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MOREELSE killed by his Daughters, Polyxena on the Tomb of Achilles (1878); Ecstatic of 18th Century, Blanche of Castile (1879) ; Death of La Tour d'Auvergne (1880); Sacrifice of Family to Country (1881): The Family, An Egyptologist (1882) ; Carnot at Battle of Wattignies (1883) ; La Vision (1884) ; Stig- matic of the Middle Ages (1885) ; Death of Pichegru, Morphine (1886). MOREELSE, PAULUS, born at Utrecht in 1571, died there in 1G38. Dutch school ; portrait painter ; pupil in Delft of Mierevelt, finished his studies in Rome ; master of Utrecht guild in 1596. His style is note- worthy, as he was one of the forerunners of Rembrandt. He was member of the Coun- cil and City Treasurer. Painted a few his- torical pictures, but principally portraits. Works : Princess of Hanau (1617) ; Count- ess Ernestine of Nassau, Artist's Portrait, Hague Museum ; Frederick of Bohemia, Mary of Utrecht (1615) ; Shepherdess (1630), Admiral Swartenhout (1627), Two Female portraits, Amsterdam Museum ; Vertumnus and Pomona, Rotterdam Muse- um ; Man holding an Apple (1638, probably last work), Brussels Museum ; Portrait of a Lady (1628), Berlin Museum ; do., Copen- hagen Gallery ; Madonna (1631), Flute- player, Aschaffenburg Gallery ; Male por- trait (1630), Carlsruhe Gallery ; do., Dres- den Museum ; do. (2, 1596, 1598), Female do. (2, one dated 1632), Cologne Museum ; Young Woman with her Child, do. with Shell and Fishing Rod, Hermitage, St. Pe- tersburg ; Shepherdess (1624), Schleissheim Gallery ; Portrait of a Lady (1620), do. of Young Gentleman (1621), Shepherd Boy (1627), Mother and Child, Two others, Schwerin Gallery. Allgem. d. Biog., xxii. 219 ; Immerzeel, ii. 239 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 25(i ; Kramm, iv. 1151 ; Ch. Blanc, Kcolo hollandaise ; De Stuers, 94 ; La Ilustracion (1883), ii. 347. MOREL-FATIO, ANTOINE LfiON, born at Rouen, Jan. 17, 1810, died in Paris, March 4, 1871. Landscape painter ; was the son of wealthy parents. First made himself known by a picture of the Bombardment of Algiers, at which he assisted. Died of grief in the Louvre when the Prussians en- tered it. Medals : 3d class, 1837 ; 2d class, 1843, 1848 ; L. of Honour, 1848 ; Officer, 1866 ; appointed custodian of the Louvre in 1866. Works : Isle of Wight (1833) ; Street of Bab-Azouu in Algeria, Mosque of the Couloughis(1834); Gust of Wind in tho Harbour of Algiers (1835) ; Fight of Alge- siras (1836), Attack on Algiers (1837), Ver- sailles Museum ; Coast of Brittany (1837) ; Entrance to Port of Havre, Entrance to Marseilles (1838); Fight of the Vengeur (1840); San Juan d'Ulloa (1841): Transship- ment of Napoleon at Cherbourg in 1840, Amsterdam in 1700 (1842) ; Slave-ship (1843) ; Bombardment of Tangier (1845) ; Tortoise Island (1849), Arras Museum ; English Iron-clad Fleet at Cherbourg in 1865, Taking of Citadel of Saigon, 1859, Versailles Museum, etc. Bellier, ii. 125 ; Larousse. MORELLI, DOMENICO, born in Naples in 1826. Real name D. Soliero. History and genre painter, pupil of Naples Acad- emy, then in Rome of Camillo Guerra, and, influenced by Filippo Palizzi, studied from nature, and, during a second stay at Rome, under Overbeck ; after suppression of tho national uprising in 1848-49, in which he had taken an active part, he visited the art- schools of London, Paris, Germany, Hol- land, and Belgium ; won first prize at Na- ples in 1855; gold medals, 1861, 1867; Paris, 2d class, 1869. Often combines land- scape with his subjects. Member of several Academies. Works : Saul calmed by David ; Farewell between Conrad and Medora (By- 293