Biography
Percy Moore Turner (b. Halifax, Yorkshire, UK 1877 - d. 1950) was an art dealer, born in Yorkshire, but living in Norwich from 1889. From 1902 Turner was employed by French art dealers, and became a link between the London and Paris art worlds. He opened his own Independent Gallery in Grafton Street, London in 1920 which held many exhibitions until 1932. Moore Turner dealt mainly in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, plus a few contemporary French artists and in Britrish 18th-century paintings and drawings, especially landscapes and the Norwich School. He became the main adviser for the Bolton mill-owner and collector of moderrn paintings, Frank Hindley Smith (1863-1939), and was responsible for the distribution of his collection on his death. Percy Moore Turner also advised Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947) and Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898-1956).