White Calm, and Kittewakes on their Nests (1858); Lifeboat (1876); Highland Pastures (1878); Calming Down (1879); Beached Margent of the Sea (1880); Kilbrennan Sound (1881); Calm after a Storm, Dirty Weather in the Channel (1882); Showers in June (1883); Off the Bill, Off the Lizard (1884); Newhaven Packet (1885), Birmingham Gallery. Home for a Rest, Queen of the Night (1885); Sound of Isla—after Sunset, Sunset after Storm, Before Sunrise—Scarborough (1886). He became a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1880, and contributed seven pictures to the exhibition of 1886. His two elder brothers, Edwin Moore and William Moore, are also painters; a third, John Collingham Moore, who died in 1880, painted portraits and landscapes. The five brothers have been represented simultaneously more than once at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy.—Academy (1886), i. 385, 403; Art Journal (1881), 161.
MOORE, H. HUMPHREY, born in New
York in 1844. Figure painter, pupil of the
École des Beaux Arts and of Gérôme in
Paris; studied under Fortuny in Madrid.
Visited Europe in 1865, painting in Munich,
Paris, Madrid, and Rome; returned to the
United States in 1875. Works: Almeh;
Blind Guitar-Player, Robert Graves, Tarry-*town;
Gypsy Encampment—Granada; Let
Me Alone! Judge Hilton, New York; Moorish
Bazaar, Charles Stewart Smith, ib.; A
Bulgarian; Moorish Merchant; Child of
Wealth, I. M. Scott, San Francisco; Moorish
Water-Carrier, Reverie, Good News, Mrs.
George Hearst, ib.
MOORE, JOHN COLLINGHAM, born
at Gainesborough in 1829, died in London,
July 10, 1880. Portrait and landscape painter,
brother of Albert and Henry Moore, pupil
of his father, and student of Royal Academy
in 1851. Painted portraits chiefly up to
1857; spent most of the winters from 1858
to 1866 in Italy, where he executed a series
of water-colour drawings of scenes around
Florence and in the Campagna. After 1872
he gave his attention principally to portraits
of children. Works: Olive Trees near Tivoli;
Yellow Tiber; Valley of Egeria; Shady
Sadness of a Vale.—Academy (1880), ii. 179;
Athenæum (1880), ii. 121; Art Journal
(1880), 348.
MOOSBRUGGER, FRIEDRICH, born at
Rehmen, Vorarlberg, Jan. 19, 1804, died at
St. Petersburg, Oct. 17, 1830. Genre painter,
son and pupil of Wendelin Moosbrugger
(1760-1849, Würtemberg court-painter), and
in 1821 pupil of Munich Academy; went to
Rome in 1827, to Naples in 1828, and having
returned home in 1829, set out for Russia
in 1830; was an artist of rare talent in
characterizing, of inexhaustible humour and
great facility of execution. Works: Invalid,
Dancer, The Comrades (1826); Improvisatore
in Bay of Naples (1829), Artist's Studio,
Carlsruhe Gallery; Groups of Robbers;
Roman Woman; Landscape near Civitella
(1830). His brother Joseph, born in 1814,
is a good landscape painter, and has also
painted several altarpieces.—Allgem. d.
Biog., xxii. 208; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1832),
210; (1833), 401; Nagler, ix. 444; Wurzbach,
xix. 67.
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MOR or MORO VAN DASHORST, ANTONIS,
born at
Utrecht about 1512,
died in Antwerp
between 1576 and
1578. Dutch school;
history and portrait
painter, pupil of Jan
Schoreel and afterwards
visited Italy.
On his return (1549)
the Cardinal Granvella
recommended him to Charles V., who
sent him to Madrid, then (1543) to Lisbon
and to England (1554). Afterwards entered
service of Philip II., whom he accompanied
to Madrid; finally returned to Brussels,
where he was much employed by the Duke
of Alva. His rare historical pictures are
not agreeable, but his portraits are remarkable
for truthful feeling, good drawing, mas-
