MORO, ATTONI, or SIR ANTHONY MORE, an eminent portrait-painter, was born at Utrecht in 1512, according to some, but in 1525 according to Van Mander, in his Het Leven der Schilders. He studied his art under Jan Schoorel; and after making a professional visit to Italy, he commenced to paint portraits in the style of Hans Holbein. His rise to eminence was rapid. In 1552 he was invited to Madrid by the Emperor Charles V. to execute a likeness of Prince Philip. Two years afterwards he was in London painting the portrait of Queen Mary. For this picture an annual salary, and, as some suppose, the honour of knighthood, were conferred upon him. He was also employed to sketch the likenesses of several of the English nobility. On the death of Mary in 1558 Moro returned to Spain, and lived there for two years in great honour with the Emperor Philip. He then repaired to the Netherlands, and was received into the service of the Duke of Alva. His death took place at Antwerp about 1581. "Moro's style," says Stanley in his Dutch and Flemish Painters, "so much resembles that of Holbein as to frequently create a doubt to which of them a portrait is to be attributed; but he is not so clear and delicate in his colouring (perhaps from having painted so much in Spain) as that master."