Henry MOORE

Henry MOORE OM ARA, RA, RWS
1831
1895

 Born in York on 7 March, 1831 (GRO), and working primarily from London after studying at the RA schools. He had initially studied under his father at the York School of Design.

Stanhope FORBES's letters reveal that he was a visitor to West Cornwall in 1884. Moore was highly acclaimed as a marine artist in the 1880s and 90s for his very large paintings of the open sea, The restless ocean (1892, Brook-Hart) being an example. It was said that he could scarcely tolerate a boat, much less a stretch of shore; his joy was in the sea itself and its atmosphere.

He travelled and exhibited widely, though not as far as records show, in Cornwall. Between 1867 and 1900, he exhibited 15 paintings in the Paris Salons. He was interested in effects of light and weather upon coastal scenes, and his painting Off Dodman Head was included in the 1987 landscape artists' exhibition in 1987 entitled Looking West.

The artist died in Margate on 22 June, 1895 (GRO) just as Newlyn was developing its new Gallery.

media

Painter of landscape and marine subjects

works and access

Access to Work: Birmingham (L'ete en Cornouailles); Blackburn; Bristol; Glasgow; London (V&A)

exhibitions

Paris Salons 1867-1900 (15); extensive record (J&G)

 

memberships

ARA: (1885) RA: (Elected 4 May 1893) RBA

references

Bednar

Benezit

Brook-Hart

Chantrey Bequest list: Tate On-line

Crespon-Halotier; Forbes letters (1884)

Hardie (2009) Artists/Newlyn & West Cornwall p242, Col pl: A Winter Gale in the Channel (priv col)

Johnson & Greutzner (Exh list)

Newton et al Painting at the Edge

Looking West Exh Cat; (repr in Hardie 2009)

RA Directory [birthplace info incorrect]

C Wood Victorian Painters (Bibl)