George Belton Moore
George Belton Moore (1806–1875) was an English artist who specialised in landscape, architectural and topographical composition, and often exhibited his work at the Royal Academy and British Institution. He was an influential drawing-master and the author of books on the principles of colour and perspective. Birth and early career He was born in London on 24 March 1806, probably at his parents’ house on the corner of Rathbone Place and Oxford Street. His father, William Moore, was a funeral undertaker whose more noteworthy engagements included the clandestine burial of Joanna Southcott. He became a student at the Royal Academy and was reputedly also a pupil of Augustus Charles Pugin, under whose general direction he drew the interiors of Drury Lane Theatre and Westminster Hall, the western front of the Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen, and the nave of Saint-Ouen Abbey, Rouen, 1826–7. The influence of Pugin may be evident in Moore’s first exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1830 - a view of London’s Fish Street Hill, looking towards London Bridge, with detailed attention to the Monument and the spire of St Magnus the Martyr. He had spent time in Italy by 1833, and in the following year the architectural sketches