Mar 9, 2020 · Melville was a pioneer and it was indeed already 'modern' art. Brought up in East Linton, a little town east of Edinburgh, Melville was initially encouraged by the academician …

Melville moved to London in 1889, and in the following year made the first of several visits to Spain and Morocco in pursuit of the exotic subject matter and settings he craved.

Oct 10, 2024 · From the late 1890s, Melville focused increasingly on painting in oils. Critical response to his paintings at the time were frequently mixed; yet to a modern eye they are the …

Few artists in the late nineteenth century could boast that they had been pursued on horseback by bandits, dodged bullets, or been cast into prison as a spy by a Pasha in Kurdistan, but all of …

They flourished throughout the 1880s and 1890s and, as well as painting in Glasgow and its environs, they sought scenes of rural life in other parts of Scotland. Principal members of the …

Bright sunlight falls across the terrain in Arthur Melville’s The Chalk Cutting, (no 11), forming pools of colour in the shadows. The narrow gauge rail tracks leading into the man-made defile …

Melville, though comparatively little known during his lifetime, was one of the most powerful influences in the contemporary art of his day, especially in his broad decorative treatment with …

Melville, though comparatively little known during his lifetime, was one of the most powerful influences in contemporary art, especially in his broad decorative treatment with watercolor.

Arthur Melville (1855–1904) was a Scottish painter of Orientalist subjects, among others. Melville's travels in Europe and the Middle East inspired his vibrant paintings in oil and …

Son of Samuel Stallon and Gertrude (née Orchard) Stallon. Died at 7 Weymouth Street, Portland Place, Marylebone, London. Aged 2 years and 6 months old. Buried 27 December 1890