Percy Moore Turner

Born in Halifax in 1877 and raised in Norwich, Percy Moore Turner became an English art dealer, writer, and adviser whose career linked the London and Paris art worlds. Sources agree that he worked for French dealers from the early 1900s and later opened the Independent Gallery in Grafton Street, London, in 1920.

He dealt especially in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, while also handling British pictures and drawings, including works tied to the Norwich School. He is remembered as an important adviser to collectors such as Samuel Courtauld and Frank Hindley Smith, and later accounts describe him as central to a number of significant acquisitions.

Turner also wrote art books, including Millet, and his papers survive in archival collections. Later biographical sources note that France honored him with the Legion d’Honneur, a sign of the reputation he built across both countries.