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 MOKTO from Reynolds. In 17G3 gained first pre- mium from Society of Arts, and in 17G4, in competition with Romney, the award of 100 guineas for his St. Paul preaching to the Britons, now the altarpiece of the church at High Wycombe. Was a member of the Society of Artists, and its vice-president in 1773 ; but fell into dissipated habits and neglected art. Created R.A. in 1779, by special grant from the king, but did not live to receive his diploma. Better known by his drawings than his pictures. Left many etchings. Works : King John grant- ing Magna Cliarta ; Vortigeru and Rowena ; St. Paul preaching to the Britons ; Battle of Agincourt ; Progress of Vice ; Progress of Virtue ; Portrait of himself, National Por- trait Gallery. Redgrave ; Ch. Blanc, Kcole anglaise ; F. de Conches, 301. MORTO DA FELTRE, of Feltre, born at Feltre in 1474, killed in battle of Zara, 1519, according to V a s a r i , though a fres- co of 1522 has been ascribed to him. Ve- netian school; supposed identical with Pietro Luzzi, son of Bartolommeo, who was appointed surgeon to city of Zara, in 147(>, and died there in 1530. Pietro or Morto, who, from his father's residence in Zara is sometimes called Zarato or Zarotto, went in 1495 to Rome, in 150G to Florence, and in 1508 to Venice, where, according to Ridolfi, he became the disciple of Giorgione, whose mistress he se- duced, and whose death he caused (1511) from grief. He afterwards settled at Fel- tre. But few of his works remain. He is at his best in the altarpiece in the church at Villabruna. C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 219 ; Va- sari, ed. Le Mon., ix. 106 ; vii. 87 ; Burck- hardt, 728; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. GOG. MOSCHELES, FELIX, born in London in 1833. Figure and portrait painter, son of the eminent composer, Ignaz Moscheles ; studied in Paris and under Van Lerius in Antwerp. Studio in London ; exhibits at Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. Visited New York in 1883 and 1884. Works : Grief, Spanish Boy (1878) ; Span- ish Song (1879) ; Basket-Making in Gra- nada ; Little Mozart's Own Choir ; Daugh- ter of Herodias (1882); Zuppa al fresco Bordighera (1883) ; Portraits of Mazzini, Gounod, Rubinstein, Robert Browning, Henry M. Stanley, President Cleveland. MOSCHER, JACOB VAN, flourished in 1G13-50. Dutch school ; landscape paint- er, mentioned as master of the guild at Delft in 1G13-14, worked at Haarlem in 1G40-50, where Adriaan van Ostade painted the figures in his pictures. Works : Field Path along Low Hill, Lowland Village, Old Pinakothek, Munich. MOSENGEL, ADOLF, born in Hamburg, Jan. 1, 1837, died there, June 12, 1885. Landscape painter, pupil of Diisseldorf Academy ; studied in Paris, and in Geneva in 18G1 under Calamc. Works : Alp Arpi- tetta in Val d'Anniviers ; Westphalian Land- scape ; The Mowers ; Sunshine before Rain ; Alpine Scene. Mailer, 379. MOSER, LUCAS, 15th century, born at Weil, Suabia. German school ; known by ' an altarpiece in church at Tiefenbronn, be- tween Calw and Pforzheim, which contains ed in warm colour. The hands and feet are strikingly true to nature. In the Carlsruhe Gallery are five wings of an altarpiece paint- ed in the style of this master. Allgem. d. Biog., xxii. 383 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 129 ; Schnaase, vi. 4G9 ; W. & W., ii. 92. MOSES AND BURNING BUSH, Raph- ael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican ; fresco on ceiling. Moses, as a shepherd, with his face hidden in his hands, kneeling before the burning bush, from which the Lord is issu- ing, attended by angels and seraphim. In this work the grandeur of Michelangelo is 3(10
 * carefully modelled and pleasing heads paint-