Harriet Jane Moore

Watercolour artist

Harriet Jane Carrick Moore (1801 – 6 March 1884)^[1] was a British watercolour artist who is best known for her drawings of Michael Faraday's work at the Royal Institution. She documented his apartment, study, and laboratory in a series of watercolour paintings in the early 1850s. Letters between Faraday and Moore survive at the Institution of Engineering and Technology. She, and her family, were close with the Swiss-born artist Henry Fuseli.^[2]

She was the eldest of the five children of James Carrick Moore (1762–1860) and Harriet Henderson (1779–1866). She was the niece of Sir John Moore, a British army general in the Peninsular war,^[3] and the granddaughter of the actor John Henderson.

Gallery

Michael Faraday's Study on the second floor at The Royal Institution, 1850–55
Michael Faraday in his laboratory. c. 1850s
Michael Faraday's flat at the Royal Institution, between 1850 and 1855

References

^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
^ Pressly, William L. (2007). The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare's "fine Frenzy" in Late-eighteenth-century British Art. Associated University Presse. p. 214. ISBN 9780874139853. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
^ Hamilton, James (2001). Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scientists 1815-1860. A&C Black. p. 115. ISBN 9781902459103. Retrieved 9 July 2017.