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MELCHERS, (JULIUS) GARI (186o– )

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MELCHERS, (See also:JULIUS) GARI (186o– ) , See also:American artist, was See also:born at See also:Detroit, See also:Michigan, on the a x th of See also:August 186o. The son of a sculptor, at seventeen he was sent to See also:Dusseldorf to study See also:art under von Gebhardt, and after three years went to See also:Paris, where he worked at the Academie See also:Julien and the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts. Attracted by the pictorial See also:side of See also:Holland, he settled at Egmond. His first important Dutch picture, " The See also:Sermon," brought him See also:honourable mention at the Paris See also:Salon of 1886. He became a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design, New See also:York; the Royal Academy of See also:Berlin; Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris; See also:International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, See also:London, and the See also:Secession Society, See also:Munich; and, besides receiving a number of medals, his decorations include the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, See also:France; the See also:order of the Red See also:Eagle, See also:Germany; and See also:knight of the Order of St See also:Michael, See also:Bavaria.

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