Henry Moore (painter)

Self portrait

The Rainbow

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

Life

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

Some of his works from this early period show the influence of Pre-Raphaelitism , however, in the late 1850s, Moore turned almost entirely to marine painting , for which he is best known today. For his seascapes, he spent weeks on friends' big yachts painting the seas off Dover and 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, there is hardly any match.

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

Moore was a contentious personality, which perhaps contributed to the fact that he was only offered membership in the Royal Academy when there was no longer any doubt about his importance as the leading marine painter in England alongside John Brett (1831-1902). He won several prizes, including the Grand Prix at the Paris Exhibition of 1889 for the painting Clear Shining after Rain . For this he was awarded the Legion of Honor.

Works (selection)

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

literature

• Marcus Halliwell: Highland Landscapes - Paintings of Scotland in the 19th Century. Garamond Publishers, London 1990, ISBN 1-85583-001-9 , p. 82.
• Moore, Henry . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 18 : Medal - Mumps . London 1911, p. 808–809 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

• The Victorian Web
• Henry Moore at the National Portrait Gallery
• Painting by Henry Moore at BBC paintings
• “Storm brewing” - Christie's 2009 auction house