Wall painting in St. Alban's Church, Rochdale, by Albert Joseph Moore

Albert Moore was born in York, a member of an old Yorkshire family the youngest of fourteen children. His father was an artist, and his elder brother Henry Moore 1831-1895, was the famous marine painter. The family moved to London in the 1850s, and Albert Moore trained initially at the Kensington Art School, and subsequently at the Royal Academy. In the 1860s Moore traveled to Paris and Rome. From 1858 to 1870, he produced and exhibited many pictures and drawings, but he gave up much of his time to decorative work of various kinds, and painted, in 1863, a series of wall decorations at Coombe Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Craven; 

In 1865 he was commissioned, through his friendship with the architect William Eden Nesfield  for the wall paintings in St Albans Church. Carried out in oil on plaster walls, the scheme included The Last Supper and The Feeding of the Five Thousand on the chancel walls of the church and figures of Christ, John the Baptist, the Elders of Revelations and the four Evangelists, elsewhere in the Church of St. Alban's, Rochdale.

A pencil and water colour study of “The Last Supper” was sold at Christies in 2000 for £4,465. 

Albert Joseph Moore