Edward percy moran biography of albert
Born in Philadelphia into an artistic family, Percy Moran established his reputation with genre scenes of children and rural life in colonial America....
Edward Moran
Born in England, Edward Moran is best known for his marine paintings, and is credited with the Moran family's entry into the art world.
His family immigrated to Maryland in 1844 from Lancashire, England, where his father was a hand loom weaver. Edward, who was one of twelve children, left home to work in a cotton factory in Philadelphia.
Albert was the son of Ernest Albert, a poor coal miner and cotton farmer from southeastern Oklahoma.
He impressed his employer with the large, wall-sized, sketches he did, and was encouraged to pursue art as a career. He and his brother studied and shared a studio in Philadelphia and then both returned for a time to England. While abroad, Moran was heavily influenced by the paintings of J.M.W.
Turner, which he copied and studied thoroughly.
In the mid-1850s, when Philadelphia was experiencing the peak of U.S. clipper ship production, Edward was influenced by James Hamilton, a prominent Irish-born marine painter, and also by landscapist Paul Weber.
This influence is clear in his painting, New Castle on the Delaware. In turn, Edward Mo