George Moore
(1852-1933), NovelistSitter in 8 portraits
Born in Ireland, he moved to France where he studied painting and published his first book of verse, Flowers of Passion, in 1878. In 1880 he moved to London where he published several novels. He was art critic of The Speakerand the author of Modern Painting (1893). He returned to Ireland in 1899 where he became involved in the development of the Irish National Theatre and published two collections of short stories. He is credited as the first English novelist to break away from the content, structure, techniques, and style of the Victorian novelists towards a more naturalistic realism. His short stories influenced the early writings of James Joyce.
by Sir William Orpen
pencil
NPG 2565
by Henry Tonks
pencil, published 1901
NPG 4154
by Henry Tonks
pastel, circa 1920
NPG 2807
by Francis Dodd
pencil, 1932
NPG 2673
by L. Godon
plaster cast of death-mask, 1933
NPG 2622
by Alvin Langdon Coburn
photogravure, 23 January 1908
NPG Ax7785
George Moore ('Men of the Day. No. 670.')
by Walter Richard Sickert
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 21 January 1897
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Mary Pierse
11 June 2020, 09:02
The sketch of George Moore that you attribute to Sir Lesley Ward was actually done by Walter Sickert. If you check other sketches by Sickert in your collection, you will see that he signs them Sic.