Harden Sidney Melville (1824[1]–1894[2]) was an English painter, illustrator and draughtsman.
He received a medal from the Society of Arts[3] and had three paintings hung in the Royal Academy’s show between 1837 and 1841.
[4] He conducted the first official hydrographic survey of the north-east coast of Australia in 1842–1846 on board the H.M.S Fly, which was under the command of Captain Francis Price Blackwood.
[1] He illustrated Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood[5] and several notable Australian works including Joseph Beete Jukes’s official narrative of Fly’s voyage and Ludwig Leichhardt’s Journal.
[6] He was the son of the engraver Henry William Melville (1792–1870) and Martha Harden.