Harriet Jane Moore

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Harriet Jane Moore c. 1860s

Harriet Jane Carrick Moore (1801 – 6 March 1884)<ref>England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995</ref> was a British watercolour artist who is best known for her drawings of Michael Faraday's work at the Royal Institution. She documented his apartment, study, and laboratory in a series of watercolour paintings in the early 1850s. Letters between Faraday and Moore survive at the Institution of Engineering and Technology. She, and her family, were close with the Swiss-born artist Henry Fuseli.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

She was the eldest of the five children of James Carrick Moore (1762–1860) and Harriet Henderson (1779–1866). She was the niece of Sir John Moore, a British army general in the Peninsular War,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and the granddaughter of the actor John Henderson.

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