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Arthur Melville

Arthur Melville (1855 - 1904) was active/lived in Scotland, Middle East.  Arthur Melville is known for Orientalist subject, portrait painting, watercolor specialty.

Arthur Melville was a Scottish painter, now probably best remembered for his Orientalist subjects. He was born in Scotland, in a village of Haddingtonshire. He took up painting while working as a grocer's apprentice, then attended the Royal Scottish Academy* Schools and studied afterwards in Paris and Greece. However, he learned more from practice and personal observation than from school training.

The remarkable colour-sense which is so notable a feature of his work, whether in oils or in watercolour, came to him during his adventurous travels in Persia, Egypt and Turkey from 1880-82, where he by no means stuck to the major cities, travelling alone on long inland journeys. To convey strong Middle Eastern light, he developed a technique of using watercolour on a base of wet paper with gouache applied to it.

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 d   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2151 characters.]  Artist bio

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