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 MENEZES, Dom LUIS DE MIRANDA-PEREIRA, Visconde de, born at Oporto in 1820. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil in Rome of Overbeck and Ferd. Cavalleri; attained to great reputation, especially in his native country. Member of Lisbon Academy. Medal in Oporto in 1865. Chamberlain, president of bank of credit, attaché of Portuguese embassy in Rome, knight and commander of several orders. Works: Old Village Musician; Praying Monk; Christ at Emmaus; Old Beggar; Death of Marco Bozzaris; Chestnut Seller; Calabrese Shepherd, Lisbon Academy; Blind Soldier; Young Shepherdess from the Abruzzi; St. Peter of Alcantara; St. Peter the Apostle; Halt before Tavern; Salvator Rosa among the Robbers.—Müller, 364.

MENGELBERG, EGIDIUS, born in Cologne, April 8, 1770, died there, October 26, 1849. Portrait painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy; copied the most famous pictures of the Düsseldorf Gallery and painted portraits in Cologne and Coblentz in 1790-1800; lived at Elberfeld in 1800-6, and settled in Cologne in 1821. Works: Portraits of Kleber, Bernadotte, Archbishop Ferdinand August; Portrait of Wallraf, Cologne Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 347; Merlo, 285.

MENGELBERG, OTTO, born at Düsseldorf in 1817. History and portrait painter, son of Egidius, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn and Schadow; visited Munich in 1842, then painted portraits in Cologne until 1847, when he visited Paris, and settled in Düsseldorf in 1848. Works: Death of Moses (1836), Judith (1837), Archangel Michael (1838), Apostle Church, Cologne; Loreley (1839), Emperor Henry IV. (1840), Römer, Frankfort; Ecce Homo (1847); Prodigal Son (1848); Pray First! (1860); Resurrection and Four Evangelists (1862); Disciples at Emmaus (1866); Walk of Jesus to Jerusalem (1876); Peter's Penitence; Melanchthon; Christ at Gethsemane.—Merlo, 185; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 582; Müller, 364; W. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 40.

MENGS, ANTON RAPHAEL, born at Aussig, Bohemia, May 12, 1728, died in Rome, June 29, 1779. German school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Ismael Mengs, a distinguished miniature and enamel painter, who early caused him to study the great masters in Dresden and afterwards in Rome, where the King of Poland, Augustus III., permitted him to continue his studies in 1741-44, and again in 1746-49; he was made court-painter at the age of twenty-three, and removed to Rome in 1751, stopping at Venice for five months. He was an eclectic who, living at a time of extreme degradation in art, excited great admiration by his skill in composition and his knowledge of technical processes, but, as he had little originality or warmth of feeling, his works have not stood the test of time. Cardinal Albani and Pope Clement XIV. employed him to paint for them at Rome, and Charles III. of Spain called him to Madrid in 1761, where as court-painter he received a high salary. His writings on painting and painters contain many refined observations and valuable notices of remarkable pictures. Works: Adoration of the Shepherds, Magdalen, St. Peter, sixteen portraits, Madrid Museum; Clement XIII., Brera Gallery, Milan; do., Bologna Gallery; Portrait of himself, Uffizi, Florence; Christ, Stuttgart Museum; St. Joseph incited to Flight by Angel, Madonna, Annunciation, St. Peter Enthroned, two portraits, Museum, Vienna; Cleopatra and Augustus, St. Erasmus, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Nativity, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; do., and St. Christopher carrying the Infant Christ, Head of Christ, do. of Magdalen, Harrach Gallery, ib.; Angel appearing to Joseph,