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 MAILLART, DIOGÈNE ULYSSE NAPOLÉON, born at Chaussée-du-Bois-de-l'Écu (Oise), Oct. 28, 1840. History and portrait painter, pupil of Cornu, Laemmlein, and Cogniet. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1864. Medals: 1870; 2d class, 1873. Works: Thetis arming Achilles; Homer giving Drink to Achilles, Hero killing a Monster (1874); Judgment of Paris (1879); Prometheus Chained (1880); Same subject (1882); Stephen Marcel listening to the Ordinance (1883); Death of Correus (1885).—Bellier, ii. 11.

MAILLE-SAINT-PRIX, LOUIS (ANTOINE), born in Paris, Nov. 17, 1796. Landscape painter, pupil of Hersent and Picot. Medals: 3d class, 1841; 2d class, 1844. Works: View of the Pont de Breuil, Ruins of St. Jean-de-l'Ile, Village of Soisy (1831); Bridge of Olivet (1835); Foggy Morning (1841); Valley of Corbeil (1844); The Rhine, Souvenirs of Mt. Dore, Souvenir of Mayence (1848); Interior of a Turkish House in Damascus, First Cataract of the Nile, Village of Zoldoni (1852); Evening (1859); A Landscape (1863); Environs of Thion, Valley of Étiolles (1864).—Bellier, ii. 11; Larousse.

MAILLOT, THÉODORE PIERRE NICOLAS, born in Paris, July 30, 1826. History and portrait painter, pupil of Drölling and Picot, and of the École des Beaux Arts, won the 2d prix de Rome in 1850, and the grand prix in 1854. Medal, 1867; L. of Honour, 1870. Works: Zenobia on the Banks of the Araxes (1850); Abraham washing the Angels' Feet (1854); Christ and the Woman of Samaria (1863); St. John (1867); Fénélon in Battle of Malplaquet, 1709 (1870); Apotheosis and Transportation of Relics of St. Marcel, Notre Dame, Paris; The Three Theological Virtues, St. Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, ib.—Bellier, ii. 12.

MAINARDI, SEBASTIANO, born at San Gimignano, died (probably in Florence) in Sept., 1513. Florentine school; brother-in-law and pupil of Ghirlandajo, and his assistant in some of his greatest works in Florence and S. Gimignano. Though inferior in every way, his work has been sometimes confounded with that of his master, as in the Baroncelli Chapel, S. Croce. Most of his works are at S. Gimignano. There are a fine portrait and a Madonna by him in the Berlin Museum, and a Holy Family, attributed to Ghirlandajo, in the Louvre.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 493; Vasari, v. 74.

MAINCENT, GUSTAVE, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Pils and Cabasson. Medal, 3d class, 1883. Works: Views in and near Paris (1870, 1873, 1874, 1877); Champs-Elysées (1878); Mill de la Galette (1880); Place Pigale (1881); Slaughter-House at Méricourt (1882);	Village Wedding, Pont-Marie (1883);	At Saint-Ouen, Return from Fishing (1884); Notre-Dame Bridge (1885).

MAIR (Mayr), JOHANN ULRICH, born at Augsburg in 1630, died there in 1704. History and portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt and of Jordaens; went to England and Italy, and after his return to Augsburg won great fame as a portrait painter; was invited to the imperial and other courts, and made court-painter to the Emperor Leopold. Works: Apostle Philip reading (1653), Museum, Vienna; Fortune Teller, Tobias and the Angel, Schönborn Gallery, ib.; Artist's portrait (1650), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; A Philosopher, Brunswick Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 141; Sandrart, ii. 329.

MAISIAT, JOANNY, born at Lyons, May 5, 1824. Fruit and flower painter, pupil of the Lyons Art School, and of Henri Lehmann. Medals: 1864 and 1867; 2d class, 1872. Works: Sweet-brier in Spring (1863), Valenciennes Museum; Gathered Fruits (1864); Bouquet of Moss Roses (1867); Border of Path on a Hill in Touraine (1867), Flowers and Fruits (1868), Luxembourg Museum; The First Flowers; Fruits on the Ground (1873); Violets