Modern Painting

<p>George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 - 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist short-story writer poet art critic memoirist and dramatist. </p><p> </p><p>Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra County Mayo. </p><p> </p><p>He originally wanted to be a painter and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day. </p><p> </p><p>As a naturalistic writer he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists and was particularly influenced by the works of Emile Zola. </p><p> </p><p>His writings influenced James Joyce according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann and although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.</p><p> </p><p> </p>