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MEYER MEYER, FANNY, born in Bremen, Aug. 28, 1842. Landscape painter, pupil in Bre- men of Christian Grabau, then at Carlsruhc Art School of Gude, with whom she visited the Salzkammergut in 1870 ; travelled through the Bavarian Alps and the Tyrol ; has lived in Bremen since 1873. Works : Chiem Lake ; Pine Forest ; Alpine Pine ; Golliug Falls ; Torrent in High Alps ; Fir Trees in liavine before a Storm (1879). Mailer, 3(58. MEYER, FELIX, born at Winterthur, Switzerland, Feb. G, 1053, died at Castle Wyden, near Husen, in 1713. Landscape painter, pupil at Nuremberg of Franz Er- mels ; afterwards went to Italy, but at Mil- an was compelled by sickness to return ; travelled extensively in Switzerland ; may be considered the head of the Swiss land- scape painters. He decorated two rooms in fresco in the Abbey of St. Florian, Austria. Landscapes by him are in the /iirich Gallery and the Vienna Museum. Fiiessli, Gesch. der besten K., ii. 212 ; Na- gler, ix. 214. MEYER, FERDINAND, born at Wismar, Mecklenburg, Jan. 14, 1833. Genre paint- er, pupil of Gaston Lenthe, and of Dresden Academy, then settled in Munich ; spent three years in America. Works : In Quar- ters, Return Home (1855), Sister as Sick- nurse (1857), Boys kept after School (1862), The Great Prize (1803), Happy Family (1800), Schwerin Gallery. Schlie, 47. MEYER, GEORG FRIEDRICII, born at Mannheim in 1735, died at Ermenonville (Oise) in 1809. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Daniel Hien, then in Paris influenced by Casanova ; returned with Duke Christian IV. to Mannheim, whence he visited the banks of the Rhine and Neck- ar. After his patron's death he returned to Paris, and with J. J. Rousseau lived at the Marquis of Girardin's at Ermenonville. Works : Evening Landscape with Shep- herds, Rocky Ravine with attack of Rob- bers, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Meet for Stag- Hunt, two landscapes, Schleissheim Gal- lery. Nagler, ix. 217. MEYER, HENDRICK DE, flourished at Rotterdam about 1045-1660, died before 1690. Dutch school ; landscape and ma- rine painter. Works : Surrender of Hulst (1045) ; Departure of Charles II. from Scheveniugen, Amsterdam Museum ; Strand of Scheveningen with many Figures, Kunst- halle, Hamburg ; River with many Boats, Amalienstift, Dessau ; Winter Landscape with Skaters (1669), Schloss, ib. Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 174. MEYER, JOHANN GEORG, called Meyer von Bremen, born in Bremen, Oct. 28, 1813. Genre painter, pupil of Diisseldorf Acad- emy under Karl Sohn and Schadow ; painted at first biblical sub- jects, then travelled in the Hessian, Bavarian, and Swiss mountain' districts, studying types for his genre scenes, which have since become so widely known ; repeatedly vis- ited Belgium, and in 1852 moved to Berlin, where he was made professor in 1863. Member of Amsterdam Academy ; Order of Leopold ; Medal in Philadelphia, 1876. Works : Elijah in Lion's Den ; Abraham with Sarah and Hagar at Destruction of Sodom ; Death of Moses ; Christ bewailing Jerusalem ; Anniversary of Hessian Parson (1842); Christmas Eve (1843); Returning Warrior ; Blind Man's Buff (1844) ; Lying- in Room (1845) ; The Flooded (1846) ; Pen- itent Daughter (1852), Bremen Gallery ; Little Mother (1854), National Gallery, Ber- lin ; Artists' Studio ; Praying Child ; Indus- trious Embroideress ; First a Kiss ; Girl on Sea-Shore ; Welcome (1878) ; Beggar Children (1879) ; Little Brother Asleep ; Children (4 pictures, 1874). Works in United States : The Grandmother, New York Museum ; Letter, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York ; Awaking, Morning Prayer, R. Hoe, ib. ; Girl at Fountain, M. Graham, ib. ; Pre- paring for Papa's Birthday, Little Girl, W.