Battledore, 1868-1870, Albert Joseph Moore, British, 1841 - 1893, 42 1/4 x 17 13/16 in. ( x cm) (sight)43 x 27 7/16 in. ( x cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, England, 19th century, Albert Moore (1841-1893) was a principal originator of the Aesthetic Movement, which dominated the decorative and pictorial art scene in Britain and America during the last half of the 19th century. Also known as 'Art for Art's Sake', Aestheticism proscribed narrative subject matter and argued that beauty of form, color and composition were the sole ends of art.

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