Esther Moore

Esther Mary Moore (6 November 1857–1934) was a British artist known for her sculptures, metalwork and jewellery.

Biography Moore was born in Burnley in Lancashire, one of the eight children of Mary Margerison and Henry Moore, who was a master spinner who employed over 900 mill workers plus a number of servants for the family home. After his wife died, he relocated the family to Hampshire and then, in the early 1890s to Bedford Park at Chiswick in London. Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were a number of other female sculptors including Margaret Giles, Ruby Levick, Florence Steele, Lilian Simpson and Lucy Gwendolen Williams. During her career Moore also designed silver and bronze panels, memorials and decorative jewellery, and she exhibited with the Society of Women Artists, with the Royal Scottish Academy, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at the Paris Salon. Esther Moore spent her later years in Devon and the Royal Cornwall Museum has examples of her sculptures.