Details

Name

Arthur Melville

Brief Biography

1855 – 1904, Scottish / British

Occupation

Painter

Description

Melville, with the exception of some training received at a night school in Edinburgh, was self-taught. In 1877 he studied at Paris, and subsequently at Graz. He visited Egypt, India and Persia 1881–82. After some years in Scotland, where he associated himself with the Glasgow School Group of painters, he developed a new style of watercolour painting and settled in London. He worked in Spain and Morocco, finding his subjects in the market-place, the mosque, and the bull-ring. He was elected ARSA in 1886, ARWS in 1889, RWS in 1900. From 1897 he lived chiefly at Whitley, Surrey, where he produced a series of large oil paintings, and was engaged on an immense canvas, 'The Return from the Crucifixion', when he died.