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Moore was born in York, a
member of an old Yorkshire family. His
father was an artist, his elder brother
Henry Moore
1831-1895, was the famous marine painter.
The family moved to London in the 1850s, Albert Joseph Moore trained initially at the
Kensington Art School, and subsequently at
the Royal Academy. In the 1860s he
traveled to Paris and Rome. Albert Joseph
Moore gradually
developed a style of aesthetic painting,
with carefully integrated, and subtle colour
schemes. He was amongst the most
painstaking of even Victorian painters, Albert Joseph Moore art starting with girl body studies, and
drapery studies, many of which were
subsequently worked up into finished
Albert Joseph Moore art. Like other Victorian painters,
many of Albert Joseph Moore paintings were set in ancient
Greece, or Rome. Producing genuinely
authentic ancient settings was, however, not
important to him, his aim was to produce
graceful, elegant Albert Joseph Moore paintings without subject.
In this the artist was entirely succeeded.
Moore exhibited at the Royal Academy for
many years, Albert Joseph Moore paintings were usually very
badly hung, a tradition maintained by
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery to this
day! Many mediocre artists of the day were
full Academicians, yet Moore, one of the
greatest and most original Victorian artists
was not even elected an Associate. Albert
Joseph Moore also
exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery. He
was for many years a friend of Whistler, a
tribute to his tact and forbearance, though
Whistler helped his friend whenever Albert Moore could. In the last few years of
his life
the artist worked in Tempera as well as oils. Moore
was an eccentric, sharing his life with his daschund dog, and an army of cats, which
effectively took over his home. |
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