(1873); Alp in Tyrol by Moonlight (1874); View near Wasserburg (1875).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 94; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 243.
MAYER, FRIEDRICH KARL, born at
Tölz, Bavaria, Jan. 3, 1824. Architecture
painter, pupil of Munich Academy under
Schlotthauer and Clemens Zimmermann;
visited Belgium in 1849, and settled as assistant
of Heideloff in Nuremberg, where
he afterwards became professor at the Industrial
Art-School, and in 1875 conservator
of the Royal Galleries. Bavarian Order of
St. Michael and Cross of Merit, Prussian
Order of the Crown, Saxon Order of Ernest.
Works: Shrine of Holy Sacrament in St.
Lawrence's, Nuremberg; Grave of Sebaldus,
ib.; Castle Fröhlich Wiederkunft; View
in Rothenburg; Church in Berchtesgaden;
City Hall in Brunswick; Choir of Augsburg
Cathedral; Nave of same; View in Magdeburg
Cathedral; Bridal Door of Sebaldus
Church and St. Eucharius Chapel, Nuremberg;
View in Halberstadt Cathedral (Munich
Exhibition, 1883).—Müller, 360; Schasler's
K. Zeitg. (1872), No. 11.
MAYER, KARL, born in Vienna, Jan. 18,
1810, died there, June 8, 1876. History
painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under
Gselhofer, studied from nature in Upper
Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, North Italy, and
on the Rhine; lived in Rome in 1842-48,
and became professor at Vienna Academy
in 1851. Order of Francis Joseph, and Papal
Order of Gregory in 1860. Works:
Prometheus rejecting Pandora (1842), Foundation
of Gastein (1837), Vienna Museum:
Convent Yard of S. Giovanni e Paolo in
Rome (1843), New Pinakothek, Munich;
Lancelot du Lac robbed by a Fairy; Italian
Peasants; St. Catharine, Dominicans, Vienna;
Frescos in Altlerchenfeld Church,
Vienna.—Kunst-Chronik, xii. 463; Wurzbach,
xviii. 149.
MAYER, LOUIS, born at Neckarbischofsheim
in 1791, died at Stuttgart in 1843.
Landscape painter, pupil in Stuttgart of
Steinkopf, travelled in Suabia, Switzerland,
Tyrol, Styria, and (1830-32) in Italy. Works:
Olevano with Volsk and Albano Mountains,
View near Ariccia, Stuttgart Museum; Subiaco;
Hohenstaufen; Upper Valley of the
Danube; Neckar Valley above Berg.—Cotta's
Kunstbl. (1843), 370; (1844), 27; Schwäb.
Merkur, Nov. 30, 1843.
MAYER, LUDWIG, born at Kaniow, Galicia,
in 1834. History painter, pupil of
Vienna Academy under Kupelwieser; went
in 1857 to Venice, in 1862 to Dresden, and
thence through Germany and Belgium to
Paris, then spent two years at Rome. After
Kupelwieser's death he became a follower
of Führich and Rahl. Prize of Vienna Academy
for his cartoon, Jerusalem. Works:
St. Martin; Christ in the House of Lazarus;
St. Lawrence (1863); Jerusalem after Death
of Christ (cartoon, 1866); Baptism of Christ,
St. Elizabeth's, Vienna; Judas receiving the
Money; Christ before Pilate; Banquet of
Belshazzar; Visit to Scene of Fire; Music
and Painting, Vienna Museum; Christ
(1880); Shepherd Boy's Dream of Happiness,
Pietà (1883). In fresco: Commerce,
Charity, Science, Education, The Arts, Regimen,
Industry (1885), City Hall, Vienna.—Kunst-Chronik,
xxi. 118; Müller, 361;
Wurzbach, xviii. 160.
MAYNARD, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY,
born in Washington, D. C., March 5, 1843.
Figure painter, pupil of Royal Academy,
Antwerp; painted on the Continent in 1869-74,
and again in 1877-78. Elected an
A.N.A. in 1882; N.A. in 1885; Member of
Society of American Artists. Studio in New
York. Works: A Musician (1879); Bachelor's
Breakfast (1880); Portrait of Frank D.
Millet, Navigators (1881); Portrait of his
Father, Bathers (1882); Ancient Mariner
(1883); Old Court Yard, Aurora, Winter
Reverie, Around the World (1884); Grand-*fatherly
Advice, The Strange Gods (1885).
MAYNO, FRAY JUAN BAUTISTA, born
in 1569, died in Madrid, April 1, 1649.
Spanish school; pupil of El Greco; became
a Dominican monk in convent of S. Pedro
Martyr, Toledo, and acquired considerable
reputation for his altarpieces. Appointed
