Campbell archibald mellon biography sample

Campbell Mellon was born in Berkshire, 16th June 1876.

It was not until his move to Nottingham in 1903 that he turned to painting, studying under Carl Brenner, a nephew of the landscape painter Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923), who lived in Nottingham and exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Mellon served in The Great War, retiring to Gorleston in Norfolk in the years following.

Campbell archibald mellon biography sample

It was here in Norfolk that he turned to painting as a career, studying with Sir John Alfred Arnesley Brown RA (1866-1955). Arnesley Brown, coincidentally born in Nottingham, having lived and painted in Cornwall and London, settled in Norfolk in the village of Haddiscoe near Gorleston.

He was a landscape painter whose works were evocative of the East Anglian landscape with its towering skies. Mellon inherited a certain similarity of brushwork and this interest in the East Anglian atmospheric conditions, many of his coastal scenes are inscr