{{Short description|Scottish-Irish painter (1885–1955)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Eleanor Allen Moore | image = Eleanor_Allen_Moore_detail_from_self_portrait.jpg | caption = Detail from self_portrait | birth_name = | birth_date = 26 July 1885 | birth_place = Glenfield, Glenwherry, County Antrim | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1955|9|17|1885|7|26}} | death_place = Edinburgh | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Glasgow School of Art | employer = | occupation = Artist | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} thumb|Glasgow School of Art, where Moore studied drawing and painting '''Eleanor Allen Moore''' (26 July 1885 – 17 September 1955) was a British painter who was born in Northern Ireland, but became one of the group of painters known as the "Glasgow Girls".
==Early life and education==
Moore was born in Glenfield, Glenwherry, County Antrim in 1885.<ref name="Kirkcudbright2000">{{cite book|last1=Arthur|first1=Liz|title=Glasgow Girls: Artists and Designers 1890-1930|publisher=Kirkcudbright2000|url=https://capitadiscovery.co.uk/gsa/items/191917}}</ref> In 1888 she moved with her family to Ayrshire, Scotland, where her father worked as a minister at Loudoun Old Parish Church.<ref name="Kirkcudbright2000"/> She attended Kilmarnock Academy.{{cn|date=December 2025}} From 1902 to 1907 she studied drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art, where she was a contemporary of Norah Neilson Gray.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scotland's People|url=http://www.gsaarchives.net/archon/index.php?p=core/search&subjectid=493|website=GSA Archives|access-date=18 September 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115631/http://www.gsaarchives.net/archon/index.php?p=core/search&subjectid=493|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==World War I and later==
During World War I Moore served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at Craigleith Hospital in Edinburgh.<ref name="Kirkcudbright2000"/> In 1922, Moore married Dr Robert Cecil Robertson and she gave birth to their daughter, Ailsa, the following year.<ref name="Kirkcudbright2000"/> In 1925, the family moved to Shanghai, China, where Robertson was appointed with the Shanghai Municipal Council.<ref name="Kirkcudbright2000"/> Moore continued to paint in Shanghai, where she was inspired by the street scenes and by the Yangtze River Delta. Moore and her daughter were evacuated from Shanghai to Hong Kong during the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, and returned to Scotland soon after, though she had stopped painting.{{cn|date=December 2025}} Her husband, Dr Robertson, remained in Hong Kong until his death in 1942.<ref name="Kirkcudbright2000"/>
==Death and legacy== Moore died in a hospital in Edinburgh in 1955.<ref name="Kirkcudbright2000"/> Moore and her husband were the subject of an exhibition in 1997 which was held at the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, which holds several of her works including a large three quarter length self-portrait.<ref name=kafp>{{Cite web|title = Kilmarnock Academy. famous former pupils - Eleanor Allen Robertson|url = http://www.kilmarnockacademy.co.uk/famouserobertson.htm|website = www.kilmarnockacademy.co.uk|accessdate = 2015-09-18}}</ref> Moore was included in the ''Glasgow Girls'' exhibition in Kirkcudbright in 2010 and a book on the Glasgow Girls by Alisa Tanner, Tanner is Moore's daughter.<ref>[http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/moore_eleanor_allen/artist/68749/ Eleanor Allen Moore], Arcadja.com, Retrieved 18 September 2015</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links== *{{Art UK bio}}
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