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 many altarpieces for country churches in Bohemia. Works: Portrait of King Wenceslaus II., Gallery, Prague; Portraits of Archbishops Chlumczansky and Kolowrat, Karolinum, ib.; Several other Archbishops, Archiepiscopal Palace, ib.; Professors Krombholz and Johann Fischer, Slavophiles Jungmann and Schafarschik, etc.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xx. 5; Wurzbach, xvi. 202.

MACHOLD, JOSEF, born at Benisch, Silesia, Dec. 24, 1824. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, but mostly self-taught; spent three years in Munich, befriended and influenced by Julius Schnorr, whom he followed to Dresden; entered the army in 1848, fought in twelve battles and skirmishes during the campaign in Hungary, and in 1857 became professor at the military academy in Wiener-Neustadt. Works: Roland Cycle (13 water-colours after Uhland's ballad); Singing and Song (6); Three Paintings after Polish Epic Marya; Harald (after Uhland's Poem, 1866); Scenes from Myths of Bacchus, Ceres, and Venus; Scene from Midsummer-Night's Dream (1867).—Müller, 346; Wurzbach, xvi. 206.

MACIP, VICENTE JUAN. See Joanes.

McLACHLAN, T. HOPE, born in England; contemporary. Landscape painter; exhibits at the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Head of Teesdale, Scene from "Ancient Mariner" (1881); Wilderness of the Dead Sea (1882); In the Border Country (1883); On Bowes Moor—Teesdale (1884); Barden Beck, When Leaves fall in Russet Woods, Nightfall (1885).

MACLISE, DANIEL, born at Cork, Jan. 25, 1811 (Feb. 2, 1806 ?), died at Chelsea, April 25, 1870. History painter, student of the Cork Society of Arts, and of the Royal Academy, London, where he won the gold medal in 1831 for the best historical composition, the Choice of Hercules; became an A.R.A. in 1835, and R.A. in 1840. He painted a few excellent portraits, among them Charles Dickens (1839), but his chief works are subject and historical pictures. The later years of his life were much engrossed by his compositions for the decoration of the Houses of Parliament, especially by his two large water-glass paintings—Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after Waterloo (46 ft. long), and Death of Nelson (1859-64). He executed also a series of designs—The Story of the Norman Conquest—for the Art Union, and many book illustrations. Works: Puck disenchanting Bottom (1832); All-Hallow Eve (1833); Installation of Captain Rock (1834); Chivalric Vow of Ladies and Peacock (1835); Macbeth and the Witches (1836); Olivia and Sophia fitting out Moses for the Fair (1838); Banquet Scene in Macbeth (1840); Malvolio and the Countess (1840), Play Scene in Hamlet (1842), National Gallery; Ordeal by Touch (1846); Gross of Green Spectacles (1850); Caxton showing his Printing-Press to Edward IV. (1851); Marriage of Strongbow and Eva (1854), National Gallery, Dublin; Origin of the Harp, Alan Potter, Esq.; Scene from Midas, The Queen. In fresco: Spirit of Justice, Spirit of Chivalry (1850), House of Lords; Marriage of Strongbow and Eva, Alfred in the Danish Camp, Royal Gallery, Parliament House; Comus, pavilion of Buckingham Palace.—O'Driscoll, Memoir (1871); Redgrave; Ottley; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Sandby, ii. 161.

NEE, Sir DANIEL, born at Fintry, Stirlingshire, June 4, 1806, died in Edinburgh, Jan. 17, 1882. Portrait painter, pupil of the Trustees Academy, Edinburgh, under Sir William Allan. Noted as a portrait painter, and had many distinguished sitters, among whom were Lord Brougham, Viscount Melville,