of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; but in 1857, while on a visit to the West of England, he made his first attempts as a sea-painter . His success was immediate, and it had the effect of diverting hiq almost entirely from landscapes . Among his most important canvases must be reckoned " The Pilot Cutter " in 1866, " The Salmon Poachers " in 1869, " The Lifeboat " in 1876, " Highland Pastures " in 1878, " The Beached Margent of the Sea " in 188o, " The Newhaven Packet " (bought by the Birmingham Corporation), and " Catspaws off the Land " (bought by the Chantrey Fund trustees); in 1885, " Mount's Bay " (bought by the Manchester Corporation) in 1886, " Nearing the Needles " in 1888, " Machrihanish Bay, Cantyre," in 1892, " Hove-to for a Pilot " in 1893, and " Glen Orchy," a landscape, in 1895 . He was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1876, and a full member in r88o; an associate of the Royal Academy in 1885, and an academician in 1893; and at Paris, in 1887, where he exhibited " The Newhaven Packet " and " The Clearness after Rain," he received a grand prix and was made a knight of the Legion of Honour . He died at Margate on the 22nd of June 1895 . His works are marked by admirable appreciation of nature, and by a rare understanding of wave-form and colour and of the subtleties of atmospheric effect; and as a sea-painter he may fairly be regarded as almost without a rival .