Henry Moore - Artist Info

About Henry Moore

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Henry Moore of Hull
  • Biography

    Henry Moore RA (7 March 1831 in York – 22 June 1895 in Margate) was an English marine and landscape painter

    Moore was born in York, a brother of both Albert Joseph and John Collingham, and the pupil of their father, William Moore.

    Henry was educated at York and was taught painting by his father. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1853, and exhibited his first picture, Glen Clunie, Braemar, at the Royal Academy in the same year. He was a constant exhibitor at the Royal Academy from that time onwards. He exhibited at the Portland Gallery from 1855 to 1860, and at the British Institution from 1855 to 1865. It was also in 1855 that he sent the first of many contributions to the gallery of the So...

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