Barlow Moore was a celebrated painter of yachts and yachting scenes, working in the golden years of British yachting. Few details are known of his early life, though he is recorded as living at Charing Cross in London and Erith in Kent. He was official painter to the Royal Thames Yacht Club, and he exhibited one work at the Royal Academy in 1868 entitled “The Rescue”, two river scenes at the British Institution and also works at the Royal Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street. He was also a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, the Royal Thames, the Royal Victorian and Royal London Yacht Clubs. His body of work includes colorful and precise portraits of some of the finest British and visiting American yachts of the late nineteenth century. Most of his paintings are to be found today in private collections, his works rarely appearing on the open market.