Edward Moran was born in Lancashire, England in 1829 and moved to Maryland with his family when he was 15 and then Philadelphia a year later. He apprenticed under James Hamilton and Paul Weber when he was 16, and eventually worked in the same studio as his younger brother, Thomas Moran. The height of his career was a set of 13 paintings depicting the Marine History of the US. He died in 1901.
Moran's heroic painting emphasizes the beauty of nature and hope of America in the painting "Bright Lights" specifically throughout the image of the lighthouse, guiding people people back to the land of the free from the raging ocean and the people who are alone, attempting to build a better life.
Moran's epic painting reveals the romantic element of wild energy in the painting "Burning of the Philadelphia" (1804) specifically through the image of the burning ship which captures a historic event during the Barbary War and the wild pride and energy Americans had at that time, the ship was too great to be held by the enemy so it had to be sacrificed.
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