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 Vernet; after his return, about 1833, settled in Cologne; painted especially battles, animals, and equestrian portraits. Works: Scenes from Greek War of Independence; Death of Adolphus of Nassau; Kosciusko taken Prisoner; Napoleon and his Generals; Elector Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg in Battle of Nuremberg (School of Cadets, Berlin); Blücher's Rescue in Battle of Ligny; Lion Hunt; Lions Fighting (1835), Frederic William IV. of Prussia returning from Parade, Cologne Museum; Panorama of French Army under General Hoche crossing the Rhine (1838-41); Diorama of Battle of Kulm; View of Castle Stolzenfels at Sunset (1843; last three together with his brother Nicolas).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 263; Merlo, Nachrichten, 280; Raczynski, i. 238.

MEIXNER, LUDWIG, born in Munich in 1828. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Bernhard Stange; visited Norway and Sweden in 1848-51; excels in moonlight scenes. Works: View in English Park near Munich; Vöhring near Munich; Moonlight Landscape, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Lake Constance with Cloud Effect; Landscape at Moonrise; View on the Untersberg; Coast Scene; Moonlight Night on Swedish Coast; Venice; The Auer Kirche near Munich by Moonlight (1884), New Pinakothek, Munich.—D. Kunstbl. (1857), 261; Müller, 363.

MELANTHIUS (Melanthus), painter of the Sicyonian school; pupil of Pamphilus, about 332 He was a fellow-student of Apelles, by whom he was considered superior to himself in composition. Pliny says (xxxv. 32-[50]), he was one of the four great painters (the others being Apelles, Echion, and Nicomachus) who executed their immortal works with four colours only, white, yellow, red, and black. The only one of his pictures mentioned represented Aristratus of Sicyon standing beside the chariot of the Goddess of Victory, which Nealces preserved from destruction.—Plut. Arat., 13; Brunn, ii. 142.

MELBYE, (DANIEL HERMAN) ANTON, born in Copenhagen, Feb. 13, 1818, died in Paris, Jan. 10, 1875. Marine painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Eckersberg, and much influenced by Rumohr; visited, on board of Danish men-of-war, the North, Baltic, and Mediterranean seas, obtained a prize in 1843, went to Stockholm and Hamburg in 1846, and the year after to Paris, where the Duc de Decazes became his patron. In 1853 he accompanied the French embassy to Constantinople, painted there for the Sultan, and after his return for Napoleon III.; revisited Copenhagen in 1858, and having worked for a while in Hamburg returned to Paris. Member of Copenhagen Academy; L. of Honour, 1854; Order of Danebrog, 1858. Works: Ships Cruising; Eddystone Lighthouse (1846), Copenhagen Gallery; Boat in Danger; Floating Ice on Coast of Greenland; Morning after Storm; Roadstead of Copenhagen; do. of Constantinople; French Men-of-War on Greek Coast; Naval Battle in Kjöge Bay (1855), Copenhagen Gallery; Roadstead with Ships (1850), Corvette (1851), Solitude of the Sea (1852), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Agitated Sea after Sunset (1867), Schwerin Gallery; Moonlight on Bosphorus.—Art Journal (1875), 280; Kunst-Chronik, x. 330; Sig. Müller, 250; Ny illustrerad Tidning, 1875; Weilbach, 471; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiv. 354.

MELBYE, (KNUD FREDERIK) VILHELM (HANNIBAL), born at Elsinore, May 14, 1824. Marine painter, brother of Anton, pupil of Copenhagen Academy. Works: Pilot Boat in Stormy Weather (1847), Copenhagen Gallery; Roadstead of