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EDWARD MORAN (1829–1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD MORAN (1829–1901)  ,
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American artist, was born at Bolton,
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Lancashire, England, on the 19th of August 1829 . He emigrated with his
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family to
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America at the age of fifteen, and subsequently settled in
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Philadelphia, where after having followed his
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father's trade of weaver, he became a pupil of James Hamilton and Paul Weber . In 1862 he became a pupil of the Royal Academy in
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London; he established a studio in New York in 1872, and for many years after 1877 lived in Paris . He was a painter of marine subjects and examples of his
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work are in many prominent collections . Among his canvases are thirteen
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historical paintings, intended to illustrate the marine
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history of America from the time of Leif Ericsson to the return of
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Admiral Dewey's
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fleet from the Philippines in 1899 . He died in New York City on the 9th of
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June 1901 . His sons (
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Edward) Percy Moran (b . 1862) and Leon Moran (b . 1864), and his brothers Peter Moran (b . 1842) and Thomas Moran (q.v.), also became prominent American artists .

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