Rockefeller, ib.; Welcome to Papa, J. J. Astor, ib.; Letter, R. G. Dun, ib.; Little Coquette, Leaving Home, Meditation, Prayer, T. R. Butler, ib.; Watching the Baby, Mother and Baby, Mrs. Paran Stevens, ib.; What has Mother brought? Cornelius Vanderbilt, ib.; Toilet, Little Sister, J. W. Drexel, ib.; Girl Knitting, E. D. Morgan Collection, ib.; Inundation, Listener, Little Knitter, R. L. Stuart, ib.; Convalescent, Girl and Bible, C. P. Huntington, ib.; Brother and Sister, Charles Stewart Smith, ib.; Young Mother (1881), Knoedler & Co., ib.; Little Pleader, Evening Prayer, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Reading, D. W. Powers, Rochester; Grandmother's Pet, G. Whitney, Philadelphia; Threading her Needle, Blind Man's Buff, Mrs. T. A. Scott, ib.; Grateful Convalescent, W. B. Bement, ib.; Last Look at Home, Fairman Rogers, ib.; and many others.—D. Kunstbl. (1854), 165; (1855), 298, 461; (1856), 403, 430; (1857), 121; (1858), 287; Jordan, 199; Kunst-Chronik, i. 122; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 262; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 174; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvi. 5.
MEYER, JOHANN HENDRIK LOUIS,
born in Amsterdam in 1809, died at Utrecht,
April 3, 1866. Marine painter, pupil of
Westenberg and Pieneman; painted landscapes
in France in 1827-31; lived at Deventer,
Holland, in 1833-39; removed in
1841 to Paris, where after 1842 he exhibited
numerous works. Medals: Paris, 1842,
1844, 1855; Angers, 1842; Boulogne, 1844;
Brussels, 1851; L. of Honour, Order of
Lion, 1847; Order of Leopold, Commander
Order of Oaken Crown, 1855; Member of
St. Petersburg Academy in 1845. Works:
Fishermen on Coast of Normandy, Burning
of Ship India (1842); Napoleon landing at
Fréjus (1844), Versailles Museum; Sea on
English Coast, Fishing Boat in Open Sea
(1851); Fishermen at Sunrise on Flemish
Coast (1858); Newfoundland Dog; Combat
of the Alacrity under Admiral Mackau; Ship-*wrecked
Crew saved by Whalers (1853),
Storm on French Coast (1856), Storm in
the Channel, Museum, Amsterdam; Two
Marines with Vessels, Museum Fodor,
ib.; Agitated Sea, Rotterdam Museum;
Agitated Sea, Leipsic Museum; Scheveningen
in Stormy Weather; Starting out of
Lifeboat; Storm on Isle of Jersey; Christ
laying the Storm, A. Belmont, New York.—Immerzeel,
ii. 224; Kramm, iv. 1110; vii.
109; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860); viii. 91.
MEYER, KLAUS, born at Linden, near
Hanover, Nov. 20, 1856. Genre painter,
pupil of Nuremberg Art School, then of
Munich Academy under Wagner and Löfftz;
successfully imitates the old Dutch masters.
Great gold medal, Munich, 1883; Berlin,
1884. Works: In Quarters; Convent
Scholars; Would-be Politicians; Dutch Interior
in 17th Century (1882); In the
Beguin Convent (1883); Smoking College
(1884); Players at Dice, Smoker (Jubilee
Exhib., Berlin, 1886).—Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 369, 578; xix. 183; Meyer, Conv.
Lex., xxi. 637; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xviii. 265;
xix. 132; xx. 75.
MEYER, OTTO, contemporary. Genre
and landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy,
then studied in Italy, whence he returned
in 1848; lives in Berlin. Works:
Southern Life before a Tavern; Dialogue;
From Shepherd Life; Roman Fruit-Seller.—Cotta's
Kunstbl. (1848), 178; D. Kunstbl.
(1850), 227; (1853), 198; (1856), 214.
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MEYERHEIM, (FRIEDRICH) EDUARD,
born in
Dantzic, Jan. 7,
1808, died in Berlin,
Jan. 18, 1879.
Genre painter,
first instructed by
his father, then
pupil of Berlin
Academy; took
his subjects chiefly
from peasant
life in the Hartz Mountains and Thuringia.
Member of Berlin Academy in 1836, professor
in 1855. Medals: 1848, 1850, 1855;
Bavarian Order of Michael, 1859; Prussian
