Professor Gerald E. Moira
Other names: Giraldo de Moura
Born 26 January 1867
Died 2 August 1959
Active: 1887 - 1946
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Great Britain
Painter, mural painter, illustrator, relief designer, teacher, art school principal
He was born in London and the son of Eduardo Lobo da Moira, a former Portuguese diplomat and miniature painter. Gerald studied at the Royal Academy Schools between 1887 and 1889. He made his name as a mural painter in 1898 with a commission from J. Lyons & Co. for decorations at the Trocadero restaurant in Shaftesbury Avenue, London.
Moira collaborated with the sculptor Frank Lynn Jenkins in producing a number of coloured low relief friezes. (A description of these projects is given in the entry for the sculptor Frank Lynn Jenkins.) He taught mural painting and Illustration at the Royal College of Art from 1900 and was Principal of Edinburgh College of Art from 1923. Moira was also president of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, vice-president of the Royal Watercolour Society, a member of the Royal West of England Academy, and a founder member of the National Portrait Society.
Wealth at death: £33,293 9s. 1d.
Probate date: 7 September 1959
Works
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Collaborated on Isabella
A Series of Designs for a Frieze
Collaborated on 'To battle in the Tourney for her love; To win the Golden Circlet and a Bride'
Collaborated on The Low Downs lead to the Sea
Collaborated on St Agnes' Eve
Locations
Address 181A King's Road Chelsea London | View on map
Studio located at The Studio, 181A King's Road Chelsea London | View on map
1898 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
'A Series of Designs for a Frieze'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Arts & Crafts Exhibition, 1900
'Panel'
Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Unspecified work (627).
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1891 - 1946
Exhibited 40 times, usually one work.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
Isabella (cat. no. 1352, made by Gerald Moira and F. Lynn Jenkins, £70).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Model of end of Concert Room for Messrs C. Bechstein, Wigmore Street, London (cat. no. 1578, collaboration with Frank Lynn-Jenkins); Overmantel - 'The Wooing of Ena' (cat. no. 1621, coloured plaster relief, not for sale, collaboration with Frank Lynn-Jenkins).
Institutional and Business Connections
Associated with The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
Principal of The Edinburgh College of Art
1923 - 1932
Professor of painting at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1900 - 1923
Taught mural painting and illustration.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Frank Lynn Jenkins
1901 (Circa)
on a number of projects (seen entry for Lynn Jenkins), including the following works shown at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition (1901): 1578 Model of end of Concert Room for Messrs. C. Bechstein, Wigmore Street, London and 1621 Overmantel - 'The Wooing of Ena', coloured plaster relief, NFS
Sources
A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Second Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1899
1899
p.12, p.18, p.61.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.10.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.266.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first, 1901 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1901
pp. 47-8
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth, 1899 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1899
pp. 48-52.
Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1900
1900
Cat. No. 41, pp. 19, 78
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Alan Windsor, ‘Moira, Gerald Edward (1867–1959)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64523, accessed 15 Oct 2009]
Citing this record
'Professor Gerald E. Moira', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1203115924, accessed 04 Jun 2023]
