his father's death in 1851, Moore owed much to the care and tuition of his brother, John Collingham. In 1855, he came to London and attended the Kensington grammar school till 1858, when he became a student at the Royal Academy Schools. He had already exhibited there in 1857, when he sent A Goldfinch and A Woodcock.

His early works shows the influence of Ruskin. In 1859 he was in France with the architect William Eden Nesfield. In 1861, he made a new venture