# Rear Admiral George W. Melville

- By: Thomas Eakins (American, 1844 - 1916)
- Date: 1905
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 101.6 x 68.5 cm (40 x 26 15/16 in.) ; framed: 115.6 x 82.6 x 5.1 cm (45 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 2 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Gift (Partial and Promised) of Senator and Mrs. H. John Heinz III, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.72164.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/16d05854-8396-4363-b93f-850af672801a/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)