Arthur Melville (1858-1904) was a British painter. 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ...

He 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 Greece, he learnt more fron 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. Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country in northwest Europe, occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain. ... East Lothian or Haddingtonshire is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ... Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ... Persian art is conscious of a great past, and monumental in many respects. ...

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 water-color. 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 The Return from the Crucifixion which remained unfinished at his death in 1904. At the Victoria and Albert Museum is one of his water-colors, The Little Bull-Fight Bravo, Toro! and another, An Oriental Goatherd, is in the Weimar Museum. But the majority of his pictures have been absorbed by private collectors. The Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A) is on Cromwell Road in Kensington, West London. ...

A comprehensive memorial exhibition of Melville's works was held at the Royal Institute Galleries in London in 1906.

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