Just twelve years he exhibited two of his works in the annual Bourbon Show, where in 1833 he won the silver medal for the painting class II Square Vicar, then bought by Queen Isabella of Bourbon, then two years later he won the medal The silver class.
It soon became famous in the Neapolitan art, thanks to the favor of powerful families of the time, as Goerace Meuricoffre and, in addition to his ties of friendship with the Earl of Montesantangelo.
David Moore, Australia’s most renowned and widely travelled photo journalist, died aged 75 on 23 January 2003, two days before the opening of his retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia. His extraordinary and meticulously catalogued archive covers both his homeland and the many countries and subjects he has visited over a sixty year career.
If you know anything of my work you have some idea of the thread of optimism that runs through it. For 30 years I have been surprising and delighting my public, both within the museum walls and without.