Mary Blood Mellen
Mary Blood Mellen (1819-1886) was an American painter who was but one of several individuals (including William Bradford, Benjamin Champney (1817–1907), and George Merchant Jr.) who studied under Fitz Henry Lane (also called Fitz Hugh Lane). Mellen is remembered as one of a number of women painters tentatively associated with the Hudson River School of artists in nineteenth-century New England.[1] Her paintings often included landscapes and maritime images. Mellen lived in Massachusetts, and many of her paintings find their source in the Massachusetts and Maine landscapes and seascapes. In 1840, she married the Rev. Charles W. Mellen, a Universalist minister at several Massachusetts churches prior to his death in 1866.[2]
As a painter and copyist, Mellen repeatedly attempted to mimic the work of her teacher and mentor Fitz Henry Lane and painted numerous, admittedly inferior works in her own right. Her paintings include a landscape of the Blood family home (presumably her childhood home), a representative seascape entitled Shipwreck on the Beach (1870s), and a painting that portrays ships at sea as well as a pastoral New England countryside entitled Field Beach (c 1850s).[3][4] Like Lane and others associated with the Hudson River artists, Mellen painted in the luminist style popular in mid-nineteenth century America.[5]
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