Jacob More (1740–1793) was a Scottish

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painter.

Biography

Jacob More was born in 1740 in Edinburgh. He studied landscape and decorative painting with James Norie's firm. He took the paintings of Gaspard Dughet and

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as his models. By 1773 More had settled in Italy, and spent the rest of his life there; but he exhibited Italian landscapes at the Royal Academy in London in the 1780s. In 1787 he was visited by Goethe, who considered his work 'admirably thought out'. In 1791 he moved to

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. In Italy he rivalled

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; and he befriended Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). In Rome he enjoyed a high reputation, and was commissioned to design a garden for the Villa Borghese in the Scottish landscape style.

Some paintings on view in Britain

* ''Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1780),

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, Edinburgh * ''The Falls of Clyde (Corra Linn)'',

, Edinburgh ( a painting previously owned by

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)The National Gallery of Scotland
accessed May 2010 * ''Bonnington Lynn'',

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, Cambridge * ''Falls of the Clyde'',

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, London * ''The Good Samaritan'', McManus Gallery, Dundee

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:More, Jacob 1740 births 1793 deaths 18th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters Artists from Edinburgh Scottish landscape painters

Biography

Some paintings on view in Britain

Further reading

References