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 killed by his Daughters, Polyxena on the Tomb of Achilles (1878); Ecstatic of 18th Century, Blanche of Castile (1879); Death of La Tour d'Auvergne (1880); Sacrifice of Family to Country (1881); The Family, An Egyptologist (1882); Carnot at Battle of Wattignies (1883); La Vision (1884); Stigmatic of the Middle Ages (1885); Death of Pichegru, Morphine (1886).

MOREELSE, PAULUS, born at Utrecht in 1571, died there in 1638. Dutch school; portrait painter; pupil in Delft of Mierevelt, finished his studies in Rome; master of Utrecht guild in 1596. His style is note-*worthy, as he was one of the forerunners of Rembrandt. He was member of the Council and City Treasurer. Painted a few historical pictures, but principally portraits. Works: Princess of Hanau (1617); Countess Ernestine of Nassau, Artist's Portrait, Hague Museum; Frederick of Bohemia, Mary of Utrecht (1615); Shepherdess (1630), Admiral Swartenhout (1627), Two Female portraits, Amsterdam Museum; Vertumnus and Pomona, Rotterdam Museum; Man holding an Apple (1638, probably last work), Brussels Museum; Portrait of a Lady (1628), Berlin Museum; do., Copenhagen Gallery; Madonna (1631), Flute-*player, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Male portrait (1630), Carlsruhe Gallery; do., Dresden Museum; do. (2, 1596, 1598), Female do. (2, one dated 1632), Cologne Museum; Young Woman with her Child, do. with Shell and Fishing Rod, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Shepherdess (1624), Schleissheim Gallery; Portrait of a Lady (1620), do. of Young Gentleman (1621), Shepherd Boy (1627), Mother and Child, Two others, Schwerin Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxii. 219; Immerzeel, ii. 239; Kugler (Crowe), i. 256; Kramm, iv. 1151; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; De Stuers, 94; La Ilustracion (1883), ii. 347.

MOREL-FATIO, ANTOINE LÉON, born at Rouen, Jan. 17, 1810, died in Paris, March 4, 1871. Landscape painter; was the son of wealthy parents. First made himself known by a picture of the Bombardment of Algiers, at which he assisted. Died of grief in the Louvre when the Prussians entered it. Medals: 3d class, 1837; 2d class, 1843, 1848; L. of Honour, 1848; Officer, 1866; appointed custodian of the Louvre in 1866. Works: Isle of Wight (1833); Street of Bab-Azoun in Algeria, Mosque of the Couloughis (1834); Gust of Wind in the Harbour of Algiers (1835); Fight of Algesiras (1836), Attack on Algiers (1837), Versailles Museum; Coast of Brittany (1837); Entrance to Port of Havre, Entrance to Marseilles (1838); Fight of the Vengeur (1840); San Juan d'Ulloa (1841); Transshipment of Napoleon at Cherbourg in 1840, Amsterdam in 1700 (1842); Slave-ship (1843); Bombardment of Tangier (1845); Tortoise Island (1849), Arras Museum; English Iron-clad Fleet at Cherbourg in 1865, Taking of Citadel of Saïgon, 1859, Versailles Museum, etc.—Bellier, ii. 125; Larousse.

MORELLI, DOMENICO, born in Naples in 1826. Real name D. Soliero. History and genre painter, pupil of Naples Academy, then in Rome of Camillo Guerra, and, influenced by Filippo Palizzi, studied from nature, and, during a second stay at Rome, under Overbeck; after suppression of the national uprising in 1848-49, in which he had taken an active part, he visited the art-*schools of London, Paris, Germany, Holland, and Belgium; won first prize at Naples in 1855; gold medals, 1861, 1867; Paris, 2d class, 1869. Often combines landscape with his subjects. Member of several Academies. Works: Saul calmed by David; Farewell between Conrad and Medora (By