Julius G Melchers (1860-1932)

Julius Garibaldi Melchers was an American artist. He was one of the leading American proponents of naturalism. He won a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 1932. 

The son of German-born American sculptor Julius Theodore Melchers, Gari Melchers was a native of Detroit, Michigan, who at seventeen studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under von Gebhardt and is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. After three years went to Paris, where he worked at the Académie Julian, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger.