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JV1ULLEE ington ; King Lear, One Moment Alone (1875) ; Death of a Gitano (1S7G) ; Mater Dolorosa (1877) ; Give us Barabbas (1878) ; Mother and Child, J. J. Astor, New York ; Galileo before Cardinal Barberini, C. S. Smith, New York ; Holy Family, J. T. Mar- tin, Brooklyn ; do., and May Dance, D. "V. Powers, Rochester, N. Y. ; Pride of Desert, W. Mason, Tauuton, Mass. ; Purity, W. T. Walters, Baltimore. Bellier, ii. 141 ; La- rousse ; Jarves, Art Thoughts. MULLER, FRANZ, born in Diisseldorf in 1843. History painter, son of Andreas (of Cassel), pupil of Diisseldorf Academy under Bendemann and Deger, and in 1871 -72 of Antwerp Academy. "Vorks : St. John the Baptist ; Christ ; Madonna at Kevelaer ; Holy Family ; Pietft (several) ; Frescos in the Kuustsaal of Castle Sigmaringen, with his father. Miiller, 383. MULLER, FRIEDHICH, called Maler Miiller, also Teufelsmiiller, born at Kreuz- iiach, Jan. 13, 1749, died in Rome, April 23, 1825. History and genre painter, studied in Mannheim ; went in 1778 to Rome, where he took Michelangelo for his model, and chose subjects in which devils played the principal part, hence his nickname. He was a severe, sometimes unjust art-critic. Works : Cupid with Doves in a Rose Bower ; Ulysses summoning the Spirit of Ajax. Allgem. d. Biog., xxii. 530 ; Goathe, Winckel- mann, ii. 128 ; Hagen, i. 102 ; Meusel, ii. 69 ; N. Necrol. d. D. (1835), Xo. 147. MULLER, GUSTAV (ADOLF), born at Hildburghausen, Aug. 9, 1828. Portrait and genre painter, twin brother of the sculptor Johannes Eduard Miiller, pupil of Munich and Antwerp Academies, at the lat- ter under Wappers ; in 1850 studied in Paris under Gleyre, then painted portraits in Coburg, Gotha, and Vienna ; called in 1857 to Portugal, where he became court- painter. After painting in London in 1857 -59, he settled with his brother in Rome, and is member of and professor at the Acca- demia di S. Luca. Works : Savoyard Boy Asleep, Gotha Museum ; Peasant Girl with Grapes ; Boy with Fruit ; Woman carrying Child to Foundling Asylum ; Reminiscence of Villa Borghese ; Hunting Life in the Campagna ; Egyptian Woman ; Girl of Cor- leone ; Happy Nurse ; Girl of Procida ; Ju- piter as Faun surprising Autiope, Mrs. J. Harrison, Philadelphia. Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 056 ; Miiller, 383 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, vi. 106 ; viii. 125. MULLER, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at Geratsried, Bavaria, in 1809, died in Mu- nich, June 27, 1869. History painter, pu- pil of Munich Academy under Conrad Eber- hard and Heinrich Hess, whom he assisted with the frescos in All Saints Chapel, and in decorating the Basilica, having meanwhile , (1837) painted with Fiihrich the 14 stations on the Laureutiusberg near Prague. Works : Jeremiah on Ruins of Jerusalem ; Madonna ; Cycle in fresco at Reselling near Ingolstadt (1855-56). Allgem d. Biog., xxii. 631 ; All- gem. Zoitg. (1809) ; Europa (1869), 441. MULLER, JOHANN JAKOB, born at Riga in 1765, died at Stuttgart in 1831. Landscape painter, pupil in Dresden of Klengel ; then studied in Rome after Claude Lorrain ; visited Italy a second time in 1817 and settled in Stuttgart, where he was made court-painter. Works : Several Views of Pompeii ; View from Monte Cavo near Rome ; View from Mons Albanus in Ancient Latium ; Reichenbach ; View near Salerno, Stuttgart Museum. Cotta's Kunstbl. (1834), 266 ; (1839), 321. MULLER, KARL, born in Darmstadt in 1818. History painter, younger son of and first instructed by Franz Hubert Miiller, then pupil of Diisseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn and Schadow ; went to Italy in 1839, and after his return in 1843 painted some of the frescos in the Apollinaris Church at Remagen. Professor at Diisseldorf Acad- emy. Works : Visitation (1837); Tobias and the Angel (1838) ; Caritas, Marriage of the Virgin (1839); Maria Regina; Holy Family; Annunciation (1852); replica, enlarged, Diis- seldorf Gallery ; Madonna ; Disciples at Em- maus ; Last Supper ; Vision of St. Hedwig ; 311