Jacob More (1740–1793)

• Was a Scottish landscape painter.
• Jacob More was born in 1740 in Edinburgh.

• He studied landscape and decorative painting with James Norie's firm. 

• He took the paintings of Gaspard Dughet and Claude Lorrain as his models. 

• By 1773 More had settled in Rome, and spent the rest of his life there; nevertheless, in the 1780s he managed to send Italian landscapes back to England for annual exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London.

• He was a close friend of Thomas Jones, and was one of the artists waiting at the English Coffee House for Jones's arrival in Rome in 1776. 

• In 1787 he was visited by Goethe, who considered his work 'admirably thought out'. 

• He was dubbed the 'British Claude', and 'More of Rome'. 

• In Italy he befriended Allan Ramsay.

• In Rome he enjoyed a high reputation, and was commissioned to design an 'English' garden in the grounds of the Villa Borghese.

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