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 *tically. Engraved by R. Staines. Royal Academy, 1840. Vernon Collection.—Waagen, Treasures, i. 373; Cat. Nat. Gal.

MAN, CORNELIS DE, born at Delft in 1621, died there in 1706. Dutch school; portrait and interior painter; went early to Italy, and for nine years studied in Rome, Florence, and Venice; made his reputation with a portrait of the Regents of the Corporation of Surgeons at Delft, where he entered the guild in 1642, and was its dean in 1661-63, and repeatedly afterwards, last in 1696. Works: Peasant Wedding, Hague Museum; Rustic Interior (1687), Rotterdam Museum; Interior of Gothic Church, Darmstadt Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 197; Kramm, iv. 1049.

MAN WITH FALCON, Rembrandt, Grosvenor House; wood, H 3 ft. 8 in. × 3 ft. 2 in.; signed, dated 1643. A young man, seen to knees, with light hair, holding a falcon on his wrist. His wife (wood, same size), in a rich dress and ornaments, with a fan in her hand. The two withdrawn at Grand-*pré sale at 40,000 francs.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 166.

MAN WITH A GLOVE. See Homme au Gant.

MAN WITH THE HOE (L'homme à la houe), Jean François Millet, lately in Defoer Collection, Paris. A sturdy peasant, wearied with toil, has stopped to rest, and stands, his body half bent over, leaning upon the short clumsy hoe used by labourers in France. Painted in 1862; Salon, 1863; sold to M. Crabbe, Brussels; Defoer bought it for 175,000 francs; at his sale, Paris (1886), 57,100 francs. Etched by Bracquemond.—Sensier, 236.

MAN IN THE LEATHER BELT (L'homme à la ceinture de cuir), Gustave Courbet, Luxembourg Museum, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 7 in. Portrait of the painter in his youth. Half-length, in a blouse with a broad leathern belt, into which is thrust the thumb of his left hand; his right elbow leans upon a table, and his face is supported on the back of his hand. Sale of Courbet's works, Paris (1881), 26,000 francs, bought by State.

MAN WITH THE PINKS (Mann mit den Nelken), Jan van Eyck, Berlin Museum; wood, H. 1 ft. 4 in. × 1 ft. Bust portrait, three-quarters life-size, in gray doublet lined with fur and high fur cap; in right hand, two red pinks, and in left, which is raised, two white ones. From Suermondt Collection, 1874.

MAN PROPOSES—GOD DISPOSES, Sir Edwin Landseer, Holloway Institute, Egham, near London; canvas. Suggested by the finding of the relics of Sir John Franklin. In an Arctic landscape a hut with relics strewn around, a large white bear with a bone in its mouth, and another sprawled on the ice dragging part of the Union Jack from beneath a spar. Painted in 1864; belonged to E. V. Coleman. Stoke Park; sold at his sale (1881) to Thomas Holloway for £6,615.—Stephens, 105; Art Journal (London, 1882), 317.

MAN OF SORROWS, Andrea Mantegna, Copenhagen Museum; wood, tempera, H. 1 ft. 6-3/4 in. × 2 ft. 6-1/2 in.; signed. Christ enthroned, with two angels behind holding the corners of his winding-sheet; to the left, Jerusalem at sunset; to the right, Golgotha. Painted about 1489; formerly in collection of Cardinal Valenti, Secretary of State under Benedict XIV.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 403.

MANCINELLI, GIUSEPPE, born at Naples in 1813, died at Palazzuolo di Castrocielo, Province Siracusa, Italy, May 24, 1875. History painter, pupil of Naples Academy, then studied in Rome. Although of no extraordinary talent, he did much towards the promotion of art at Naples under contrary circumstances; became professor at Naples Academy in 1850, and later its president. Member of several academies. Works: St. Charles Borromeo healing the Plague-stricken, S. Carlo all' Arena, Naples; Curtain for the Teatro San Carlo, ib.; Madonna degli Angeli; Christ in the Garden; St. Clara taking the Robe of St Francis of