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John Melville (25 August 1902 – 8 December 1986) was a self-taught British Surrealist painter. He is described by Michel Remy in his book Surrealism in Britain as one of the harbingers of surrealism in Great Britain.He was along with his art critic brother Robert Melville and the artist Conroy Maddox a key member of the Birmingham Surrealists from the 1930s to the 1950s. His choice of subjects as a painter was wide; he painted figures portraits still-life and landscapes.