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 (1873); Alp in Tyrol by Moonlight (1874); View near Wasserburg (1875).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 94; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 243.

MAYER, FRIEDRICH KARL, born at Tölz, Bavaria, Jan. 3, 1824. Architecture painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Schlotthauer and Clemens Zimmermann; visited Belgium in 1849, and settled as assistant of Heideloff in Nuremberg, where he afterwards became professor at the Industrial Art-School, and in 1875 conservator of the Royal Galleries. Bavarian Order of St. Michael and Cross of Merit, Prussian Order of the Crown, Saxon Order of Ernest. Works: Shrine of Holy Sacrament in St. Lawrence's, Nuremberg; Grave of Sebaldus, ib.; Castle Fröhlich Wiederkunft; View in Rothenburg; Church in Berchtesgaden; City Hall in Brunswick; Choir of Augsburg Cathedral; Nave of same; View in Magdeburg Cathedral; Bridal Door of Sebaldus Church and St. Eucharius Chapel, Nuremberg; View in Halberstadt Cathedral (Munich Exhibition, 1883).—Müller, 360; Schasler's K. Zeitg. (1872), No. 11.

MAYER, KARL, born in Vienna, Jan. 18, 1810, died there, June 8, 1876. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Gselhofer, studied from nature in Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, North Italy, and on the Rhine; lived in Rome in 1842-48, and became professor at Vienna Academy in 1851. Order of Francis Joseph, and Papal Order of Gregory in 1860. Works: Prometheus rejecting Pandora (1842), Foundation of Gastein (1837), Vienna Museum: Convent Yard of S. Giovanni e Paolo in Rome (1843), New Pinakothek, Munich; Lancelot du Lac robbed by a Fairy; Italian Peasants; St. Catharine, Dominicans, Vienna; Frescos in Altlerchenfeld Church, Vienna.—Kunst-Chronik, xii. 463; Wurzbach, xviii. 149.

MAYER, LOUIS, born at Neckarbischofsheim in 1791, died at Stuttgart in 1843. Landscape painter, pupil in Stuttgart of Steinkopf, travelled in Suabia, Switzerland, Tyrol, Styria, and (1830-32) in Italy. Works: Olevano with Volsk and Albano Mountains, View near Ariccia, Stuttgart Museum; Subiaco; Hohenstaufen; Upper Valley of the Danube; Neckar Valley above Berg.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1843), 370; (1844), 27; Schwäb. Merkur, Nov. 30, 1843.

MAYER, LUDWIG, born at Kaniow, Galicia, in 1834. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Kupelwieser; went in 1857 to Venice, in 1862 to Dresden, and thence through Germany and Belgium to Paris, then spent two years at Rome. After Kupelwieser's death he became a follower of Führich and Rahl. Prize of Vienna Academy for his cartoon, Jerusalem. Works: St. Martin; Christ in the House of Lazarus; St. Lawrence (1863); Jerusalem after Death of Christ (cartoon, 1866); Baptism of Christ, St. Elizabeth's, Vienna; Judas receiving the Money; Christ before Pilate; Banquet of Belshazzar; Visit to Scene of Fire; Music and Painting, Vienna Museum; Christ (1880); Shepherd Boy's Dream of Happiness, Pietà (1883). In fresco: Commerce, Charity, Science, Education, The Arts, Regimen, Industry (1885), City Hall, Vienna.—Kunst-Chronik, xxi. 118; Müller, 361; Wurzbach, xviii. 160.

MAYNARD, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY, born in Washington, D. C., March 5, 1843. Figure painter, pupil of Royal Academy, Antwerp; painted on the Continent in 1869-74, and again in 1877-78. Elected an A.N.A. in 1882; N.A. in 1885; Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works: A Musician (1879); Bachelor's Breakfast (1880); Portrait of Frank D. Millet, Navigators (1881); Portrait of his Father, Bathers (1882); Ancient Mariner (1883); Old Court Yard, Aurora, Winter Reverie, Around the World (1884); Grand-*fatherly Advice, The Strange Gods (1885).

MAYNO, FRAY JUAN BAUTISTA, born in 1569, died in Madrid, April 1, 1649. Spanish school; pupil of El Greco; became a Dominican monk in convent of S. Pedro Martyr, Toledo, and acquired considerable reputation for his altarpieces. Appointed