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 MILTON, portrait, Cornelis Janson van Ceulen, Passmore Edwards, M.P., London. Milton at the age of ten years; full face, figure seen to waist, life-size. Long in possession of T. Hollis, who purchased it in 1760; bought by Mr. Stanhope of the poet's widow for 20 guineas, and is probably the one referred to by Aubrey. Sold in 1884, £346 10s. Engraved by Cipriani; Boydell (1794); appears as frontispiece in Masson's Life of Milton.—London Times, May 12, 1884.

MILTON DICTATING PARADISE LOST, Michael Munkácsy, Lenox Gallery, New York; canvas. Milton seated at left beside a table, around which are grouped his three daughters, one writing, another embroidering, the third standing; all look towards their father, as if intent upon his words. Painted in 1877; medal of honour at Paris Exhibition, 1878; purchased by Robert Lenox Kennedy, of New York. Etched by G. Greux, in Portfolio.—Portfolio (1880), 109; Am. Art Rev. (1881), ii. 17; Amer. Architect (1879), 195.

MIND, GOTTFRIED, born at Berne in 1768, died there, Nov. 7, 1814; or, according to Wurzbach, born at Lipcse, Hungary, in 1768, died at Berne, Nov. 15, 1814. Animal and genre painter, first instructed by one Legel, then pupil of Sigmund Freudenberger, in whose house he thenceforth remained, faithfully assisting the master. Mind's specialty was the representation of cats, in which he had no equal; many of his pictures became widely known through lithographs and engravings, and won him the surname of the Cat Raphael. Among his genre pictures those of children at play were the most successful. Works: Various Animals, Cat with her Young, Landwehrmann of Berne, Two Poodle Dogs, Basle Museum; Groups of Cats (3), Berne Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 765; Wurzbach, xviii. 339.

MINDERHOUT, HENDRIK VAN, born in Rotterdam in 1632, died in Antwerp, July 22, 1696. Flemish school; marine painter. Free of guild at Bruges in 1663, moved to Antwerp in 1672, and forthwith entered the guild there. Painted harbours and rivers with vessels very truthfully, but the numerous figures in his pictures are of inferior merit. Works: Harbour in the Levant (1675), Antwerp Museum; do., Rouen Museum; do., Christiania Gallery; View of Reservoir at Bruges (1653), Bruges Academy; Seaport (1673), Dresden Museum; two River Views with Skippers Feasting, Madrid Museum; Storm at Sea, Turin Gallery.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 483; Kramm, iv. 1134; Van den Branden, 876.

MINERVA or Athena, pictures. See Antiphilus, Cleanthes, Fabullus.

MINERVA REPELLING MARS, Tintoretto, Palazzo Ducale, Venice; canvas. Minerva repels the God of War with her left hand, and with her right protects Peace and Abundance, who are seated together. Engraved by Agos. Carracci.—Bartsch, xviii. 105; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 217.

MINISTER'S GARDEN, Cecil Lawson, Manchester Gallery; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 7 ft. 4 in. A tribute to the memory of Oliver Goldsmith; suggested by "The Deserted Village," though not meant as a portrait of "Sweet Auburn." Composition made in and about the hillside that crowns the village of Sandhurst. The Minister's Garden, an old-fashioned one, with hollyhocks, roses, and marigolds, occupies the foreground on the slope of the hill which fades away into the distance; at left, under a tree, are bee-*hives; in the middle distance, a few figures. Grosvenor Gallery, 1878.—Mag. of Art (1884), 483; Gosse, Cecil Lawson, 20, 25.

MINJON. See Mignon.

MINNIGERODE, LUDWIG, born at Stryi, Galicia, April 12, 1847. Genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Eduard Engerth, settled in Vienna. Medal in Philadelphia, 1876. Works: Tête-à-Tête; Morning Bath; Studying Monk (1874); Sleeping