George Moore bequeathed Thomas Wyatt’s portrait of his grandfather (oil on canvas, 1830) to the National Gallery of Ireland. He wrote about it in Chapter 19 of Conversations in Ebury Street (1924). An impression of the picture hung in the background of William Orpen’s portrait of George Moore in 1903, correctly implying that the contrarian modernist writer was a self-conscious product of family and tradition.
Welcome to the interactive Iconography of George Moore, edited by Robert Becker. The People galleries present pictures of George Moore and others. The Places galleries show where he lived and visited. The Illustrations gallery gathers pictures that cropped up in and from his canon.
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