MORAN, TuomAs, b. in Lancashire, Eng., 1837. When seven years old his family came to Philadelphia, where Thomas was educated in the city schools, and then appren ticed to Mr. Scattergood, an engraver. During this apprenticeship he devoted'all his spare time by clay to painting in water colors and the study of painting, and his evenings to drawing. His success was immediate: his water-color paintings sold quickly at good prices. When master of water-colors, and studying from nature, he perceived the greater range of oil painting, and at 23 years of age turned his attention to that. department. When 25 he visited England. in 1866 he again went to Europe, visited England. France, and Italy, and remained, several years for work. He returned in 1871 and joined prof. Hayden's party of exploration to the head waters of the Yellowstone river, he made the sketches from which he produced the picture of the " Grand Cation of the Yellowstone," purchased by congress, and now filling a panel in the capitol at Washington. The following year he visited the Yosemite and the Sierras of California and Nevada. In 1873 he joined the t. S. exploring expedition, conducted by maj. J. W. Powell, which surveyed the wonderful canyons of the Colorado river in Colorado and Utah, and on his return completed a picture of " The Chasm of the Colorado," which was purchased by congress as a companion to the Yellowstone picture. The
following year he Visited the mountain of the Holy Cross in Colorado, and on his return to New York, where he has made his residence, he finished a picture of that mountain, which ranks as one of his grand works. These are a few of Mr. Moran's large works. Of smaller pieces he has been a prolific worker in every department of landscape art. these are: "The Lost Arrow," " The Ripening of the Leaf," " Dminiland." "The Groves were God's First Temples," "The Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior," " The Conemaugh in Autumn," "The First Ship," "The Flight into Egypt," "The Rernorse of Cain," " The Children of the Mountain," "The Track of the Storm," "Ponce,de Leon in Florida," " New York from Conummipaw," and "After a Thaw." It is to Mr. Moran's skilled pencil that the world is indebted for the superb illustrations on wood that adorn the reports of both Hayden's and Powell's explorations and the most spirited recent engravings of Rocky mountain scenery. "The Wonders of the Yellowstone," which have been illustrated in ehromo by L Prang Co., are from his water-color sketches. Mr. Moran's style is marked neither by over-care nor by careless ness of finish. In the "After a Thaw," a locomotive on the flushed flats of New Jersey, ceca through a spring mist, becomes a picture of poetic beauty.