Henry Moore (painter)

Henry Moore ( born March 7, 1831 in York, † 22 June 1895 in Margate ) was an English landscape and marine painter.

Life

Henry Moore was the older brother of Albert Joseph Moore. He began his training first under his father, William Moore (1790-1851) at the York School of Design, which was founded by William Etty. He then attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London. His artistic career began as animal and landscape painter with views of the Lake District, Devon, Surrey, Yorkshire, Wales and Chamonix, not least from Scotland.

Some of his works from this first time show the influence of Präraffaelitismus, however, Moore turned in the late 1850s almost completely to the Marine painting, for which he is best known today. For his seascapes, he spent weeks on the big yachts of friends, to paint the sea off Dover and off the coasts of Cornwall, Ireland and Scotland. With regard to the representation of the wave motion, the realistic reproduction of color, textures and atmospheric effects, is hardly equal.

In 1880 he was elected a full member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours.

Moore was a pugnacious personality, which perhaps contributed to that membership in the Royal Academy, he was only plotted when there was no doubt about its importance as a leading marine painters of England next to John Brett ( 1831-1902 ). He won several awards, including the Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition of 1889 for the image "Clear Shining after Rain ". For this he was awarded the Legion of Honour.

Some important works

  • " The Pilot Cutter" 1866
  • " The Salmon Poachers " 1869
  • " The Lifeboat " in 1876,
  • " Highland Pastures " in 1878,
  • " The Beached margent of the Sea" in 1880,
  • "The Newhaven Packet " in 1885 ( purchased by the Birmingham Corporation)
  • " Catspaws off the Land" in 1885 ( purchased by the Chantrey Fund Trustees )
  • "Mount 's Bay " in 1886 ( purchased by the Manchester Corporation)
  • " Nearing the Needles " in 1888,
  • " Machrihanish Bay, Cantyre, " 1892,
  • " Hove -to for a pilot " in 1893,
  • " Glen Orchy, " a landscape
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