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 MUÑOZ, SEBASTIAN, born at Navalcarnero in 1654, died in Madrid in 1690. Spanish school; history painter, pupil of Claudio Coello, then in Rome of Carlo Maratti; on his return to Spain in 1684 assisted Coello in painting frescos at Saragossa, then painted in Madrid at the Alcazar, and was appointed court-painter in 1688. While employed in restoring the frescos of Herrera in Church of Atocha, he was killed by falling from the scaffolding. Works: Cupid and Psyche, Portrait of Queen Maria Luisa (1686); Eight Pictures on Life of St. Eloy (1688), S. Salvador, Madrid; St. Augustine conjuring the Locust Plague, Burial of Count de Orgaz, Artist's portrait, Madrid Museum. Fresco: Angelica and Medoro, Alcazar, Madrid.—Stirling, 1041.

MUÑOZ-DEGRAIN, Don ANTONIO; contemporary. Genre painter. Medal, 1st class, Madrid. Works: Othello and Desdemona (1881); Don Quixote and Windmill, Souvenir of Granada, Madrid Museum; Inundation Scene, View in Venice (1883); The Lovers of Teruel (1884).—La Ilustracion (1881), i. 391; ii. 73; (1882), i. 251; (1884), i. 382; ii. 2, 24.

MUNSCH, JOSEPH, born at Linz, Upper Austria; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Philipp Foltz. Works: Publication of Death Warrant of Conradin of Suabia and Frederic of Baden; Rudolf von Hapsburg beside Body of Ottokar of Bohemia; A Chord (Jubilee Exhib., Berlin, 1886).—Wurzbach, xix. 461.

MUNSCH, LEOPOLD, born in Vienna in 1826. Landscape, genre, and interior painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Joh. Nep. Geiger. His landscapes, mostly enriched with castles, ruins, and other architecture, are truthful copies of nature. Works: Wood near Weidlingen; Castle Yard at Taufers, Tyrol; Avenue in Schönbrunn Park; Alpine Village; Schluderns in Tyrol; Room in Schleissheim Castle; Before Serenissimo; Oak Wood (Munich Exhibition, 1883).—Dioskuren, 1867; Müller, 386; Wurzbach, xix. 461.

MÜNSTER, PEACE OF, Gerard Terburg, National Gallery, London; copper, H. 1 ft. 5 in. × 1 ft. 10 in.; signed, dated 1648. Assemblage in the Rathhaus, Münster, May 15, 1648, for ratification of treaty between the Dutch United Provinces and Spain. A clerk is reading the oath of ratification, while Barthold van Gent, for the Provinces, and the Count of Peñaranda, for Spain, hold copies of the paper. One of the most wonderful assemblages of minute portraits ever painted in oil, containing about thirty figures. Passed from painter's family, late in last century, to Van Leyden Gallery; thence to Prince Talleyrand, to Buchanan (1817), to Duc de Berri, and in 1837 to Prince Demidoff, at whose sale (1868) it was bought by Marquis of Hertford for £7,280; presented by Sir Richard Wallace in 1871.—Art Journal (1871), 294; (1872), 28; Cat. Nat. Gal.

MUNSTERHJELM, (MAGNUS) HJALMAR, born at Tunlois, Finland, in 1841. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Oswald Achenbach, and Gude, with whom he moved to Carlsruhe in 1865; has visited Switzerland, the Rhine, Bavaria, and the north of Europe. Works: Finnish Landscape; Crawfishing in the North; View on Frauenchiem Lake; Village Street in Snow; Moonlight Night in Finland; Waterfalls of Wallink.—Müller, 386.

MUNTHE, LUDVIG, born at Aaröen, near Bergen, Norway, March 11, 1841. Landscape painter, self-taught in Düsseldorf, whither he went in 1861; has visited Belgium, Holland, France, Scandinavia, and Italy. He paints chiefly autumn and winter scenes. Gold medal, Berlin, 1872; London, 1876; Paris, 1st class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1878; Order of Leopold, 1875; Member of Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam Academies; Swedish court-painter, 1875. Works: Winter Scene (1869), do. (1878), Autumn Landscape (1882), Christiania Gallery; Winter Landscape (1870), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do. (1871), Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Potato Harvest; Cows in the