Mélanie de Comoléra

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

Mélanie de Comoléra
Born1789
Died1854
NationalityFrance

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.

  • Still Life of Flowers, 1827[2]
  • 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


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