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Art by Albert Joseph Moore
Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), English decorative painter, was born at
York on the 4th of September 1841. He was the youngest of the fourteen
children of the artist William Moore of York who in the first half of
the 19th century enjoyed a considerable reputation in the North of
England as a painter of portraits and landscape.
In his childhood Albert Moore showed an extraordinary love of art, and
as he was encouraged in his tastes by his father and brothers, two of
whom afterwards became famous as artists -- John Collingham Moore and
Henry Moore, and he was able to begin the active exercise of his
profession at an unusually early age.
His first exhibited works were two drawings which he sent to the Royal
Academy in 1857. A year later he became a student in the Royal Academy
schools; but after working in them for a few months only he decided that
he would be more profitably occupied in independent practice. During
the period that extended from 1858 to 1870, though he produced and
exhibited many pictures and drawings, he gave up much of his time to
decorative work of various kinds, and painted, in 1863, a series of wall
decorations at Coombe Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Craven; in 1865
and 1866 some elaborate compositions: The Last Supper and The Feeding of
the Five Thousand on the chancel walls of the church of St. Alban's,
Rochdale; and in 1868 A Greek Play, an important panel in tempera for
the proscenium of the Queen's Theatre in Long Acre.
His first large canvas, Elijah's Sacrifice, was completed during a stay
of some five months in Rome at the beginning of 1863, and appeared at
the Academy in 1865. A still larger picture, The Shunamite relating the
Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens, was exhibited in 1866, and with
it two smaller works, Apricots and Pomegranates. In these Albert Moore
asserted plainly the particular technical conviction that for the rest
of his life governed the whole of his practice, and with them he first
took his place definitely among the most original of British painters.
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