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MARIANA OF THE MOATED GRANGE, Sir John E. Millais, Bart., H. F. Makins, Esq., London; wood, H. 2 ft. × 1 ft. 8 in. Illustration of Tennyson's poem of same title. Mariana, in a dress of deep blue, rises from her embroidery frame, with eyes half-closed, wearied and lorn of love; in front, a window with painted glass, through which the light falls on a piece of unfinished embroidery; to the right, an oratory, with a lamp burning. Royal Academy, 1851.


MARIE ANTOINETTE, Charles Louis Müller, Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York; canvas. Scene—the small room in the Conciergerie, still kept as shown in the picture. Marie Antoinette, dressed in white, standing to listen to her death-warrant, read by Paris—called Fabricius, at whose right stands Herrman, Vice-President of the Convention; next to him is Coffinhall, and then Collier, two commissaries from the Convention; a gendarme is seated on the table. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, ii. 41.


MARIE ANTOINETTE LEAVING THE TRIBUNAL, Paul Delaroche, private gallery. Salon, 1851. Engraved by A. François. Original sketch, Pereire sale, Paris (1872), 6,100 francs.


MARIENHOF, A., born at Gorcum about 1630 (?), died young at Brussels. Dutch school; history and portrait painter, supposed pupil of Teniers, the younger, according to others of Rubens, whom he imitated. Works: Man kneeling before Sovereigns enthroned (1648), Dresden Museum; Artist in his Studio (1648), Male Portrait, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.


MARILHAT, PROSPER, born at Vertaizon, near Thiers (Puy-de-Dôme), March 20, 1811, died there, Sept. 13, 1847. Landscape painter, pupil of Roqueplan. Recommended by his master as the artistic companion of Baron Hügel, he visited the Levant in 1831, and spent a number of years in Cairo, where the climate so ruined his health that he did not long enjoy the fame which awaited him on his return to Paris. Works: Pan playing the Flute for Shepherds and Shepherdesses (1830), Mans Museum; Square of Ezbekieh in Cairo (1834); Tomb of Abou-Mandour (1837); Environs of Beyrut (1841); Souvenirs of the Nile; Syrian Arabs Travelling; Egyptian City in Twilight; Tripoli in Syria (1844); Village in Auvergne (1849), Montpellier Museum; Caravan on the Libanon, View near Tripolis, Leipsic Museum; View of Baalbek; Rosetta; Cairo, Comte Duchatel; Syrian Restaurant; Interior at Rosetta, Lord Seymour; Feeding the Camel, B. Wall, Providence, R. I. He left more than two hundred unfinished pictures.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Revue des Deux Mondes (1848), xxiii. 56; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), v. 290.


MARINO DE' PITTORI, IL. See Cesari, Giuseppe.


MARINUS VAN ROYMERSWALE (M. de Zeeuw), born probably about 1497, died after 1567. Flemish school, flourished in 1521-58. Contemporary of Frans Floris, and lived chiefly in Zeeland. His specialty was the painting of money-changers and shop-keepers in bright and pastose colours, which would seem to indicate the influence of Quinten Massys, who may even have been his master. Works: Two Money-Changers in their Office, National Gallery, London; Customs Officer (1560), Copenhagen Gallery; Money-Changer with his Wife (1541), Dresden Gallery; do. (1538), and Agent at his Desk (1542), Old Pinakothek, Munich; do., and St. Jerome (2, one dated 1521), Madonna, Museum, Madrid; Money-Changer (1835), Academy of S. Fernando, ib.; replica, Schleissheim Gallery; Parable of the Unjust Housekeeper, St. Jerome, Vienna Museum.—Hymans, Marin le Zélandais (Brussels, 1884); Engerth, Belved. Gal., ii. 255; Journal des B. Arts, v. 127; Kugler (Crowe), i. 117; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 205; Cat. Nat. Gal. (1883), 92; Rooses (Reber), 62.