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Albert Moore

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Albert Moore, by Sydney Prior Hall, 1887 -NPG 2375 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Albert Moore

by Sydney Prior Hall
Pencil on paper, 1887
4 1/8 in. x 6 3/4 in. (106 mm x 172 mm)
NPG 2375

Inscriptionback to top

Inscr. lower left: ‘Albert Moore?’;
and lower right: ‘ –87’.
On back some rough pencil markings and inscr.: ‘10’.

This portraitback to top

One of a large number of drawings and sketches by Sydney Prior Hall acquired from his heirs, this work is only conjecturally identified as depicting Albert Moore. It is, however, rather similar in aspect to a photograph first engraved in 1885 (see ‘All known portraits, Photographs, c.1885 [b]’) [1] and indeed was possibly drawn from an illustration; Hall is not known to have been acquainted with the reclusive Moore, of whom very few portraits were made. From his appearance this likeness seems to date from the 1880s, but the pencilled figure ‘87’ is not secure evidence for a specific year.

Like the photograph, the sketch captures Moore’s slow, seeming melancholic character. It also incidentally portrays a protruding (exophthalmic) eyeball. According to his pupil, Walford Graham Robertson, Moore ‘had the eyes of a dog; beautiful, tender eyes which could light up with a brilliant smile which never reached the lips’ .[2]

Dr Jan Marsh

Footnotesback to top

1) MA 1885, p.192.
2) Robertson 1931, p.59.

Physical descriptionback to top

Head-and-shoulders, near-profile to left, with heavy beard.

Conservationback to top

Inspected 19.10.06

Provenanceback to top

With the artist and his heirs, from whom purchased.

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