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 Vienna, 1873; Order of Leopold. Works: Martyrdom of St. Stephen (1866), Ghent Museum; Pietà; Burial of Trappist Monk, Courtray Museum; Defence of Brabant Peasants in 1797, Brussels Museum; Frescos in St. Joseph's, Louvain; Brazier's Shop (1880); Casting of Steel (1881); Lassitude (1882); Miner's Descent (1885).—Müller, 368.

MEURANT. See Murant.

MEURON, ALBERT DE, born at Neuchâtel; contemporary. Landscape and animal painter, son and pupil of Maximilien de Meuron, then in Paris pupil of Gleyre and of the École des Beaux Arts. Gold medal, Berlin, 1857. Works: Chamois Hunters at Early Morn (1853), Dying Husband (1853), Berne Museum; Cows at Drinking Place, Descent of Cattle in Summer (1863); Chamois Hunters, Cows in Pasture (1865); Bergamo Shepherds, Souvenir de Clarens (1866); Negress carrying Fruit and Basket (1866), Berne Museum; David Victor over Goliath, Pasture on Road to the Faulhorn (1858), Col de la Bernina with Herds (1864), Place de Capri (1868), Old Fir Trees in Jura Mountains, Neuchâtel Museum; Allegory of the Jungfrau (1883).—Bellier, ii. 81; D. Kunstbl. (1854), 462; (1856), 364; (1857), 105; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 233.

MEURON, MAXIMILIEN DE, born at Neuchâtel in 1785, died in 1868. Landscape painter of considerable fame in his own country, from which he usually drew his subjects. Works: View in Ancient Rome (Baths of Caracalla), View in Modern Rome (1816), Lake of Wallenstadt (1846), The Great Oak, Bridge of Corchiano, Valley of Naefels, Camp of Valangin in 1831, The Great Eiger seen from the Wegern Alp, Neuchâtel Museum.

MEYER VON BREMEN. See Meyer, Johann Georg.

MEYER, DIETHELM, born at Baden, Aargau, Jan. 28, 1840, died in Munich, Oct. 13, 1884. Genre painter, pupil of Paul Deschwanden at Stanz, then of Anschütz at the Munich Academy, and of Cabanel and Breton in Paris; settled in Munich in 1869; spent his summers in his fatherland, where he painted Swiss Alpine life, such as mountain festivals and hunting episodes, which made him popular throughout Germany. Works: Woman returning from Harvest, Woman and Two Children on a Mule, Basle Museum; Young Girl of Simmenthal (1878), Berne Museum.—Academy, Nov. 8, 1884; Tscharner, D. bild. K. in d. Schweiz im Jahre 1884, 57.

MEYER, EDGAR, born in Tyrol; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy. Works: Sixty architectural and landscape views in Italy and Tyrol (1878); San Remo (1883); Schwarzenstein Lake, Innsbruck Museum; Storm Landscape, National Gallery, Berlin; Graveyard in South Tyrol, View in Mola di Gaeta (1884).—Müller, 368; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 184.

MEYER, ERNST, born at Altona, May 11, 1797, died in Rome, Feb. 1, 1861. Genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and in Munich of Cornelius; spent some time at Naples and Amalfi, and in 1833 settled in Rome; travelled over nearly the whole of Europe in 1844, and visited Paris and Switzerland in 1848-51. Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1843; Order of Dannebrog. Works: Two scenes from Roman Street Life; Interior of Fisherman's Hut near Naples; House in Tivoli (Villa Rosenstein, near Stuttgart); Lazzaroni Family (1831), National Gallery, Berlin; Public Letter-Writer (1833), Neapolitan Fisherman's Family, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Old Fisherman looking after the Wind, Boy taken to Monastery by his Parents, The Two Friends, Little Girl by a Spring, Boy presented to Parson (1846), Gallery, Copenhagen; several in Thorwaldsen Museum, ib.; Italian Women singing, Old Franciscan Monk receiving Letter from a Peasant, Harrach Gallery, Vienna.—Allgem. Zeitg. (1861), 58; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1835), 18; (1844), 21; Jordan, 198; Weilbach, 480.