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MEISSXEIi Art Journal (1879), 48 ; Appleton's Journal (18G9), ii. 118 ; Lippincott's Mag., xiv. 75S ; American Architect, v. 54 ; Bruno Meyer, Studien, 96 ; Meyer, Gesch. ; Zeitseh., i. 173 ; ii. 124 ; viii. 104 ; D. Rundschau, xvi. 310 ; Vom Fels zum Meer, vii. 10G. MEISSNER, ERNST ADOLF, born at Dresden, April 12, 1837. Animal and land- scape painter, pupil of Dresden Academy and Kuminer ; spent 1860-151 in Zurich, 1868 in Rome, and settled in Munich in 1870. Many of bis pictures are in America. Works : Pilgrimage on Lake Kocbel ; Mill on the Elbe near Dresden ; Transportation of Cattle in Winter ; Scattered Sheep, Vienna Academy ; Returning Herd in Winter (1875), Dresden Gallery ; Sheep on Flight ; Sheep with Lambs ; On the Alp ; Sunday Afternoon (Jubilee Exhib., Berlin, 1886. Miiller, 362. MEISTER ARNOLD, of Wiirzburg, 14th century. German school ; a master of equal fame in Franconia to that of Meister Wilhelm 011 the Nether Rhine. No work can be attributed to him directly, but the altarpiece of Piihl (about 1400), National Museum, Munich, is of his school. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 272. MEISTER STEPHAN, born at Con- stance, died in Cologne in 1451. German school ; real name Stephau Lochner. Pos- sibly a pupil of Meister Wilhelm, and the most famous master of mediicval art. He settled, and bought a house, in Cologne in 1442 ; the guild of St. Luke chose him to represent their corporation in the senate in 1448, and again in 1451, in which year he died in poverty in a hospital. In him the school of Cologne attained its highest form of originality. Works : Triptych (known as Dombild, after 1426), Cologne Cathedral ; Madonna in der Rosenlaube, Cologne Muse- um ; replica (?), Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Madonna with the Violets (?), Archiepiscopal Museum, Cologne ; Presentation in the Tem- ple (? 1447), Darmstadt Gallery; Three Saints, National Gallery, London. Allgem. d. Biogr., xix, 69 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole alle- mande ; C. & C., Flemish Painters, 350 ; Forster, Gesch., i. 211 ; ii. 152 ; do., Deuk- male, ii. 19 ; iv. 13 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 126 ; Kugler, Kl. Schriften, ii. 294-300, 350, 352, 524 ; Merlo, Meister d. altkOln. Malersch., 108, 200 ; Schnaase, vi. 413 ; W. & W., ii. 87- MEISTER WILHELM, born at Herle, Limburg, died in Cologne in 1378. Ger- man school. The earliest known represent- ative of the ancient school of Cologne, where he painted from 1358 to 1372, and the best German artist of his time ; he is mentioned in the Limburg Chronicle of 1380, as "a famous painter in Cologne, whose equal was not to be found in Christendom, and who painted a man as though he lived." Child- like innocence, tenderness of sentiment, and remarkable purity of expression characterize the faces and graceful, slender figures paint- ed by Master Wilhelm with sweet and ten- der colour. Works : Clara Altar, Cologne Cathedral ; Christ Crucified, Sacristy of St. Severin's, Cologne ; Small Altarpiece, w. Vir- gin w. Bean Blossom, Cologne Museum ; Madonna with Saints, Chapter Room of Hal- berstadt Cathedral ; St. Veronica with the Handkerchief (?), Old Pinakothek, Munich ; do. (?), National Gallery, London. Ch. Blanc, Ecole allemandc ; C. & C., Flemish Painters, 346 ; FOrster, Gesch., i. 204 ; do., Deukmale, v. 7 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 43 ; Kugler, Kl. Schriften, ii. 288-91, 352, 524 ; Kunstblatt (1855), 157 ; Merlo, Meister d. altkoln. Malersch., 31 ; Schnaase, vi. 391 ; W. k W., i. 399. MEISTER, NICOLAS, born at Coblentz. Landscape painter, younger brother and pupil of Simon, with whom he went to Co- logne about 1833 ; painted the landscape in the panorama and dioramas mentioned un- der Simon. Works : Views of Coblentz ; Rolandseck with Siebengebirge, and Castle Rheinstein (1834) ; Ravine with Ruin (1839) ; View of Neuwied (1848). Merlo, Nachrichten, 279. MEISTER, SIMON, born at Cobleutz in 1803, died in Cologne, Feb. 29, 1844. History painter, pupil in Paris of Horace 237