Moore, Albert Joseph
Albert Joseph Moore (1841-93) was born in York into an artistic family and as a painter became a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement. After beginning with Pre-Raphaelite and religious works, he shifted to decorative paintings focused on aesthetic beauty, often featuring classical female figures in diaphanous drapery. His “subjectless” works prioritised the harmony of form, colour, and composition over narrative or meaning, a style influenced by his friend James McNeill Whistler.
Moore was introduced to the circle around Edward Burne-Jones by Henry Holiday and Simeon Solomon, who were studying with him at the Royal Academy Schools. Through this connection Moore, Solomon, and William de Morgan, another Academy student, were commissioned by Morris, Marshall and Faulkner & Co. to design stained glass between 1861-66. Moore contributed the figure of Salvator Mundi for the firm’s 1864 window for Bradford Parish Church, now Bradford Cathedral.
Sources:
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Burne-Jones by Martin Harrison and Bill Waters (Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1973)