Background
The son of a gardener at the Royal Palace of Laeken, Mellery initially worked with the painter-decorator Charles Albert.
The son of a gardener at the Royal Palace of Laeken, Mellery initially worked with the painter-decorator Charles Albert.
He attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1860 to 1867, one of his professors being Jean-François Portaels. Mellery designed the statues of all 48 historical professions in the Petit Sablon garden in Brussels.