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 MEULEN ' - - v ' of Munich Academy. Works : Landscape in Approaching Storm ; Moonlight Land- scape (1837) ; Landscape with Ruin of Castle and Torrent. D. Kunstbl. (1852), 51 ; Kunst-Chronik, iv. 144 ; Raczynski, ii. 343 ; Sijltl, 291. MEULEN, ADAM FltANS VAN DER, Lorn in Brussels, Jan. 11, 1632, died in Paris, Oct. 15, 1690. Flemish school ; genre, landscape, and battle paint- er, pupil of Pec- terSnayers. He became court- painter to Louis XIV., was lodged at the Gobelins, had a pension of 6,000 livres, and accompanied the king to Flanders to paint his battles. Member of the Academy of Painting, 1673; counsellor, 1681 ; first do. 1686. His pan- oramic views are painted with facility, but, apart from their historical interest, are of no great value. Works : Entry of Louis XIV. into Arras, do. into Dinant, Siege of Maes- tricht, View of Fontainebleau, and nineteen others, Louvre ; Army of Louis XIV. en- camped before Tournai, Brussels Museum ; Convoy in Mountainous Landscape (1661), Rotterdam Museum ; Surrender of City in Lorraine, Basle Museum ; Attack of Cavalry, Mnsee Rath, Geneva ; Winter Landscape with Cavalry Skirmish, Aschaftenburg Gal- lery ; Convoy passing through Village (1660), Augsburg Gallery ; View of Versailles, Ber- lin Museum ; Entry of Duke of Alva into Brussels, Travelling Train of a Queen of France, Cassel Gallery ; Cavalry Skirmish, Darmstadt Museum ; Excursion of Louis XIV. to Vincennes, Entry of Louis XIV. into Arras in 1667, Dresden Museum ; View of Fontainebleau, Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Taking of Dole in 1668, Siege of Tournay, Louis XIV. receiving an Ambassador, while bombarding Oudenarde, Taking of Lille, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Louis XP7. ad- vancing towards Dinan, Schleissheim Gal- lery ; Group of Horsemen, Cavalry Combat, Schwerin Gallery ; Cavalry Skirmish, Mu- seum, Vienna ; Theatre on Market Square, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. ; Sea and Caval- ry Fight near Shore, Harrach Gallery, ib. ; Louis XIV. and Suite near a Dutch Town besieged by him, Skirmishes (2), Hermit- age, St. Petersburg ; Attack of Cavalry, Madrid Museum ; Battle of Treviri, Siege of Chivasso in 1639, Landscape with Trav- ellers and Horses, Horse Market, Turin Gallery ; Cavalry Skirmish, Vienna Muse- um ; five pictures, Buckingham Palace, London ; Fleet Review at Dunkirk, Lord Scarsdale, Kedleton Hall ; Progress of Louis lery, Edinburgh ; Cavalry Combat (2), New York Museum. Fetis, Les artistes beiges a 1'i'tranger, ii, 104. Immerzeel, ii. 221 ; Jal, 860 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 340 ; Michiels, ix. 282 ; Burger, Must'es, ii. 346. MEULEMANS, ADRIAAN, born at Dor- drecht in 1766, died at Scheveningen in 1834. Portrait and interior painter, pupil of Michiel Versteeg, in whose style he painted scenes by lamp- and candle-light. Member of Brussels Academy in 1819. Works : Old Woman reading, Kitchen by Lamp-light (1817), Amsterdam Museum. Immerzeel, ii. 219 ; Kramrn, iv. 1107. MEULENER (Meulenaer, Molenaer), PEETER, born in Antwerp, baptized Feb. 18, 1602, died there, buried Nov. 27, 1654. Flemish school ; landscape and battle paint- er, grandson of Cornelis Molenaer, perhaps a pupil of Peeter Suayers ; master of the guild in 1631-32. * Works : Two war scenes (1644), Madrid Museum ; Battle of Duke Christian of Brunswick (1646), Bruns- wick Gallery ; Cavalry Skirmish (1650), Nostitz Gallery, Prague. Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 110 ; Van den Branden, 668. MEUNIER, CONSTANTIN, born at Brus- sels in 1831. History and genre painter, pupil of Brussels Academy under Navez. Gold medal in Brussels, 1869 ; medal in