Ellen Maria Moore

Ellen Maria Moore was the second child born to Ann Maria Pickett and Nelson Augustus Moore in Kensington, Connecticut. She was salutary of her class at Hartford Female Seminary (founded by Catherine Beecher), and attended Metropolitan Museum Art School in New York City, and becam a member of the Art Students League.

A miniature painter and teacher, she studied at the Art Students League in New York City with Joseph De Camp; Mary Elmer and Isaac A. Josephi of New York City (landscapist and miniature painter).

She moved to Boston, became a teacher of miniature painting and became a member of the Copley Society (established in 1879 as the Boston Arts Students Association, in 1888 changing its name). She was Assistant to Arturm Hazard, Head of Boston School of Painting.

Exhibited: American Watercolor Society; NY Watercolor Club; Boston Art Club 1905 (one miniature portrait); 1906 (three watercolor) and 1908 (a watercolor of her father N.A. Moore, and a portrait of Miss B.); Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters; The Copley Society; and the American Society of Miniature Painters.

After her father died, her mother moved to Boston and lived with Ellen on Beacon Hill. Ellen was the mainstay of the Mount Pisgah Colony for artists in Boothbay, Maine.