Edward Moran

1829-1901

American (New York, New York)

Edward Moran grew up in a family of weavers in Lancashire, England, where he learned to draw from a street artist. At the age of fifteen, Moran immigrated with his family to the United States. He first studied landscape and marine painting in Philadelphia under Paul Weber and James Hamilton and later returned to England to study at the Royal Academy in London. In 1872 he moved to New York City, which would, except for a brief move to France in the late 1870s, thenceforth be his primary city of residence.