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Mary Blood Mellen

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American painter (1819-1886)

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Mary Blood Mellen was an American painter who was one of several individuals who studied under Fitz Henry Lane. Mellen is one of a number of women painters associated with the Hudson River School of artists in nineteenth-century New England. Her paintings often included landscapes and maritime images.

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Mary Blood Mellen was an American painter who was one of several individuals who studied under Fitz Henry Lane. Mellen is one of a number of women painters associated with the Hudson River School of artists in nineteenth-century New England. Her paintings often included landscapes and maritime images. Though she spent time in New York and Connecticut, Mellen lived primarily 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 a number Massachusetts churches prior to his death in 1866.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1819 to 1886 · aged 66
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