Mélanie de Comoléra

French painter (1789–1854)

Mélanie de Comoléra (1789 – 1854) was a French flower painter.

She learned to paint from Cornelis van Spaendonck and is best known for her works on porcelain, painted for her employer, the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres.^[1] She was trained as a flower painter and made a copy of a Jan van Huysum painting in 1827 which she saw in London at the home of Thomas Hope in Cavendish Square.

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  Still Life of Flowers, 1827^[2]
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  Original by Van Huysum, c. 1730^[3]

References

1. Mélanie de Comoléra in RKDartists
2. Still Life of Flowers, record in RKDimages
3. Vase of Flowers on a Garden Ledge, record in RKDimages