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 (1860), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Night Fishing in Norway; Norwegian Waterfall (1879); Wood Lake in Norway (1882).—Dioskuren, (1865); Illustr. Zeitg. (1882), i. 387; Müller, 385.

MÜLLER, PIETRO. See Molyn, Pieter.

MÜLLER, RUDOLF, born in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Dec. 28, 1816. History and portrait painter, pupil of Prague Academy under Kadlik, and in 1834-38 of Vienna Academy; settled in Prague, where he has since painted mostly religious subjects. Works: St. John; Resurrection, Salzburg Cathedral; St. Francis of Assisi; Pietà (1844), First Communion of St. Wenceslaus; Return of St. Adalbert to Bohemia; St. Martin; St. Ann with Simon and Judas Thaddeus; St. Joseph; St. Nepomuk at Prayer; Taking of Christ; St. Elizabeth after the Miracle of the Rose; Building of the Famine Wall under Charles IV.; Laying of Corner-Stone to Karolinenthaler Church in Prague; Portrait of Cardinal Prince Schwarzenberg; of Emperor Francis Joseph, Prague University; do., Cracow University.—Dioskuren (1867); Müller, 385; Wurzbach, xix. 401.

MÜLLER, VICTOR, born in Frankfort, March 29, 1829, died in Munich, Dec. 21, 1871. History painter, pupil of Städel Institute from 1849; studied at Antwerp Academy, then in Paris under Couture; returned to Frankfort in 1858, and moved to Munich in 1864. Works: Man lulled to Sleep in Lap of Night; Adonis; Wood-Nymph (1863); Muses and Graces; Diana and Endymion; Hero and Leander: Scenes from Life of Hartmuth von Kronenberg; Hamlet in the Graveyard (1869); Ophelia at the Brook; Faust with Wagner in the Twilight; Romeo and Juliet.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxii., 679; Dioskuren (1872), 11; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 180; Reber, iii. 229; Zeitschr. f. b. K., v. 122; vi. 146; ix. (Mittheilungen, ii. 44).

MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES, born at Bristol, June 28, 1812, died there, Sept. 8, 1845. Son of a German clergyman, curator of Bristol Museum; student of J. B. Pyne, landscape painter. Exhibited at Royal Academy in 1833, Destruction of Old London Bridge. In 1833-34 he visited Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, and in 1838 Greece and Egypt; in 1843 he accompanied Sir Charles Fellowes to Lycia, and brought back many sketches and pictures of Oriental scenery and manners. Two of his landscapes are in the National Gallery, London.—Solly, Memoir (London, 1875); Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Redgrave; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Art Journal (1850), 344; (1864), 293; Portfolio (1875), 164, 185.

MULREADY, WILLIAM, born at Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, April 30, 1786, died in London, July 7, 1863. Son of a leather-*breeches-maker, who removed to London, where, when fifteen years old, William entered the schools of the Royal Academy; exhibited first in 1803, became an A.R.A. in 1815, and R.A. in 1816. He began by painting landscapes, but soon turned his attention to subject-*painting, and by careful study of the Dutch masters won a high position in that branch of art. His whole life was devoted to his profession; he drew in the Life-School of the Academy up to two evenings before his death, and left many exquisite chalk studies and designs. Some of his best pictures were painted from his illustrations on wood for the Vicar of Wakefield (1840). Works: Cottage, St. Peter's Well (1806); View in St. Alban's (1807); Old Houses in Lambeth, The Battle (1808); Roadside Inn (1811); Punch (1813); Idle Boys (1815); Lending a Bite (1819), Earl Gray; Wolf and Lamb (1820), Royal Collection; Careless Messenger (1821); Convalescent (1822); Widow (1824), Col. Holdsworth, sold in 1881 for £1,155; Origin of a Painter (1826); The Cousin (1827), Peel Collection; Eng