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MOYAERT (Moeijaert), NICOLAAS (Claes), born about 1600, died after 1659. Dutch school; history, landscape, and portrait painter; settled in Amsterdam in 1624, and joined the guild there in 1630. He began as a follower at Rome of Elzheimer, then became a disciple of Rembrandt. His colouring is powerful, and chiaroscuro excellent. In 1638 employed by the magistrates of Amsterdam, when Maria de' Medici visited the city, to paint allegories connected with episodes in her life. Works: Biblical Scene, Procession of Silenus (1624), Mercury and Herse (1624), Hague Museum; Choosing a Bride, Amsterdam Museum; Regent Piece (1640), City Hall, Amsterdam; Calling of St. Matthew (1659), Brunswick Gallery; Bacchanale, Berlin Museum; Silenus, Dresden Gallery; Flight of Cloelia (1640), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; St. John Preaching, Stockholm Museum.—Bode, Studien, 346, 617; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 392; Kramm, iv. 1172; Nagler, Mon., ii. 138; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 221; De Stuers, 90.

MOYSE, ÉDOUARD, born at Nancy, Nov. 12, 1827. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Drölling. Medal, 2d class, 1882. Works: Akiba-ben-Joseph, Great Sanhedrim of French Jews convoked by Order of Napoleon I. in 1807 (1868); A Circumcision (1869); Jewish Family insulted by Vagrants (1870); Heretics before the Inquisition at Seville in 1481 (1872); The Connoisseurs, Game of Chess (1875); Hearing of Court of Assizes, Monk in Prayer (1876); At Low Mass (1880); Lesson in Talmud (1881); Rabbies, Old Woman's Head (1882); Theological Discussion (1883); A Question of Jurisprudence (1884); Sermon of the Future (1885).—Bellier, ii. 140.

MOZART, ANTON, flourished in Augsburg about 1595-1624. German school; landscape painter in the manner of Jan Brueghel. Works: Four Elements (1606), Kunstkammer, Berlin; Christ feeding Five Thousand (1624), Augsburg Gallery; Conflagration, Schleissheim Gallery.—Nagler, Mon., i. 382.

MOZART, LAST MOMENTS OF, Michael Munkácsy, Paris. The dying composer having written as his last work a requiem to be sung at his own funeral, rehearsed fragments of this composition with his friends on the day before his death, Dec. 5, 1791. Clothed in a yellow dressing-gown, his legs wrapped in a woollen blanket, he is seated in an arm-chair, and, seen in profile, beats the time for the singers with his right hand, while the left is holding a leaf of the score, which seems to glide from his feeble grasp. Behind him stands his wife, and at his right, half shaded, his little son. The group of singers, wholly absorbed in the immortal work, occupies the left side of the picture, while a third group, standing by the piano in the background, is formed by the friends, who observe the master with mournful disquietude, one of them, leaning upon the instrument, looking with marked sympathy at his face. Painted in 1885-86.—Allgem. K. C., x. 263, 374; Kunst-Chronik, xxi. 443.

MOZIN, CHARLES LOUIS, born in Paris in 1806, died at Trouville, Nov. 7, 1862. Marine and genre painter, pupil of Xavier Leprince. Medals: 2d class, 1831; 1st class, 1837. Works: View of Antwerp, Wreck of Lugger (1833); Fishermen hauling in Nets, Children beside the Somme (1834); Christening a Fishing Smack, Wreck of the Frederic, Drawbridge, The Cooper, Galleries of St. Valéry-sur-Somme (1835); Entrance of Harbour of Fécamp (1836); French Cavalry capturing Dutch Fleet in 1793 (1836), Taking of Isle of Bommel by the French in 1794 (1837), Combat of Aldenhoven (1838), do. of Moucron (1839), Versailles Museum; Shipwreck of the Reliance (1843), Amiens Museum; View on