Albert Joseph Moore

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Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893)
Albert Joseph Moore: The Shulamite (1864)
Albert Joseph Moore: Pomegranates (1866)
Albert Joseph Moore: Dreamers (1882)
Albert Joseph Moore: Midsummer (1887)
Albert Joseph Moore: A Summer Night (1890)
Albert Joseph Moore: The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons (1893)
Albert Joseph Moore: William Connal, Esq Jr, of Solsgirth (1883)

Albert Joseph Moore (born September 4, 1841 in York , † September 25, 1893 in London ) was an English painter of the late 19th century and an important exponent of academic art and aestheticism . Moore became known for his depiction of female figures in antique surroundings.

Life

Moore was the youngest of fourteen children of the artist William Moore, who enjoyed a considerable reputation in the north of England as a painter of portraits and landscapes in the first half of the 19th century . Already in his childhood Moore showed a great affection for art and decided early, encouraged by his father and his siblings, to pursue a career as an artist. Four of his brothers, including John Collingham Moore and Henry Moore, later also became artists. Henry Moore (painter) achieved high fame as a marine painter .

His first works on display were two drawings shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1857 . A year later, he enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools as a student, but after a few months he decided to go freelance. In the following years Moore created numerous paintings and drawings and was represented at several exhibitions. In 1859 he traveled to France together with the architect William Eden Nesfield, a son of William Andrews Nesfield . Between 1858 and 1870 he was also active as a decorative and church painter. In 1863 he created a series of wall decorations at Combe Abbey , in 1865 and 1866 the murals The Last Supper and The Feeding of the Five Thousand in St Alban's Church in Rochdale, and in 1868 the Temperapanel A Greek Play for the proscenium of the Queen's Theater in Long Acre.

At the end of 1862 Moore traveled with his brother John Collingham to Rome for five months and there, at the beginning of 1863, completed his first large canvas painting, Elijah's Sacrifice . It was exhibited at the Royal Academy two years later. In 1865, Moore and James McNeill Whistler met and became friends. During this time he also met Frederic Leighton . In 1866 the Academy showed an even larger picture of Moore with The Shulamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens . The two pictures Apricots and Pomegranates could also be seen at this year's exhibition .

Since Moore mainly worked with watercolors , he was elected an associate member of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colors in 1884 and exhibited regularly at the society. Although Moore had exhibited at the Royal Academy almost annually from 1857, he was never elected a member. Moore led a bohemian lifestyle in his Holland Park home , London, which he shared with many cats. The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons was his last painting, which he completed a few days before his death. Moore died at the age of 52 in his studio on Spenser Street in the Westminster borough of London.

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Albert Joseph Moore's early works such as Elijah's Sacrifice were shaped by the Pre-Raphaelites . In the mid-1860s, under the influence of Elgin Marbles , he turned to the classical style. His stay in Rome in 1862/63 could have made a decisive contribution to this change in style, as his works clearly show that he had dealt intensively with ancient sculptures . His works The Shulamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens , Apricots and Pomegranates are the first works that Moore created entirely in this style.

In the following years he specialized in elaborately and sometimes transparently clad female figures, individually or strictly arranged in groups. In these pictures, Moore avoided every narrative moment, instead endeavoring exclusively to make decorative arrangements of figures, patterns and colors. His art was essentially determined by classic subjects and academic execution. Moore was by no means an archaeological painter and did not try to reconstruct ancient life in his pictures like his colleague Lawrence Alma-Tadema . Rather, he lived artistically in the world of his own creations.

During this time Moore and Whistler influenced each other. Like Whistler, Moore was a colourist of great sensitivity, using his colors even more intensely. Moore and Whistler were soon among the leading figures of aestheticism. In addition, Moore was also an excellent portraitist, as his lesser known paintings William Connal, Esq Jr, of Solsgirth and William Moore Jr show.

His most famous paintings include:

  • The Shulamite (1864)
  • Apricots (1866)
  • Pomegranates (1866)
  • The Quartets (1869)
  • Sea Gulls (1871)
  • Follow-my-Leader (1873)
  • Shells (1874)
  • Beads (1875)
  • Topaz (1879)
  • Rose Leaves (1880)
  • Yellow Marguerites (1881)
  • Blossoms (1881)
  • Dreamers (1882)
  • Reading Aloud (1884)
  • Silver (1886)
  • Midsummer (1887)
  • A River Side (1888)
  • A Summer Night (1890)
  • Lightning and Light (1892)
  • An Idyll (1893)
  • An open book
  • The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons (1893)

Numerous paintings are now in public collections, including Blossoms in the Tate Gallery of British Art , A Summer Night in Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery , Dreamers in the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery , Beads in the Scottish National Gallery and An Open Book in Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington .

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