Luis Melendez
1716-80
He assisted his father, artist Francisco Melendez, until 1737, when he began studying with Lewis-Michel Vanloo, the court painter to Philip V of France. Although accepted (1745) into the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he was expelled after his father denounced the academy in a dispute over a royal competition. After traveling throughout Italy, he returned to work for his father as an illustrator of choirbooks.
ID: 74900 Still Life with Watermelons and Apples, Museo del Prado, Madrid. Still Life with Watermelons and Apples, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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