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John Lysaght Moore (28 March 1897 – 8 June 1965) was a New Zealand painter, printmaker, weaver and knitter. His work is in the collections of the National Library of New Zealand, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Auckland Art Gallery.
Moore was born in Hāwera in 1897 to Francis Edward Moore and his wife Sophia Augusta Lysaght. He was the nephew of Admiral Sir Arthur Moore and the New Zealand cricketer Henry Moore. He was a cousin of Averil Lysaght and Mary Watt.
Moore moved with his mother to Wellington, then to Havelock North in Hawke's Bay. He served overseas in the New Zealand Medical Corps during World War I. He studied art in Wellington with D. K. Richmond and H. L. Richardson, then studied in Europe, attending Goldsmiths College, London School of Art, and the British Academy in Rome from 1923 to 1927. He bought a house in York Bay in Lower Hutt in 1937, but did not move from Havelock North until 1947, after which he lived in York Bay with his older sister Evelyn.