19th Century nocturne of a coastal seascape, oil on canvas by Henry Moore. Excellent quality and condition extensive coastal view of a moonlit seascape with a solitary ship in the distance. Excellent quality and condition, signed bottom right and presented in a gilt frame.
Measurements: 18" x 12" framed approx
Artist Biography
Painter, watercolourist, engraver. Fishing scenes, interiors, landscapes with figures, landscapes, seascapes.
Henry Moore was the son and pupil of the portrait painter William Moore and the brother of Albert and Edwin. He went to London in 1853, where he studied at the Royal Academy School, but like his brothers, he found the official teaching hard to tolerate. He exhibited in London from 1853, and went on to feature frequently at the Royal Academy, the Suffolk Street Gallery, the British Institution and the Grosvenor Gallery. He was appointed an associate of the Royal Academy in 1885 and a member in 1892. He was also a member of the Watercolours Society.
Moore began by painting interiors, then travelled, visiting France, Switzerland and Ireland, and around 1870, he adopted the genre in which he was to make his name: painting the sea in all its various aspects and different lights. When a bad storm was forecast, he would sometimes cross England in order to observe it. He is considered to be one of the best British seascape painters.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Birmingham: By Stress of Weather Driven; Abandoned; On the Moray Firth
Birmingham (Mus. and AG): The Newhaven Packet; Summertime off Cornwall; Rough Weather on the Coast, Cumberland (oil); Near Lossiemouth (oil)
Blackburn (Mus. & AG): Rough Seas in the Mediterranean (oil on canvas)
Bristol: By Stress of Weather Driven; Break in the Clouds
Glasgow: Tidal Wave at St Alban's Head
Harrogate (Mercer AG): Glen Clunie, Braemar Aberdeen (1853, oil on canvas)
Liverpool: Launching a Lifeboat; Seascape
London (Nat. Portrait Gal.): Self-portrait (oil on canvas)
London (Royal Academy): Summer Breeze in the Channel (1893, oil on canvas)
London (Tate Collection): Catspaws off the Land (1885, oil on canvas)
London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): four watercolours
Manchester (City AG): Cattle Fording a Stream (1862, oil on canvas); Arran (Across Kilbrannan Sound) (1894, oil on canvas)
Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Marine (1887, oil on canvas)
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