Lot 181: Double portrait of the children of Sir Thomas Gladstone, full-length, with carpentry tools

John Collingham Moore (1829-1880)
Double portrait of the children of Sir Thomas Gladstone, full-length, with carpentry tools
inscribed 'NO.2/'Children of/Sir Thomas Gladstone Bart/Painted by/J. C. Moore 25 Lower Phillimore Place/Kensington.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of white and with scratching out, arched
25½ x 15¾ in. (64.7 x 40 cm.)

John Collingham Moore was a competent landscape and portrait painter, but it is as a painter of children that he was most successful. He was tutor to his brother, Albert Joseph Moore A.R.W.S. (1841-1893).