Masters in Art, Vol. 9

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Excerpt from Masters in Art, Vol. 9: A Series of Illustrated Monographs, Issued Monthly, September, 1908, Part 105, Moore Albert joseph moore was the son of William Moore by his second wife, Sarah Collingham. He was born in September, 1841. His father was an artist of very considerable ability, rather well known in the north of England as a portrait-painter. His mother, too, came of a family of artists. Indeed, they were all artists in this happy family, for his brothers Henry Moore and John Collingham Moore were both painters of more than ordinary ability. Henry Moore, in fact, was the best marine painter of his day in England. Albert Moore was a very precocious infant in the matter of art. It is te corded that he could draw before he could read or write. At all events, he began to draw very early, and there is extant a crayon drawing by him, a portrait of his father, which would not discredit a much older artist. Moore's father and brothers were of great assistance to him in his early work, though it is said that even at that time he was very independent in his judgment and never followed advice unless it appealed to his reason. His father died when he was thirteen, and his mother moved to London. Albert, although obliged to go to school like other children of his age, still managed to keep up his art work so much so that when he was sixteen he painted and exhibited a water-color. This was at the Royal Academy. About this time he entered the Royal Academy, but from his own account it may be guessed that he remained there only a few months. He said that he felt the red tape of the place bound him down and that he could not develop in such surroundings. After leaving this place he and some of his friends formed a club something like the famous Langham, where they might paint from the model and incidentally correct each other's work. Some of the members of this club were Frederick Walker, W. M. Richmond, Marcus Stone, and Henry Holliday. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.