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1876 Berkshire - 1955. Known for: Landscape painting.
Born in Berkshire, and moving to Nottingham in 1903 to work as a traveling salesman, Archibald Campbell Mellon (1876-1955) was determined on an artist's life in Norfolk after witnessing World War One... Read full biography
Born in Berkshire, and moving to Nottingham in 1903 to work as a traveling salesman, Archibald Campbell Mellon (1876-1955) was determined on an artist's life in Norfolk after witnessing World War One horrors and following the migratory example of his painterly hero, John Alfred Arnesby Brown. His... Read full biography
Born in Berkshire, and moving to Nottingham in 1903 to work as a traveling salesman, Archibald Campbell Mellon (1876-1955) was determined on an artist's life in Norfolk after witnessing World War One horrors and following the migratory example of his painterly hero, John Alfred Arnesby Brown. His nickname of Melancholy Mellon reflected both the muddy palette of his early land-locked pictures and his memories of the trenches. With Arnesby Brown installed at Haddiscoe, Mellon moved to a house... Read full biography
Born in Berkshire, and moving to Nottingham in 1903 to work as a traveling salesman, Archibald Campbell Mellon (1876-1955) was determined on an artist's life in Norfolk after witnessing World War One horrors and following the migratory example of his painterly hero, John Alfred Arnesby Brown. His nickname of Melancholy Mellon reflected both the muddy palette of his early land-locked pictures and his memories of the trenches. With Arnesby Brown installed at Haddiscoe, Mellon moved to a house overlooking Gorleston harbor - and for three years became the master's only known student. They were to remain life-long friends and to die within weeks of one another. But while Arnesby Brown was the painter-poet of the marshes - rendering the cow... Read full biography
Born in Berkshire, and moving to Nottingham in 1903 to work as a traveling salesman, Archibald Campbell Mellon (1876-1955) was determined on an artist's life in Norfolk after witnessing World War One horrors and following the migratory example of his painterly hero, John Alfred Arnesby Brown. His nickname of Melancholy Mellon reflected both the muddy palette of his early land-locked pictures and his memories of the trenches. With Arnesby Brown installed at Haddiscoe, Mellon moved to a house overlooking Gorleston harbor - and for three years became the master's only known student. They were to remain life-long friends and to die within weeks of one another. But while Arnesby Brown was the painter-poet of the marshes - rendering the cow every bit as magnificent as close contemporary Alfred Munnings did the horse - Mellon excelled in people-packed sceneOur thanks to Ian Collins for... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeCrowded beach, Gorleston, with boating pond to the foreground
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