Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore

Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore (1 June 1853[1] – 2 April 1901[2]) was a British artist from Nottingham who flourished from 1876[3] until his death in 1901.

Moore initially earned a living as a lithographic draftsman,[4][5] until, at the age of 27, he was able to support himself as an independent artist and from about 1880, exhibited his work regularly at the Nottingham Castle Art Museum, the Nottingham Society of Artists[6] and at other towns in the region.

[4][12] Claude, his father and brother Reuben (more commonly spelt Rubens) Arthur were all praised for their scenes of Old Nottingham and captured many scenes of disappearing Britain, featuring country life and buildings of character,[13][14] working with line drawings, monochrome, watercolors and oils.

[5][16][23] One painting, called "The Pool of London", which was created jointly by Claude and his father in 1879, sold at auction in 1999 for £12,000.

The work of Claude, his father, Thomas Cooper and his brother, Reuben Arthur (usually called Rubens) is similar in character and variety; all sought charming urban and rural scenes, coastal scenes and seascapes in the British Isles and Western Europe.