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Harriet Jane Moore

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Harriet Jane Moore c. 1860s

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.

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  1. ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Hamilton, James (2001). Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scientists 1815-1860. A&C Black. p. 115. ISBN 9781902459103. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
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