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 *ington; King Lear, One Moment Alone (1875); Death of a Gitano (1876); Mater Dolorosa (1877); Give us Barabbas (1878); Mother and Child, J. J. Astor, New York; Galileo before Cardinal Barberini, C. S. Smith, New York; Holy Family, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; do., and May Dance, D. W. Powers, Rochester, N. Y.; Pride of Desert, W. Mason, Taunton, Mass.; Purity, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Bellier, ii. 141; Larousse; Jarves, Art Thoughts.

MÜLLER, FRANZ, born in Düsseldorf in 1843. History painter, son of Andreas (of Cassel), pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Bendemann and Deger, and in 1871-72 of Antwerp Academy. Works: St. John the Baptist; Christ; Madonna at Kevelaer; Holy Family; Pietà (several); Frescos in the Kunstsaal of Castle Sigmaringen, with his father.—Müller, 383.

MÜLLER, FRIEDRICH, called Maler Müller, also Teufelsmüller, born at Kreuznach, Jan. 13, 1749, died in Rome, April 23, 1825. History and genre painter, studied in Mannheim; went in 1778 to Rome, where he took Michelangelo for his model, and chose subjects in which devils played the principal part, hence his nickname. He was a severe, sometimes unjust art-critic. Works: Cupid with Doves in a Rose Bower; Ulysses summoning the Spirit of Ajax.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxii. 530; Gœthe, Winckelmann, ii. 128; Hagen, i. 162; Meusel, ii. 69; N. Necrol. d. D. (1835), No. 147.

MÜLLER, GUSTAV (ADOLF), born at Hildburghausen, Aug. 9, 1828. Portrait and genre painter, twin brother of the sculptor Johannes Eduard Müller, pupil of Munich and Antwerp Academies, at the latter under Wappers; in 1850 studied in Paris under Gleyre, then painted portraits in Coburg, Gotha, and Vienna; called in 1857 to Portugal, where he became court-*painter. After painting in London in 1857-59, he settled with his brother in Rome, and is member of and professor at the Accademia di S. Luca. Works: Savoyard Boy Asleep, Gotha Museum; Peasant Girl with Grapes; Boy with Fruit; Woman carrying Child to Foundling Asylum; Reminiscence of Villa Borghese; Hunting Life in the Campagna; Egyptian Woman; Girl of Corleone; Happy Nurse; Girl of Procida; Jupiter as Faun surprising Antiope, Mrs. J. Harrison, Philadelphia.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 656; Müller, 383; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 106; viii. 125.

MÜLLER, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at Geratsried, Bavaria, in 1809, died in Munich, June 27, 1869. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Conrad Eberhard and Heinrich Hess, whom he assisted with the frescos in All Saints Chapel, and in decorating the Basilica, having meanwhile (1837) painted with Führich the 14 stations on the Laurentiusberg near Prague. Works: Jeremiah on Ruins of Jerusalem; Madonna; Cycle in fresco at Kösching near Ingolstadt (1855-56).—Allgem d. Biog., xxii. 631; Allgem. Zeitg. (1869); Europa (1869), 441.

MÜLLER, JOHANN JAKOB, born at Riga in 1765, died at Stuttgart in 1831. Landscape painter, pupil in Dresden of Klengel; then studied in Rome after Claude Lorrain; visited Italy a second time in 1817 and settled in Stuttgart, where he was made court-painter. Works: Several Views of Pompeii; View from Monte Cavo near Rome; View from Mons Albanus in Ancient Latium; Reichenbach; View near Salerno, Stuttgart Museum.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1834), 266; (1839), 321.

MÜLLER, KARL, born in Darmstadt in 1818. History painter, younger son of and first instructed by Franz Hubert Müller, then pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn and Schadow; went to Italy in 1839, and after his return in 1843 painted some of the frescos in the Apollinaris Church at Remagen. Professor at Düsseldorf Academy. Works: Visitation (1837); Tobias and the Angel (1838); Caritas, Marriage of the Virgin (1839); Maria Regina; Holy Family; Annunciation (1852); replica, enlarged, Düsseldorf Gallery; Madonna; Disciples at Emmaus; Last Supper; Vision of St. Hedwig;