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 By Ary Scheffer, Duchesse d'Ayen; two pictures, canvas, each H. 5 ft. 5 in. × 2 ft. 8 in. Subject from Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister." 1. Mignon regretting her Country. Painted in 1836; Salon, 1839. Engraved by Aristide Louis. 2. Mignon aspiring to Heaven. Painted in 1839; Salon, 1839. These pictures met with so pronounced a success that Scheffer followed them with a third, illustrating the meeting of Mignon with her father, entitled Mignon and the Old Harper (1844), now belonging to Queen Victoria, but it was not so favourably received. The subject of Mignon has been treated also by Garipuy (Salon, 1859) and Christian Kohler (engraved by Massau, 1865).

MIGNON (Minjon), ABRAHAM, born at Frankfort in June, 1640, died at Wetzlar in 1679. Dutch school; flower, fruit, and still-life painter; taken to Holland in his twentieth year by Jakob Marrel, who placed him with J. Davidsz de Heem, who perfected him in painting flowers and fruits. Works: Flower- and Fruit-pieces, etc., in the Louvre, Paris (6); in Museums of Amsterdam (3), Brussels, The Hague (3), Leyden, Rotterdam (2), Basle, Brunswick (2), Dresden (15), Stockholm, Vienna (2); in Galleries of Aschaffenburg, Carlsruhe (4), Cassel (2), Copenhagen (do., Moltke Collection, ib.), Frankfort, Schleissheim (5), Schwerin (3); Old Pinakothek, Munich (2); Czernin, Schönborn, and Liechtenstein (1660) Galleries, Vienna; Hermitage, St. Petersburg (4); Uffizi, Florence; Turin Gallery (2).—Immerzeel, ii. 229; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 518; Kramm, iv. 1131; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 445; Stuers, 87.

MIGNOT, LOUIS RÉMY, born in South Carolina in 1831, died at Brighton, England, Sept. 22, 1871. Landscape painter, pupil of Schelfhout, at The Hague. Studio in New York, where he was elected N.A. in 1859, until 1861, when he settled in London. Painted mostly tropical scenery. Works: Tropical Scenery, M. O. Roberts' Collection, New York; Lagoon of Guayaquil—South America (1863); Evening in the Tropics (1865); Tintern, Guayaquil River—Ecuador (1867); Autumn, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; Mountain Landscape, Village in South America, Corn Field, R. L. Stuart Collection, New York); Source of the Susquehanna (1868); Sunset off Hastings (1870); Mt. Chimborazo (1871).—Art Journal (1870), 343; (1871), 6.

MILANO, GIOVANNI DA. See Giovanni.

MILKY WAY, Rubens, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 8 ft. Juno, supported upon clouds, gives the breast to the little Hercules; his eagerness causes some drops of milk to fall into the heavens, where they are changed into stars; behind the goddess, her chariot drawn by peacocks.—Larousse, xv. 1148.

By Tintoretto, Cobham Hall, England; canvas, H. 4 ft. 8 in. × 4 ft. 1 in. Juno, nude, supported upon drapery in the heavens and attended by two cupids and two peacocks, gives the breast to Hercules, whom Mercury is attempting to take from her; drops of milk escaping form the stars of the Milky Way. Formerly in Orleans Gallery, whence sold in 1793 for £50.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 496; iii. 20; Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Larousse, xv. 1148.

MILL, THE. See Isaac and Rebecca, Marriage of.

MILLAIS, Sir JOHN EVERETT, Bart., born in Southampton, June 8, 1829. Genre, landscape, and portrait painter; pupil in drawing at Mr. Sass's Academy, and won in 1838 a silver medal of the Society of Arts with a drawing from the antique; became in 1840 a student in the Royal Academy,