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- Arthur Melville
- A Cabbage Garden
- 1877
- NG 2822
- On Display
- Scottish Art
- Arthur Melville
- An Arab Interior
- 1881
- NG 2144
- On Display
- Scottish Art
- Arthur Melville
- Dancers at the Moulin Rouge
- 1889
- D 5402
- Dance
- Arthur Melville
- Dancers at the Moulin Rouge
- 1889
- D 5403
- Dance
- Arthur Melville
- A Moorish Procession, Tangier
- 1893
- D NG 947
- Scottish Art
Arthur Melville (Scottish, 1855 - 1904)
Melville's travels in Europe and the Middle East inspired his vibrant paintings in oil and watercolour. He developed a distinctive technique of watercolour painting, described as 'blottesque', using dabs of pigment on wet paper and blotting them with a sponge. Melville, born in Angus, studied painting in Edinburgh before moving to Paris in 1878. He gravitated to the artists' colony in Grez-sur-Long and sold the paintings he produced there to finance his journeys from North Africa to India. From around 1884 he worked closely with several of the Glasgow Boys in Scotland and in London, before his untimely death from typhoid.
