Moore, J. (McKechnie Section 1)

Drawn to my attention by Mr Graham Thomas, who had seen an example of his work, taken in Nottingham and dated 1836. Moore may have been one of several miniaturists listed by Foskett: J. Moore, who worked in Sheffield (in 1827), also exhibited at the Royal Academy 1827-37; a John Moore who entered the Royal Academy Schools on 18 November 1823, aged twenty years, may have painted a miniature (exhibited in South Carolina in 1936) of a Mrs David Lamb, Junior (née May Henderson, 1794-1833), signed on the reverse 'J. Moore pinxit 20, Mason Street, Liverpool, 1824'; J. Marchmont Moore, who exhibited at various art societies 1832-35; and a J. W. Moore (possibly listed in error for J. M. Moore) to whom the Royal Academy catalogue ascribes No. 828, exhibited in 1832.

The silhouette seen by Mr Thomas was a cut and bronzed full-length portrait of a woman, bearing on the reverse the stencilled words : J. MOORE/ Artist/ NOTTINGHAM.