1830
29.92 x 24.8 in; 76 x 63 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed: T H Wyatt Pinxit [Thomas Wyatt]
National Gallery of Ireland; Wikimedia Commons
Bequest of George Moore in 1933
An impression of this picture hung in the background of William Orpen’s portrait of George Moore in 1903. It was published in Maurice George Moore, An Irish Gentleman (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1913), facing page 82. George Moore wrote about it in Chapter 19 of Conversations in Ebury Street (1924).
Undated, unattributed painting
From a monochrome photo published in Maurice George Moore, An Irish Gentleman (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1913), facing page 20; and in Joseph Hone, The Moores of Moore Hall (1939), facing page 110; colorized
George Moore the novelist’s grandfather, also named George (1770-1840), in 1807 married Louisa (d. 1860), daughter of the Hon. John Browne, sixth son of John, 1st Earl of Altamont; cousin of 1st Marquess of Sligo. She gave birth to George Henry Moore (the novelist’s father) in 1810.
This George Moore published The History of the British Revolution of 1688–9 (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817). His manuscript Historical Memories of the French Revolution is preserved in the National Library of Ireland.
Louisa’s cousin Denis Browne prosecuted her husband’s brother John Moore after the 1798 rebellion. That painful memory purportedly caused her mother-in-law Catherine to move from Ireland to England for the rest of her life.
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