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 MARTIN First Sight of Eve (1813), Clytie (1814), and Joshua commanding the Sun to stand still (181G), the last of which gained him a premium of 100 at the British Institution, and the appointment of historical landscape painter to the Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold. His designs for Paradise Lost, for which he received 2,000, show great poetic grandeur. He painted many clever water-colour views of the valley of the Thames and other English rivers. "Works: Fall of Babylon (1819); Macbeth (1820); Belshazzar's Feast (1821) ; Destruction of Pompeii (1822), National Gallery, London ; Seventh Plague, Paphian Bower (1823); Creation (1824) ; Deluge (1825) ; Fall of Nineveh (1828); Death of Moses (1838); Last Man (1839) ; Eve of the Deluge, As- suaging of the Waters (1840) ; Celestial City, Pandemonium (1841); Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1852). Redgrave ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole anglaise ; Ottley ; Cat. Nat. Gal. MAimX, NABOB, born in Ghent in 1404, died about 1453. Flemish school ; free of the guild of St. Luke in 1437. Works : Nativity, with portraits of Philip the Good, his Wife, and Child (1448), Grande Boucherie, Ghent ; Adoration of Infant Christ, fresco, ib.- C. it C., Flemish Paint- ers, 242 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 90. MAHTIN, PAUL, born at Kaiserslautern, Bavaria, Aug. 17, 1821. History and genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Josef Bernhardt; studied in Paris (184G) under Gleyre, and settled in Munich. Works: Tilly's Entry into Magdeburg (1857) ; Cromwell in Meditation before the Crown of England (1858); Garibaldi (1860); Loreley (18G7) ; Boy playing with Dog, New Pinakothek, Munich ; Wood-Nymph ; Munich Shoemaker's Apprentices ; Scene from Death of Wallenstein (1883) ; Among Flowers (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886). Frescos: Count Arco's Sacrifice in Tyrol in 1703, Palatine Philip defending Vienna against Solirnan in 1529, Elector Otto Hein- rich building Wing of Heidelberg Castle in 1557, National Museum, Munich. Miiller, 356 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), ii. 484 ; (1882), ii. 225. MAETIN, PIERRE DENIS, born about 1673, died in Paris in 1742. French school ; landscape and battle painter, pupil of Par- rocel and of Van der Meulen ; painter in ordinary to the king and to the czarina. Works : Louis XV. at a Stag-Hunt (1730), Louvre, Paris ; Cavalcade of Louis XV. after the Coronation (1724), View of Versailles (1722), do. of Trianon (2), do. of Chateaux de Marly (2), Saint-Hubert, Meudon, Ma- st. Martin dividing his Mantle, Anton van Dyck, Saventhem. drid, Fontainebleau (1722), Chambord, Bos- quets de Versailles (2), Bassin cVApollon and Canal de Versailles, Engine and Aqueduct of Marly, Versailles Museum ; View of St. Cloud, Nantes Museum. Bellier, ii. 41. MARTIN, ST., DIVIDING HIS MAN- TLE, Anton van Dyck, church at Saventhem, near Brussels ; wood, H. about 5 ft. 9 in. x 5 ft. 3 in. Nearly the same in composition as the picture by Rubens. The woman and children are omitted, St. Martin is a portrait of Van Dyck himself, and the horse is the one given him by Rubens. Painted by Van Dyck for a young lady at Saventhem, who presented it to the parish church. Taken 210