# Joseph Moser

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'''Joseph Moser ''' (1748 – 22 May 1819) was an English artist, author, and magistrate. He was a nephew of [George Michael Moser](/source/George_Michael_Moser), enamel painter and drawing-master to [George III](/source/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom). He exhibited at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) from 1774 to 1782. He was made magistrate for Westminster in 1794 and published political pamphlets, dramas, and fiction.

==Life==
Moser was of Swiss descent, the son of Hans Jacob Moser, an artist. He was born in [Greek Street](/source/Greek_Street), [Soho](/source/Soho), [Westminster](/source/Westminster). While still quite young he was placed with his uncle, George Moser, to train at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) as an artist in enamel. Moser did not intend to follow this profession, though he remained in the Royal Academy until his marriage to Elizabeth Liege in 1780.<ref>[F. M. O'Donoghue](/source/Freeman_Marius_O'Donoghue), ‘Moser, Joseph (1748–1819)’, rev. John D. Haigh, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19392, accessed 11 Aug 2017]</ref> From then on he devoted himself to literature.

He was made a magistrate in 1794. In 1808 he was presiding magistrate in the case of [James Hardy Vaux](/source/James_Hardy_Vaux) following the latter's arrest for the theft of a silver snuff box, and a vivid account of the courtroom examination is preserved in Vaux's memoirs.<ref>''Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux''. W. Clowes. 1819. Vaux's account of his theft, arrest, examination and trial is given in [Vol. 2, Ch. 5.](/source/s%3AMemoirs_of_James_Hardy_Vaux%2FVolume_2%2FChapter_5)</ref> Moser died in Romney Street, [Westminster](/source/Westminster).

==Partial list of works==
* ''Lucifer and Mammon'' 1793
* ''Turkish Tales'' 1794
* ''Anecdotes of [Richard Brothers](/source/Richard_Brothers)'' 1795
* ''The Hermit of Caucasus'' 1797
* ''Moral Tales'' 1797

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