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 Academy; then of the St. Petersburg Academy, where his Assassination of Czar Fédor Borissovich was awarded the second prize. He painted portraits almost exclusively for several years, but in 1869 he exhibited the Carnival in St. Petersburg, now belonging to the Emperor. After travelling in the East, he painted in 1876 the Transport of the Holy Carpet from Mecca to Cairo, also in the Emperor's Collection, which was exhibited with his Bashi-Bazouks at the Exposition universelle, Paris, 1878. Member of, and professor in, the St. Petersburg Academy. Other works: Roussalki (Water Nymphs), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Peter the Great in his Workshop; Player on the Psalterion; Russian Wedding-Feast (1885), Charles William Schumann, New York. Portraits: Emperor Alexander II. (1881); Princess Yourievski and Family; Family of Grand-Duchess Marie Paulovna. Vladimir Makovski, his brother, is a genre painter.

MALADE IMAGINAIRE, Charles Robert Leslie, South Kensington Museum, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. × 3 ft. 2 in. Scene from Molière's "Malade imaginaire." Argan, pillowed in a chair at foot of his bed, appeals anxiously to M. Purgon, who is leaving the room in a rage; Toinette, behind her master's chair, enjoys the success of her stratagem, while Beralde regards the doctor with contempt. R. Academy, 1843.

MALARIA, Ernest Hébert, Luxembourg Museum, Paris; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. 4 in. A boat gliding along the waters of the Pontine marshes between flat shores, under a sky heavy with pestilential vapours, carrying a poor family more or less affected by the miasma. Salon, 1850. Study, G. I. Seney sale, New York, 1885. See photo-*gravure, Vol. II., page 220.

MALBONE, EDWARD G., born in Newport, R. I., Aug., 1777, died in Savannah, Ga., May 7, 1807. Miniature painter, self-*taught. Painted with success in many cities of the United States; visited London in 1801 and the West Indies in 1806. His best known work is The Hours, in which the present, past, and future are represented by female figures. It was purchased from the Malbone heirs for $1,200, and is now in the Providence Athenæum.

MALCHIN, KARL (WILHELM CHRISTIAN), born at Kröpelin, Mecklenburg, May 14, 1838. Landscape painter, pupil of Weimar Art School under Theodor Hagen. Works: View near Bützow, Mill at Eixen, View of Schwerin (1867); Summer Morning on Lake (1874), Winter Landscape (1876), Pond among Willows (1878), Schwerin Gallery; North German Landscape with Sheep (1877), National Gallery, Berlin; Beginning of Spring; Evening in Autumn after Rain (1883); Village on the Baltic (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 350; Leixner, Mod. K., ii. 113; Schlie, 44.

MALDEGHEM, ROMAIN EUGÈNE VAN, born at Denterghem, West Flanders, April 23, 1813, died at Brussels, Aug. 26, 1867. History painter, pupil of Bruges and Antwerp Academies, at the latter under Wappers; obtained in 1838 the first prize at Ghent and the grand prize for Rome at Antwerp; visited Italy and the East, especially Palestine, in 1838-42, and settled in Brussels, whither he returned, after having, from 1852, been director of Bruges Academy. Works: Fortune Teller (1836), Bruges Museum; Oath of Hannibal (1838), Antwerp Museum; Charles V. in his Cell (1838), Ghent Museum; Rubens finding his Wife Dead (1838); Madonna, Virgin appearing to St. Ignatius, St. Alphonso before the Virgin, St. Joseph's Convent, Brussels; St. Simon receiving Scapulary from the Virgin, Allegory of France (1840); Elijah comforted by the Angel; Nativity; St. Dominick receiving Rosary from the Virgin; Eleazar and Rebekah; Louis the Kind-Hearted giving St. Theodolphus his Freedom; St. Anthony receiving Pilgrims; Assumption; Sermon on Mount; Flight into Egypt; St. Louis of Gonzaga; Galileo in