Nelson Augustus Moore was a leading landscape and portrait painter of his day. He was born August 2, 1824, at Kensington, CT, and studied under Thomas Cummings and Daniel Huntington in NYC. After studying in NYC, he taught drawing at the New Britain Normal School, 1850 - 1852, and also had a lucrative photography business. About 1860, he moved to Hartford, opening a daguerreotype studio with his brother, Roswell.

In 1864, Moore returned to landscape painting, and painted throughout New England, spending more than twenty summers at Lake George, NY from 1863 to 1888, where he sold many of his paintings and solicited commissions for completion during the winter months. The last five years of his life were spent painting at Lake Mohonk, NY. He also kept a studio in NYC in the same building with A. F. Tait, J. B. Bristol, and the Hart brothers.

Moore's paintings are in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY.