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 Marquis of Lorne, Duke of Buccleugh, Hugh Blair, and Norman McLeod. He was a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, of which he was elected president in 1876, and he was knighted by the Queen the same year.—Academy (1882), i. 71; Athenæum (1882), i. 132.

MACRINO D'ALBA, born at Alba, died before 1528. Real name Giovanni Jacopo (Giangiacomo) Fava; also called de Alladio. Piedmontese school, history painter; probably studied in Milan, flourished about 1500 and worked at Alba, Asti, and Turin. An excellent painter, of great expressiveness in his countenances, brilliant colouring, masterly treatment of details, fine feeling for chiaroscuro, and solid impasto; the first Piedmontese artist who made advances towards the realistic style of the Paduans. Works: Altarpiece in six panels with Madonna Enthroned (1496), Certosa, Pavia; Madonna with Saints and Angels (1498), Altar Wing with SS. Louis and Paul (1506), do. with St. John the Baptist, St. Lawrence and St. Rose, Descent from the Cross, Several other Altar Wings with Saints, Gallery, Turin; St. Agatha, Academy, ib.; Madonna and Saints, Städel Gallery, Frankfort.—Lanzi (Roscoe), iii. 293; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 502; Meyer, Künstl. Lex., i. 169.

McWHIRTER, JOHN, born at Inglis Green, near Edinburgh, March 27, 1839. Landscape painter; pupil of art-school of Board of Manufacturers, Edinburgh; has travelled in Norway, Belgium, Italy, the Tyrol, and other countries in search of subjects. Became an A.R.S.A. in 1864, and A.R.A. in 1878; has resided in London since 1869. In 1877 he visited the United States, spending considerable time in California, making studies in the Yosemite Valley. Works: Arch of Titus, Campagna (1864); Temple of Vesta at Rome (1865); Old Edinburgh (1868); Loch Coruisk—Isle of Skye (1869); Daybreak, Depths of the Forest (1870); Isle of Skye (1872); Fisherman's Haven (1873); Land of the Mountain and the Flood (1875); Lady of the Woods (1876, Taylor sale, 1883, £643); Over the Border, Source of a River (1877); The Vanguard, Three Graces (1878); Last Days of Autumn, Valley by the Sea (Lee sale, 1879, £1,155), Highland Solitude, Highland Pastoral (1879); June, Lord of the Glen, May (1880); Roses and Rabbits, Mountain Tops, Sunday in Highlands, Summer Evening—Venice (1881); Ossian's Grave, Highland Auction, Rainy Day—Venice (1882); Sunset Fires, Nature's Mirror, Highland Harvest (1883); Sermon by the Sea, Windings of the Forth, Home of the Grizzly Bear, Forest Solitude (1884); Track of a Hurricane (1885); Three Witches (1886).—Portfolio (1879), 93; Art Journal (1879), 9.

MACY, WILLIAM STARBUCK, born in New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 11, 1853. Landscape painter; pupil of National Academy. Studied in Munich four years, two of them under Professor Velten. Sketched in Dakota and Minnesota in 1879. Studios in New Bedford and New York. Works: Lake Starnberg, Early Winter (1877); Meadows near Munich, Landscape (1878); Early Summer (1879); Bavaria near Tyrol, Forest Scene (1880); Edge of the Forest—Bavaria (1881); On the Westport River (1882); Still Water on the Seine (1883); Old Forest in Winter, Early Winter, Winter Sunset (1884); Old Mill (1885); January in Bermuda, Somerset Bay, ib. (1886).—Sheldon, 204.

MADARÁSZ, VICTOR, born at Fünfkirchen, Hungary, about 1828. History painter, pupil in Vienna of Waldmüller; went in 1857 to Paris, where he met with success. Gold medal, Paris, 1861. Works: Episode in History of Hungary (1855); Clara Zach; Helen Zrinyi; Meeting of Zrinyi and Frangepan, Pesth Museum; Beheading of Ladislaus Hunyádi.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), xi. 191; Wurzbach, xvi. 237.