About Harden Sidney Melville
Lived 1824 – 1894 (aged 70). Harden Sidney Melville was a British painter, engraver, draftsperson, animal painter and landscape painter.
Harden Sidney Melville was an English painter, illustrator and draughtsman. He received a medal from the Society of Arts and had three paintings hung in the Royal Academy’s show between 1837 and 1841. He conducted the first official hydrographic survey of the north-east coast of Australia in 1842–1846 on board the H.M.S Fly, which was under the command of Captain Francis Price Blackwood. He illustrated Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood and several notable Australian works including Joseph Beete Jukes’s official narrative of Fly’s voyage and Ludwig Leichhardt’s Journal.
He was the son of the engraver Henry William Melville (1792–1870) and Martha Harden.
He died on 4 June 1894
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British painter (1824-1894)
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Harden Sidney Melville was born on 8 May 1824 in London.
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Harden Sidney Melville died on 4 June 1894 in London.
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Harden Sidney Melville was a painter, engraver, draftsperson, animal painter and landscape painter.
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Harden Sidney Melville was British.
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