Xavier Mellery, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Xavier Mellery

painter

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1845

Place of Birth: Laeken, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1921

Profession: painter

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Xavier Mellery (9 August 1845, Laken – 4 February 1921, Brussels) 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.