biography of Andrew W. MELROSE (1836-1901)

Birth place: Selkirk, Scotland

Death place: West New York, NJ

Addresses: Believed to have emigrated to U.S., c.1856; West Hoboken, NJ, 1868-72; Guttenberg, NJ, 1875-83

Profession: Landscape painter

Exhibited: NAD, 1862-83; Brooklyn AA, 1881

Work: NYHS; White House, Wash., DC ("New York Harbor and the Battery," 1887); Allen Mem. Art Mus., Oberlin (OH) College; Gov. Mansion, Richmond, VA (landscape views of the Shenandoah Valley)

Comments: New Jersey artist known for his landscapes of his own region, the Hudson Valley, and New York Harbor, as well as from his many travels to varied places, including the Berkshire Hills, the North Carolina mountains, the Shenandoah Valley, Cornwall (England), Lake Killarney (Ireland), and the Tyrolese Alps. He may also have painted in the West. His "New York Harbor and the Battery" (While House Coll.) was widely distributed as a chromolithograph in 1887.

Sources: G&W; N.Y. Herald, Feb. 26, 1901, obit.; info cited by G&W as being courtesy Mrs. Victor Spark who cites a letter in the NYPL from Mr. Watson, Melrose's son-in-law, dated Feb.11, 1935; NAD Cats., 1872, 1875, 1879-83; NYHS Quarterly Bulletin (April 1941), 51 (repro.); Czestochowski, The American Landscape Tradition,, ill. no. 137; P&H Samuels, 321; Wright, Artists in Virgina Before 1900; 300 Years of American Art, 277.