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 Academy, London. Has painted the portraits of many distinguished clergymen, among them Drs. Guthrie, Cunningham, Begg, and John Bruck. Ideal work: Four-*score Years (1885), Thomas Oliver, Borsham, Kent. He is the father of Robert Walker Macbeth; of James Macbeth, landscape and portrait painter; and of H. R. Macbeth, genre and portrait painter, who calls himself, for distinction's sake, H. Macbeth-Raeburn.—Portfolio (1886), 25.

MACBETH, ROBERT WALKER, born in Glasgow in 1848. Landscape and genre painter, son and pupil of Norman Macbeth, portrait painter, and student in London of Royal Academy; elected associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1871, and A.R.A. in 1883. Is also an etcher of ability. Works: A Lincolnshire Gang (1876); Potato Harvest in the Fens (1877); Sedge-Cutting, Early Morning (1878); The Ferry (1881); Betrothed, Ferry Inn, Waiting (1882); Sacrifice, Betrothed, The Signal (1883); Fen Farm, Pied Piper of Hamelin (1884); Ripe October (1885); A Sodden Fen (1886).—Art Journal (1883), 95.

CALLUM, ANDREW, born in Nottingham, England, in 1828. Landscape painter, pupil of the Nottingham School of Art, and in 1849 of the Somerset House School of Design, London. Was a teacher in Manchester in 1851-53, when he went to Italy to select examples of mural paintings for the South Kensington Museum. Opened a studio in London in 1858. Works: Approach of Malaria, Ancient Rome (1868); Moorland Queen (bought by John Phillip, R.A.); Views near Balmoral (painted for the Queen); Sultry Eve (1876), Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia; Glassalt Sheil—Glen Muich (1877).

MACCARI, CESARE, born in Siena, May 9, 1840. History painter, pupil of Siena Academy, then in Florence of Luigi Mussini; continued his studies in Rome, whence he visited Assisi and Venice, acquired reputation especially with fresco paintings executed by order of Victor Emmanuel in the Chapel del Sudario and in the Quirinal. Gold medals in Siena and Parma, 1869; medal in Philadelphia, 1876; great prize in Turin, 1880. Professor at Accademia S. Luca in Rome. Member of Rome, Venice, Bologna, and Genoa Academies. Order of Italian Crown. Works: Rebecca and Eleazer; Leonardo da Vinci painting Mona Lisa (1865); Vittoria Colonna meditating over Michelangelo's Poems (1868); Sira sacrificing herself for Fabiola (1869); Fond Memories, Music hath Charms, Descent from Cross (1870-73); In the Triclinium, Flower on Raphael's Grave (1879); Deposition of Pope Sylverius (1880); Aristocratic Pastime, Two Dandling Venetian Women, Day of First Communion in Venice; Fortune Teller, Corcoran Gallery, Washington. Frescos: Four Evangelists (1864, Marquis Pieri Nerli's Villa at Quinciano); Ceilings in Chapel del Sudario; Tobias burying the Dead (Chapel at Campo Veramo); Triumph of the Three Graces, Quirinal.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 621, 629; Müller, 345.

MACCHIAVELLI, ZANOBI, flourished in 1474. Florentine school; called by Vasari a pupil of Benozzo Gozzoli, but his manner is that of one who also studied in the school of Fra Filippo. His Coronation of the Virgin, dated 1473, Louvre, is not one of his best works. Better is the Madonna and Saints, signed but undated, Pisa Academy.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 517; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 191.

McCORD, GEORGE HERBERT, born in New York in 1840. Landscape painter, pupil of Professor Morse. Has made many sketches in New England, Canada, Florida, and the West. Exhibited first at the National Academy in 1868. Elected an A.N.A. in 1880. Studio in New York. Works: