Xavier Mellery
Belgian Symbolist painter and sculptor
Xavier Mellery was a Belgian Symbolist painter. The son of a gardener at the Royal Palace of Laeken, Mellery initially worked with the painter-decorator Charles Albert. He attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1860 to 1867, one of his professors being Jean-François Portaels. Mellery won the Prix de Rome and traveled to Italy where he studied paintings from the Renaissance. His works include The Rondo of the Hours. Mellery designed the statues of all 48 historical professions in the Petit Sablon garden in Brussels.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Fernand Khnopff Student
Fellow student
Artworks by this artist
- Happiness
- The Artist’s Mother 1871
- Motherly Upbringing
- Couple From Marken
- The Staircase 1889
- Portrait of a Family
- The Metallurgical Industry
- The Artist’s Daughter circa 1882
- The Inspiration
- Peasants
- Le Port de Nieuport, Belgique
- Self Portrait
- The Sculptor Paul De Vigne
- The Soul of Things
- Interior in Marken 1878