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 MESZÖLY, GÉZA VON, born in Hungary; contemporary. Landscape painter, studied in Munich. Medal, Munich, 1883. Works: Fishermen's Huts on Platten Lake, Pesth Museum; Twilight on Platten Lake, Banks of do., do. with Fowls (1883); Water Carrier on Banks of the Theiss (1885).—Müller, 367.

METELLLI (Mitelli), AGOSTINO, born in Bologna, March 16, 1609, died in Madrid, Aug. 2, 1660. Bolognese school; pupil of the Carracci and of Falcetta the architect; became the collaborator of Colonna, and after executing many works with him in Bologna, Rome, and other cities, accompanied him in 1659 to Spain, where he died.—Malvasia, ii. 345; Lanzi, iii. 137; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Siret, 594.

METTENLEITER, JOHANN JAKOB, born at Grosskuchen, Würtemberg, Aug. 9, 1750, died in St. Petersburg in 1825. History and portrait painter, pupil at Schwäbisch Gmünd of Urban, and in Mannheim of Brand, then worked in Speyer; went to Holland, and thence, as a soldier, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he earned by portrait painting enough to buy himself off; returned to Amsterdam; went in 1775 for one year to Italy, and then to Munich, where he copied especially after Mieris and Dou; settled in 1778 at Augsburg, whence he went again to Amsterdam, then to Vienna, and, in 1786, to St. Petersburg. Works: Resurrection (1785), Augsburg Cathedral; two genre scenes with portraits of Obwexer Family; two scenes from Götz von Berlichingen.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 524.

METRODORUS, Greek painter and philosopher, of Athens, 2d century Probably identical with writer on architecture of same name. When L. Æmilius Paulus asked the Athenians (168 ) to send him a tutor for his children and a painter to celebrate his triumph, Metrodorus was selected as uniting both qualifications in his own person.—Pliny, xxv. [135].

METSU, GABRIEL, born in Leyden in 1630, died in Amsterdam, buried Oct. 24, 1667. Dutch school; genre and portrait painter, son of and probably first instructed by Jacob Metsu (a Fleming, who had settled in Holland); then pupil of, or at least influenced by, Gerard Dou, and afterwards by Rembrandt; entered the guild of Leyden in 1648, but left his native place in 1650, and settled in Amsterdam, where he married in 1658, and took the freedom of that city in 1659. This distinguished master shows in his style the influence of Terburg and Dou; in refinement of drawing and picturesque composition no painter of small subjects equalled him. In pictures of his earlier period a warm harmony of great clearness predominates; in his later works the tone is cooler, finely balanced, occasionally somewhat spotty in effect. He painted chiefly scenes from the upper classes of society, yet he took pleasure in representing market scenes, huntsmen, cook-maids, and the like. He treated mythological and allegorical subjects exceptionally well. Works: Duet, Music Lesson, Drowsy Landlady, National Gallery, London; Female Fruit Dealer, Gentleman playing Violoncello, Girl drinking Champagne, Portrait of himself, Buckingham Palace, ib.; Woman selling Herrings, Lady caressing Spaniel, Horseman before a House, Bridgewater Gallery, ib.; Sleeping Huntsman, Sir Richard Wallace, ib.; Young Girl Drawing, Old Woman Reading, Lord Ashburton, ib.; Dictating the Letter, Gentleman Writing, Lady reading a Letter, Mr. Hope, ib.; Intruder, Mr. Baring, ib.; Corset Bleu, Mr. Neeld, ib.; Corset Rouge, W. Long, ib.; Dead Hen Suspended, Madrid Museum; Woman taken in Adultery, Vegetable Market of Amsterdam, Lady and Officer, Music Lesson, Reveller, Apple Peeler, Chemist, Portrait of