Arthur Melville

{"Id":3700,"Name":"Arthur Melville","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EMELVILLE, ARTHUR (1858-1904),\u003C/strong\u003E British painter, was born in Scotland, in a village of Haddingtonshire. He took up painting at an early age, and though he attended a night-school and studied afterwards in Paris and Grez, he learnt more from practice and personal observation than from school training. The remarkable color-sense which is so notable a feature of his work, whether in oils or in watercolor, came to him during his travels in Persia, Egypt and India. 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. Though his vivid impressions of color and movement are apparently recorded with feverish haste, they are the result of careful deliberation and selection. He was at his best in his watercolors of Eastern life and color and his Venetian scenes, but he also painted several striking portraits in oils and a powerful colossal composition of \u003Cu\u003EThe Return from the Crucifixion\u003C/u\u003E which remained unfinished at his death in 1904. At the Victoria and Albert Museum is one of his watercolors, \u003Cu\u003EThe Little Bull-Fight: Bravo, Toro!\u003C/u\u003E and another, \u003Cu\u003EAn Oriental Goatherd\u003C/u\u003E, is in the Weimar Museum. But the majority of his pictures have been absorbed by private collectors.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EA comprehensive memorial exhibition of Melville\u0027s works was held at the Royal Institute Galleries in London in 1906.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESource:\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/u\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cli type=\u0022square\u0022\u003EEntry on \u003Ca href=\u0022http://46.1911encyclopedia.org/M/ME/MELVILLE_ARTHUR.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003Ethe artist\u003C/a\u003E in the 1911 Edition Encyclopedia Britannica.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":22}