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 dated 1725); Uffizi, Florence (2); Historical Society, New York (2).—Immerzeel, ii. 243; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 545; Kramm, iv. 1171; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise.

MOUCHOT, LOUIS, born in Paris, Aug. 25, 1830. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Drölling and Belloc; paints Egyptian subjects with skill and truth to nature. Medals: 1865, 1867, 1868; L. of Honour, 1872. Works: Carpet Bazaar in Cairo (1866), Rennes Museum; Monkey-Dealer in Cairo, Fellah Women (1868); Evening Prayer, Venice (1874); Shop in Cairo (1875); The Shadoof (system of irrigation) in Upper Egypt (1875), Luxembourg Museum; Ducal Palace in Venice, Grand Canal (1876); Dahabieh on the Nile (1877); Grand Canal, Street in Cairo (1878); John Baptist preaching (1879); Venus (1880); View of Venice (1881); Nile near Cairo, Street in Venice (1882); Minieh on the Nile (1883); Fleur de mer (1885); Monkey Tamer, R. L. Cutting, New York; Sortie of the Grand Council, W. Bement, Philadelphia.—Bellier, ii. 134; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 328.

MOULLION, ALFRED, born in Paris in 1832, died there, June 14, 1886. Landscape painter, pupil of Delestre. Medal, 3d class, 1880. Works: The First at the Meeting (1870); Moonrise at Ermenonville (1874); Partridge Family (1875); Village in the Morning, View in Forest of Fontainebleau (1878); Stag Pond, La Gaule-aux-Fées, Brittany (1879); Mower, Apple-Tree in May (1880); Bay in Autumn Morning, Spring Tide (1881); Saint-Malo, Cape in Brittany (1882); Hiding Place, Bridge of Sèvres (1883); Plain of Saint-Suliac, Autumn Evening (1884); Fisherman at Dawn, Forest in Autumn (1885); Bathing, Forest in Autumn (1886).

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY, born at Setauket, L. I., Nov. 26, 1807, died in New York, Nov. 19, 1868. Genre painter, pupil of National Academy. Practised his profession in New York, 1829-68; elected N.A. in 1832. First exhibited picture, Daughter of Jairus. Works: Long Story (1837), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Turning the Grindstone; Farmers' Nooning, J. Sturges, New York; Turn of the Leaf, James Lenox Collection, ib.; Fortune-Teller, Bargaining for a Horse, Portrait of James Rivington, Historical Society, ib.; Raffling for a Goose, Mrs. M. O. Roberts, ib.; Axe to Grind, T. B. Clarke, ib.; Horse Trade, R. L. Stuart, ib.; Power of Music, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Dawn of Day, Portrait of a Lady (1868).—Tuckerman, 420.

MOUTTE, ALPHONSE, born at Marseilles; contemporary. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of Meissonier. Works: All is over!; Souvenir of Poissy (1874), Sunday Evening (1875); Peeling of Oak-Trees in Provence (1876); Unloading of Grain at Marseilles (1877), Marseilles Museum; Maldormé Creek near Marseilles (1878); Catalonian Fishermen (1879); Cast-net (1880); Last Sowings of Spring, Corner of the Prado Region (1881); Fishermen's Breakfast (1882); Pond of Marignane in Provence (1884); Women of Arles, Interior of Fisherman's Hut (1885); In the Sun (1886).—Bellier, ii. 138.

MOYA, PEDRO DE, born in Granada in 1610, died there in 1666. Spanish school; pupil of Juan de Castillo; love of adventure made him a soldier in the army of Flanders, when he was so charmed with the works of Van Dyck that he went to London in 1641 to study under him. Van Dyck died soon after, and Moya returned home and executed meritorious works, the best of which are in Granada. Works: Scenes in Life of Joseph (6), Madrid Museum; Gypsy telling Cavalier his Fortune, Card-Players and Lovers, Old Pinakothek, Munich; A Saint (or female portrait?), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Male portrait, Czernin Gallery, Vienna; Portrait of himself, National Gallery, Pesth.—Stirling, ii. 818; Viardot, 109; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole.