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 of Munich Academy. Works: Landscape in Approaching Storm; Moonlight Landscape (1837); Landscape with Ruin of Castle and Torrent.—D. Kunstbl. (1852), 51; Kunst-Chronik, iv. 144; Raczynski, ii. 343; Söltl, 291.

MEULEN, ADAM FRANS VAN DER, born in Brussels, Jan. 11, 1632, died in Paris, Oct. 15, 1690. Flemish school; genre, landscape, and battle painter, pupil of Peeter Snayers. He became court-painter to Louis XIV., was lodged at the Gobelins, had a pension of 6,000 livres, and accompanied the king to Flanders to paint his battles. Member of the Academy of Painting, 1673; counsellor, 1681; first do. 1686. His panoramic views are painted with facility, but, apart from their historical interest, are of no great value. Works: Entry of Louis XIV. into Arras, do. into Dinant, Siege of Maestricht, View of Fontainebleau, and nineteen others, Louvre; Army of Louis XIV. encamped before Tournai, Brussels Museum; Convoy in Mountainous Landscape (1661), Rotterdam Museum; Surrender of City in Lorraine, Basle Museum; Attack of Cavalry, Musée Rath, Geneva; Winter Landscape with Cavalry Skirmish, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Convoy passing through Village (1660), Augsburg Gallery; View of Versailles, Berlin Museum; Entry of Duke of Alva into Brussels, Travelling Train of a Queen of France, Cassel Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish, Darmstadt Museum; Excursion of Louis XIV. to Vincennes, Entry of Louis XIV. into Arras in 1667, Dresden Museum; View of Fontainebleau, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Taking of Dole in 1668, Siege of Tournay, Louis XIV. receiving an Ambassador, while bombarding Oudenarde, Taking of Lille, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Louis XIV. advancing towards Dinan, Schleissheim Gallery; Group of Horsemen, Cavalry Combat, Schwerin Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish, Museum, Vienna; Theatre on Market Square, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Sea and Cavalry Fight near Shore, Harrach Gallery, ib.; Louis XIV. and Suite near a Dutch Town besieged by him, Skirmishes (2), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Attack of Cavalry, Madrid Museum; Battle of Treviri, Siege of Chivasso in 1639, Landscape with Travellers and Horses, Horse Market, Turin Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish, Vienna Museum; five pictures, Buckingham Palace, London; Fleet Review at Dunkirk, Lord Scarsdale, Kedleton Hall; Progress of Louis XIV., National Gallery, Edinburgh; Cavalry Combat (2), New York Museum.—Fétis, Les artistes belges à l'étranger, ii, 104.—Immerzeel, ii. 221; Jal, 860; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 340; Michiels, ix. 282; Burger, Musées, ii. 346.

MEULEMANS, ADRIAAN, born at Dordrecht in 1766, died at Scheveningen in 1834. Portrait and interior painter, pupil of Michiel Versteeg, in whose style he painted scenes by lamp- and candle-light. Member of Brussels Academy in 1819. Works: Old Woman reading, Kitchen by Lamp-light (1817), Amsterdam Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 219; Kramm, iv. 1107.

MEULENER (Meulenaer, Molenaer), PEETER, born in Antwerp, baptized Feb. 18, 1602, died there, buried Nov. 27, 1654. Flemish school; landscape and battle painter, grandson of Cornelis Molenaer, perhaps a pupil of Peeter Snayers; master of the guild in 1631-32. Works: Two war scenes (1644), Madrid Museum; Battle of Duke Christian of Brunswick (1646), Brunswick Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish (1650), Nostitz Gallery, Prague.—Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 110; Van den Branden, 668.

MEUNIER, CONSTANTIN, born at Brussels in 1831. History and genre painter, pupil of Brussels Academy under Navez. Gold medal in Brussels, 1869; medal in