# Luis Meléndez artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/luis-melendez/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:34:39.139Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Luis Meléndez](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Self-portrait_Holding_an_Academic_Study_by_Luis_Mel%C3%A9ndez_%28detail%29-2.jpg/1280px-Self-portrait_Holding_an_Academic_Study_by_Luis_Mel%C3%A9ndez_%28detail%29-2.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_Holding_an_Academic_Study_by_Luis_Mel%C3%A9ndez_(detail)-2.jpg

## About Luis Meléndez

Luis Meléndez (1716–1780), also recorded as Luis Egidio, Luis Eugenio, or Luis Eugidio Meléndez, was a Spanish painter identified especially with eighteenth-century still-life painting. Public descriptions emphasize his close observation of ordinary food and kitchen objects and his handling of composition, light, volume, and surface texture. These qualities made everyday provisions the central subjects of carefully organized paintings rather than incidental decorative details. Collectors may encounter his work under more than one given-name variant, making identity normalization important when consulting collection catalogues, bibliographic records, and auction listings. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and IdRef connect these variants with the painter who lived from 1716 to 1780. The collected material supports his classification as a Spanish painter and still-life specialist, but it does not provide enough institution-grade narrative detail to assign a specific movement or reconstruct a complete career chronology.

## Common works and media

Public descriptions identify Meléndez principally with paintings, especially still lifes centered on food and ordinary kitchen fare. The source pack does not establish recurring auction categories for prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editions, so those work types should not be presented as characteristic without additional evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The available source pack supports auction comparison at the level of artist identity, work type, and still-life subject, but it does not support a price forecast. Research should begin by resolving the recorded Meléndez name variants and identifying paintings with genuinely comparable subjects. Appraisily’s public artist page indicates an associated auction-record set, although the collected pack contains no individual lot descriptions, measurements, condition reports, provenance, attribution wording, estimates, currencies, realized prices, or sale dates. Those fields should be checked in the underlying records before selecting comparables. Works catalogued merely as attributed to, after, or in the manner of an artist should not be treated as equivalent to firmly attributed works.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707478
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/084661054
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012595
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/50050308/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Egidio_Mel%C3%A9ndez
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Eugenio_Mel%C3%A9ndez
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Mel%C3%A9ndez
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/luis-melendez/