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Percy Moore Turner
1877–1950
A sharp-eyed British art dealer and connoisseur, he helped connect the London and Paris art worlds in the early 20th century. His name turns up around major discoveries, exhibitions, and paintings by artists from the Norwich School to the French masters he championed.
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About the author
Born in Halifax on July 6, 1877, Percy Moore Turner grew up in Yorkshire and later lived in Norwich. Reliable art-reference sources describe him primarily as an art dealer rather than a novelist or poet, and they place him at the center of the trade in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist work as well as British art.
From the early 1900s, he worked with French dealers and became an important link between Paris and London. He later opened the Independent Gallery in Grafton Street, London, where exhibitions ran through the 1920s and early 1930s. His career also touched scholarship and collecting: museum and art-history records connect him with writings on art, notable attributions, and the ownership or donation of significant paintings.
He died in 1950. Because the available sources in this search focus on his work in the art world, this overview keeps to that well-documented side of his life rather than assuming details about a broader literary career.