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 Fields; Gathering the Flock; Peasant Girl; Misty Morning—Rome; Children at Fountain; In the Fields, Devotees at Shrine of S. Pantaleone (1883); The Vow, National Gallery, Rome.—Müller, 370; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiv. 54.

MICHIELI, ANDREA. See Andrea Michieli.

MICHOLD, EDMUND, born in Cologne in 1818. Genre painter, studied in Cologne and Munich, afterwards lived alternately in Düsseldorf and Cologne. Works: Tyrolese Family; Musical Shoemaker; Cobbler training Bird; Uncautious Tailor.

MICON, painter and brass caster of Athens, son of Phanochus and fellow-worker at Athens of Polygnotus, 5th century Said by Pliny (xxxiii. 56 [160]; xxxv. 25 [42]) to have been the first, with Polygnotus, to use yellow ochre (sil) and black made from burned grape-husks. Noted for his skill in painting horses. Among his works were the Battle of Theseus, and the Athenians with the Amazons, in the Pœcile at Athens; the same subject, on one of the walls of the Theseum, and the Fight between the Centaurs and the Lapiths, on another wall of the same building; and the Argonautic Expedition, in the Temple of the Dioscuri.—Paus, i. 18, 1; Brunn, i. 274.

MICON, painter, called the younger by Pliny (xxxv. 35 [147]). He was the father of Timarete.—Brunn, ii. 300.

MIEL (Meel), JAN, called Bieke, Jamieli, and Giovanni delle Vite, born near Antwerp or in Brussels (?) in 1599, died in Turin in 1664. Flemish school; history, genre, and landscape painter, said to be a pupil of Geeraard Zegers; afterwards studied under Andrea Sacchi at Rome, then gave up historical style and painted genre after the manner of Pieter van Laar; called to Turin in 1658, as painter to the Duke of Savoy; member of the Academy of S. Luca in 1648. His hunting-pieces are much esteemed; figures true to nature and drawn with much spirit. Works: Mendicant, Neapolitan Barber, Military Halt, Travellers Dining, and others, Louvre; Travellers before Italian Inn, Rotterdam Museum; Herdsman with Goats, do. with Cattle, Dresden Gallery; See Harbour, Vienna Museum; Skirmish near a Castle, Musée Rath, Geneva; Prodigal Son tending Swine, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Venus with Bacchus and Ceres (1645), Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Mountebank, Peasants Dancing, Halt of Hunting Party, four others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Feeding of the Poor in Capuchin Monastery, Scene in Courtyard of Italian House, Schleissheim Gallery; Dead Donkey, Stettin Museum; Shepherd Boy and Dog, Czernin Gallery, Vienna; Rustic Scene, Bergamo Gallery; Landscape with Figures and Animals, Peasant Family Resting, Herdsman and Ox, Two Shepherds with Cow and Goats (?), Artist's Portrait, Uffizi, Florence; Incident of Stag-Hunt, The Meet, Interior of Sculptor's Studio, Portrait of Marie de Bourbon-Soissons, Turin Gallery; Huntsmen Resting, Historical Society, New York; Ten pictures in Madrid Museum; Seaport with Figures, National Gallery, Edinburgh.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 712; Immerzeel, ii. 225; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 331; Kramm, iv. 1118; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Fétis, Artistes belges à l'étranger, i. 315; Michiels, x. 296; Rooses (Reber), 408.

MIELICH (Müelich), HANS, born at Munich in 1516, died there in 1573. German school; history, portrait, and miniature painter, perhaps pupil of Sigmund Schnitzer (court-painter in Munich about 1514-36), and influenced by Altdorfer; appears as a master as early as 1546, and afterwards became court-painter to Duke Albrecht V. of Bavaria. Seems to have visited Italy, to judge from an existing copy of Michelangelo's Last Judgment; excelled in min