Harden Sidney Melville
Born8 May 1824
London
Died4 June 1894 (age 70)
London
NationalityBritish
Known forPaintings, illustrations and drawings. The first official hydrographic survey of the north-east coast of Australia in 1842–1846.
AwardsMedal from the Society of Arts

Harden Sidney Melville (1824[1]–1894[2]) was an English painter, illustrator and draughtsman. He received a medal from the Society of Arts[3] and had three paintings hung in the Royal Academy’s show between 1837 and 1841.[4] 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.[1] 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[2] and was buried in Camden on 8 June 1894.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Harden Sidney Melville". Design & Art Australia online. 14 January 2019.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ "Premiums for the Sessions 1838-1839, 1839-1840". Google Books. Society of Arts (Great Britain). 1838. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Melville, Harden Sidney, 1824-1894". Melville, Harden Sidney, 1824-1894 | Items | National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 1824. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  5. ↑ "Curiosities of Savage Life (Second Series) by Greenwood, James: Good Hardcover (1864) | Lenny's Rare Books". www.abebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  6. ↑ "Showing all records | The Scheding Index of Australian Art and Artists | Art Research". artresearch.com.au. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  7. ↑ "Melville, Henry, 1792-1870". Melville, Henry, 1792-1870 | Items | National Library of New Zealand | National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 1792. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  8. ↑ "Harden Sidney Melville – in the Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014". search.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2020.


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