Albert Joseph Moore (September 4, 1841 – September 25, 1893)

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Azaleas
1867-1868

Women in respite is a nearly constant theme throughout Moore's work. And the theme and the style he used created that soft languishment that makes for a very particular type of beauty. Also Moore in much of his art did not try to relay a message, so much as he tried to express his conception of a particular subject's beauty, which is not necessarily something you can say about certain of his fellow Classicists, such as Leighton

Apples
1875 

Seagulls
1870-1871

Dancing Girl Resting
1863-1864

Silver
1886

A Garden
1869