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 Mountains (1878), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Village in Thuringia, Stettin Museum; Portrait of Emperor William (1880), Supreme Court, Leipsic; Lion's Head, Poulterer, Still-Life, Lady of the Manor, Monkeys Scat! (1883); Lioness in Love, Sleep and Death (1885); nine paintings representing Nature's Life in the different Seasons, National Gallery, Berlin.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), ii. 107; (1879), i. 10; (1881), ii. 403; (1884), i. 240; Kunst-Chronik, v. 130; xiv. 157; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 63; ii. 23, 121; Müller, 368; Nord und Süd, xvii. 198; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 303; D. Rundschau, xiii. 334; xx. 463; xxi. 149; Zeitschr. f. b. K., v. 123; vi. 109.

MEYERHEIM, WILHELM ALEXANDER, born in Dantzic in 1814, died in Berlin, Jan. 13, 1882. Military, genre, and horse painter, younger brother of Franz Eduard, with whom he followed the same course of study. Works: Three scenes from War in Schleswig in 1848; Winter Amusements.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1846), 207; D. Kunstbl. (1850), 178; (1854), 160; (1855), 383.

MEYIERING, AALBERT, born at Amsterdam in 1645, died there, July 17, 1714. Dutch school; landscape painter, son and pupil of Frederik Meyiering, a mediocre painter; then spent ten years in France and Italy, and after his return executed many orders for the royal castles; with his friend and travelling companion, Jan Glauber, he decorated Castle Soestdyk for Queen Mary of England, and is said to have lived also in Hamburg. Works: Two Landscapes with Nymphs, etc., Berlin Museum; do., Brunswick Museum; do., Schwerin Gallery; do., Moltke Collection, Copenhagen.—Hamburg K Lex., 304; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 493.

MEYNIER, CHARLES, born in Paris in 1769, died there in 1832. History painter, pupil of Vincent and of the École des Beaux Arts; won the grand prix de Rome in 1789; member of the Institute (1816) and professor in the École des Beaux Arts. Works: The 76th Regiment recovering its Colours at Innspruck (1808); Entry of the French into Berlin (1811), Versailles Museum; Phocion's Ashes, Phorbas presenting Œdipus to the Queen of Corinth (1814); St. Louis receiving the Communion (1817); St. Vincent de Paul and the Foundlings (1824); Rome giving Justinian's Code to the Earth (ceiling in Louvre); Infant Œdipus presented to Pericles, Louvre.—Larousse; Lejeune, Guide de l'Amateur, i. 396.

MEYNIER, JULES JOSEPH, born in Paris, Nov. 4, 1826. History and genre painter, pupil of Delaroche, Gleyre, and Bridoux. His pictures of religious subjects are superficial in feeling. Medals: 1867; 2d class, 1877. Works: First Christians (1867); The Miller with his Son and Donkey (La Fontaine's fable); Staircase of Tersato (1868); The Visitation, Church of Bourget; Return from Golgotha; Victorious Love; Poussin's Walk; The Bath; You shall be Queen; Chrysantes and Daria (1877); Venus punishing Love (1878); Virgin's Presentiment, Awakening (1879); Angelic Salutation, Christ followed by the Crowd (1880); Acis and Galatea (1881); Charming Woman, Woman playing a Flute (1882); Truth (1884); Mary in Prayer, Women at the Bath (1885); Judgment of Paris (1886).—Bellier, ii. 83.

MEYTENS (Mytens), MARTIN VON, born in Stockholm, Aug. 24, 1696 (1695, ?), died in Vienna, March 23, 1770. German school; portrait painter, son and pupil of Peter Martin Mytens, who was a grandson of Daniel Mytens, the elder, and called to Stockholm as court-painter to the King of Sweden. Martin went early to Holland, and in 1714, in the suite of George I., to England, thence in 1717 to Paris, where he painted Louis XV. and Peter the Great; visited the courts of Germany, spent some years in Italy, especially in Turin, Florence, and Rome (from 1724), and in 1726 went to Vienna, where in 1732 he became court-painter, and in 1759 director of the Academy. Works: Portraits of Emperor Charles VI. and Empress Maria Theresa, Francis I., Stephen, King Frederic I., Duke Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Joseph II.; Five family groups,