Shipping off the Coast
Shipping off the Coast
Shipping off the CoastSigned lower right: Henry Moore 1882Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour39.3 by 69.6 cm., 15 ½ by 27 ¼ in.The son of the landscape painter, William Moore, three of Moore's siblings were also artists including his younger brother Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893). Henry entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1853 and exhibited his first picture that year. As Peter Nahum noted, Moore `was one of the first painters to try and observe accurately the movement and moods of the sea' (Peter Nahum, A Century of Master Drawings, 1995). He had a scientific interest in the form of waves and from the 1870s Moore spent several weeks aboard yachts owned by friends, painting and studying the sea.){kind=link}
Henry Moore, R.A., R.W.S. (1831-1895)
Shipping off the Coast
Signed lower right: Henry Moore 1882
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour
39.3 by 69.6 cm., 15 ½ by 27 ¼ in.
The son of the landscape painter, William Moore, three of Moore's siblings were also artists including his younger brother Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893). Henry entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1853 and exhibited his first picture that year. As Peter Nahum noted, Moore `was one of the first painters to try and observe accurately the movement and moods of the sea' (Peter Nahum, A Century of Master Drawings, 1995). He had a scientific interest in the form of waves and from the 1870s Moore spent several weeks aboard yachts owned by friends, painting and studying the sea.