A painting by Mélanie de Comoléra acquired by Chicago

5/11/24 - Acquisition - Chicago, The Art Institute - As we pointed out very recently, the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of nineteenth-century British art - or works associated with this school - is a major focus of its acquisition policy. Following in the footsteps of Holman Hunt (see the news item of 14/3/22) and John Atkinson Grimshaw (see the news item of 25/10/24), a new artist has recently entered the collection: Mélanie Comolera, known as Mélanie de Comoléra, a French painter of flowers who spent most of her long career in London working for the Duchess of Clarence, the future Queen Adelaide, and then the young Queen Victoria.