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]

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  Harden Sidney Melville, Autumn Scene. Oil on canvas, c1880.
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  Harden Sidney Melville, Winter Scene. Oil on canvas, c1880.

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  Cannibal Cooking Pots from Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood, S.O. Beeton, 1863, page 281.
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  Darnley Island Mask Dance, from Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood, S.O. Beeton, 1863, page 153.

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