Jacob More
Illustration — Self-portrait, 1783, Uffizi • Illustration — The Falls of Clyde (Corra Linn) Jacob More (1740–1793) was a Scottish landscape painter.
Also recorded as Jacopo Moore · Jacob Moor · James, I Moore · James More
Jacob More
Jacob More · Paysages d’Italie: les peintres du plein air (1780- 1830): Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 3 avril-9 juillet 2001, Centro internazionale d’arte e di cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantoue, 1er s · Public domain
- Born
- 1740 · Edinburgh.
- Died
- 1793 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Occupation
- painter · architect
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Self-portrait, 1783, Uffizi • Illustration — The Falls of Clyde (Corra Linn) Jacob More (1740–1793) was a Scottish landscape painter.
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Jacob More (1740–1793) was a Scottish architect and painter. Born in Edinburgh, the architect died in Rome. Jacob More was a member of Edinburgh Cape Club and worked in Edinburgh, Florence and London, among others.
Languages used include English. Works by the architect are held at Art Gallery of South Australia, Fitzwilliam Museum and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, among others.
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The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Edinburgh, London and Rome. Work by Jacob More is recorded in the collections of Tate, National Galleries Scotland, Art Gallery of South Australia, Fitzwilliam Museum and National Gallery of Ireland.
Jacob More was born in 1740 in Edinburgh. He studied landscape and decorative painting with James Norie's firm. He took the paintings of Gaspard Dughet and Claude Lorrain as his models. By 1773 More had settled in Rome, and spent the rest of his life there; nevertheless, in the 1780s he managed to send Italian landscapes back to England for annual exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London. He was a close friend of Thomas Jones (1742–1803), and was one of the artists waiting at the English Coffee House for Jones's arrival in Rome in 1776. In 1787 he was visited by Goethe, who considered his work 'admirably thought out'. He was dubbed the 'British Claude', and 'More of Rome'. In Italy he rivalled Jacob Philipp Hackert; and he befriended Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). In Rome he enjoyed a high reputation, and was commissioned to design an 'English' garden in the grounds of the Villa Borghese.
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1740
Jacob More born at Edinburgh.
1793
Jacob More died at Rome.
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• Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii (1780), National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh • The Falls of Clyde (Corra Linn), National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (a painting previously owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds) • Bonnington Lynn, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge • Falls of the Clyde, Tate gallery, London • The Good Samaritan, McManus Gallery, Dundee
Oil painting on canvas, An Ideal Classical Landscape with Cicero and Friends, by Jacob More (Edinburgh 1740? Rome 1793), signed and dated: Rome, 1780.
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- 1.Francis W. Hawcroft "Travels in Italy' exh. cat., Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- 2.The National Gallery of Scotland, accessed May 2010
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- P. R. Andrew, 'Jacob More, Biography and a Checklist of Works', in The Fifty-Fifth Volume of the Walpole Society (1989)
- J. Holloway, Jacob More 1740-1793 (1987)
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