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MELCHIOK Alicante ; View of Copenhagen Harbour. Sig. Mailer, 255 ; Weilbacli, 474. MELCHIOR, WILHELM, born at Nymphenburg in 1813, died in Munich, Sept. 9, 1860. Animal painter, son of Georg Wilhehn (landscape and portrait painter, 1780-182G), pupil of Munich Academy ; fan- cied especially scenes after a chase. Works : Booty watched by Dogs, Fox caught by Dogs (1849), New Pinakothek, Munich ; Be- fore the Badger's Dwelling ; Cat pinched by Crawfish. His brother Josef (born in 1810) was an esteemed painter of horses. Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 291 ; Cotta's Kuustbl. (1848), 234 ; Vine. Miiller, Handb., 161. MELDOLLA, ANDREA. See Hchiaowi,; Andrea. MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, Jiubenx, Munich Gallery ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 1 in. x 9 ft. 4 in. Meleager presenting the head of the Calydonian boar to Atalanta, who is seated in a landscape at foot of a tree ; be- tween them stands Cupid ; several dogs and implements of the chase, painted by Snyders, near the group. Landscape prob- ably by Wildens. Taken to Paris in 1800 ; returned in 1815. Similar picture, engraved by Bartsch, Dresden Gallery ; another, en- graved by Bloemart, Blenheim sale (18S6), Cavendish Beutinck, 520 ; a third iu Ma- drid Museum. Smith, ii. 84, 247 ; ix. 277. By Rubens, Vienna Museum ; canvas, H. 10 ft. 4 in. x 13 ft. Attacking the Calydo- nian boar, which is at bay beside a fallen tree ; several dogs are wounded, and a man lies dead at the feet of the beast ; horsemen, with javelins, are galloping up to the aid of Meleager and Atalanta, who has just wound- ed the boar with an arrow. Animals by Snyders ; landscape by Wildens. Etched by Premier. Similar subject, with changes, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; another, en- graved by Bolswert, Lady Stuart : a third in Madrid Museum. Smith, ii. 88, 157, 275. MELEM, HANS, born at Mehlem, near Bonn, in 1493. German school ; flourished in Cologne as a contemporary, perhaps scholar, of the Master of the Death of the Virgin. His only certain work is a signed portrait of himself (1530), in the Munich Gallery. A triptych there, with Crucifixion and Saints, attributed to Melem, is by one of his pupils. He was inferior in drawing, execution, and colouring. Fc'irster, ii. 183 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 228 ; Merlo, Nachrich- ten, 283 ; W. & W., ii. 497. MELIDA, Don ENRIQUE, contempo- rary. Genre painter, pupil in Paris of MeissonicT ; paints ingenious genre scenes, eminently individualized, often humorous. Medal, 3d class, 1886. Works: Mass in Spain (1872), Luxembourg Museum ; Round of the Santo Oticio ; Antechamber of Prince de la Paz ; Monkey-Story ; Falling Flat ; After the Procession ; First Walk ; Bull- Fight Lesson (1879); Illusions to the Winds (1880); A Study, Disturbed Festival (1883); Hcrrar, o quitar el banco, Mardi-Gras before Theatre of Marcellus at Rome (1884) ; A Maja (1885) ; Carmen, Under the Elm-tree (1886) ; Consultation (Jubilee Exhib., Ber- lin, 1886). La Ilustracion (1879), i. 283 ; (1881), i. 138 ; ii. 375 ; (1883), i. 275 ; (1884), i. 341. MKLIN, JOSEPH, born in Paris, Feb. 14, 1814. History and animal painter, pu- pil of Paul Delaroche and David d'Angers. Medals : 3d class, 1843, 1855 ; 2d class, 1 1845, 1858. Works : St. James pardoning his Accuser (1843) ; Christ healing Blind Man (1845); Battle of Ravenna, English Dogs (1847); Asleep (1848); Dogs and Bull- Dogs, Boar- Hunting (1850) ; Deer's Cry, j Dog Barking, Dogs in Leash (1855) ; Un- coupled, Relays, Pointer (1857) ; Starting Again, Newfoundland Dog (1861) ; Hunts- man leading Dogs against a Boar, English Pointer (1863); Deer-Hunting (1864); Eng- lish Dogs, Tei-riers (1865) ; Vendi'ean Dogs (1866) ; Bourbon Oxen (1867) ; Terriers Fighting, Heads of Vendeeau Dogs (1868) ; English and Vendeean Dogs (1869); Nymph attaching a Dog to its Leash (1873); Deer's Cry (1874) ; At Fault (1879) ; Dogs' Heads, A Virgin (1880); Hallooing on Foot (1882); Lost Dog Barking, Two Scents (1883); Fly- 839