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 Alicante; View of Copenhagen Harbour.—Sig. Müller, 255; Weilbach, 474.

MELCHIOR, WILHELM, born at Nymphenburg in 1813, died in Munich, Sept. 9, 1860. Animal painter, son of Georg Wilhelm (landscape and portrait painter, 1780-1826), pupil of Munich Academy; fancied especially scenes after a chase. Works: Booty watched by Dogs, Fox caught by Dogs (1849), New Pinakothek, Munich; Before the Badger's Dwelling; Cat pinched by Crawfish. His brother Josef (born in 1810) was an esteemed painter of horses.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 291; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1848), 234; Vinc. Müller, Handb., 161.

MELDOLLA, ANDREA. See Schiavone, Andrea.

MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, Rubens, Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 6 ft. 1 in. × 9 ft. 4 in. Meleager presenting the head of the Calydonian boar to Atalanta, who is seated in a landscape at foot of a tree; between them stands Cupid; several dogs and implements of the chase, painted by Snyders, near the group. Landscape probably by Wildens. Taken to Paris in 1800; returned in 1815. Similar picture, engraved by Bartsch, Dresden Gallery; another, engraved by Bloemart, Blenheim sale (1886), Cavendish Bentinck, £520; a third in Madrid Museum.—Smith, ii. 84, 247; ix. 277.

By Rubens, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 10 ft. 4 in. × 13 ft. Attacking the Calydonian boar, which is at bay beside a fallen tree; several dogs are wounded, and a man lies dead at the feet of the beast; horsemen, with javelins, are galloping up to the aid of Meleager and Atalanta, who has just wounded the boar with an arrow. Animals by Snyders; landscape by Wildens. Etched by Prenner. Similar subject, with changes, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; another, engraved by Bolswert, Lady Stuart; a third in Madrid Museum.—Smith, ii. 88, 157, 275.

MELEM, HANS, born at Mehlem, near Bonn, in 1493. German school; flourished in Cologne as a contemporary, perhaps scholar, of the Master of the Death of the Virgin. His only certain work is a signed portrait of himself (1530), in the Munich Gallery. A triptych there, with Crucifixion and Saints, attributed to Melem, is by one of his pupils. He was inferior in drawing, execution, and colouring.—Förster, ii. 183; Kugler (Crowe), i. 228; Merlo, Nachrichten, 283; W. & W., ii. 497.

MÉLIDA, Don ENRIQUE, contemporary. Genre painter, pupil in Paris of Meissonier; paints ingenious genre scenes, eminently individualized, often humorous. Medal, 3d class, 1886. Works: Mass in Spain (1872), Luxembourg Museum; Round of the Santo Oficio; Antechamber of Prince de la Paz; Monkey-Story; Falling Flat; After the Procession; First Walk; Bull-Fight Lesson (1879); Illusions to the Winds (1880);	A Study, Disturbed Festival (1883); Herrar, o quitár el banco, Mardi-Gras before Theatre of Marcellus at Rome (1884); A Maja (1885); Carmen, Under the Elm-tree (1886); Consultation (Jubilee Exhib., Berlin, 1886).—La Ilustracion (1879), i. 283; (1881),	i. 138; ii. 375; (1883), i. 275; (1884), i. 341.

MÉLIN, JOSEPH, born in Paris, Feb. 14, 1814. History and animal painter, pupil of Paul Delaroche and David d'Angers. Medals: 3d class, 1843, 1855; 2d class, 1845, 1858. Works: St. James pardoning his Accuser (1843); Christ healing Blind Man (1845); Battle of Ravenna, English Dogs (1847); Asleep (1848); Dogs and Bull-Dogs, Boar-Hunting (1850); Deer's Cry, Dog Barking, Dogs in Leash (1855); Uncoupled, Relays, Pointer (1857); Starting Again, Newfoundland Dog (1861); Huntsman leading Dogs against a Boar, English Pointer (1863); Deer-Hunting (1864); English Dogs, Terriers (1865); Vendéean Dogs (1866); Bourbon Oxen (1867); Terriers Fighting, Heads of Vendéean Dogs (1868); English and Vendéean Dogs (1869); Nymph attaching a Dog to its Leash (1873); Deer's Cry (1874); At Fault (1879); Dogs' Heads, A Virgin (1880); Hallooing on Foot (1882); Lost Dog Barking, Two Scents (1883); Fly