Harden Sidney Melville Explained

Birth Date:8 May 1824
Birth Place:London
Death Date:4 June 1894 (age 70)
Death Place:London
Nationality:British
Known For:Paintings, illustrations and drawings. The first official hydrographic survey of the north-east coast of Australia in 1842–1846.
Awards:Medal from the Society of Arts

Harden Sidney Melville (1824–1894[1]) was an English painter, illustrator and draughtsman. He received a medal from the Society of Arts[2] and had three paintings hung in the Royal Academy’s show between 1837 and 1841.[3] 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.[4] He illustrated Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood[5] and several notable Australian works including Joseph Beete Jukes’s official narrative of Fly’s voyage and Ludwig Leichhardt’s Journal.[6]

He was the son of the engraver Henry William Melville (1792–1870) and Martha Harden.[7]

He died on 4 June 1894 and was buried in Camden on 8 June 1894.[8]

Notes and References

  1. UK General Register Office, 1894 registration district Edmonton, sub-district Hornsey, county of Middlesex. Volume no. 3a, page no. 144. Number 469, death certificate application number 11412490-4.
  2. Web site: Premiums for the Sessions 1838-1839, 1839-1840. 2020-11-28. Google Books. 1838. Society of Arts (Great Britain).
  3. Web site: 1824-01-01. Melville, Harden Sidney, 1824-1894. 2020-12-05. Melville, Harden Sidney, 1824-1894 Items National Library of New Zealand. en.
  4. Web site: 2019-01-14. Harden Sidney Melville. Design & Art Australia online.
  5. Web site: Curiosities of Savage Life (Second Series) by Greenwood, James: Good Hardcover (1864) Lenny's Rare Books. 2020-12-28. www.abebooks.co.uk. en-GB.
  6. Web site: Showing all records The Scheding Index of Australian Art and Artists Art Research. artresearch.com.au. 2019-01-14.
  7. Web site: 1792-01-01. Melville, Henry, 1792-1870. 2020-12-29. Melville, Henry, 1792-1870 Items National Library of New Zealand National Library of New Zealand. en.
  8. Web site: Harden Sidney Melville – in the Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014. 2020-11-30. search.ancestry.co.uk.

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