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 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.

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