Tangiers

Arthur Melville ARSA RSW (1855–1904)

1893

Watercolour

34 x 24 inches.

Signed, inscribed and dated “Arthur Melville/Toledo. 1890” lower left, inscribed again “Corpus Christi” lower right

Provenance: Provenance: Mrs JC Cox and by descent to miss R Cox; with The Fine Art Society; Private Collection, California until 2013; Private Collection, England

When this watercolour was exhibited at the Grafton Gallery in 1894 it was described in the London press as “the highest form of Impressionism.”

Orientalist painters

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References

Gale, I. Arthur Melville. Edinburgh: Atelier books, 1996. P. 98.

MacKay, Agnes Ethel. Arthur Melville, Scottish Impressionist, 1855–1904. London: F. Lewis Publishers, 1951. P. 10, 1460; No. 321.

McConkey, Kenneth. Paintings by Arthur Melville. Exhibition Catalogue. Edinburgh: Bourne Fine Art; London: The Fine Art Society, 2013. No. 9.

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