The Reading (1868); Louis XIV. at Marly, Portrait of Anson Burlingame (1869); Lady Jane Grey going to Execution, Toilet, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia; Arviragus bearing the Body of Imogen—Scene from Cymbeline (1870); Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre (1873), New York Museum; Souvenir de la Commune, Fin de la Lecture (1874); Dispute, R. L. Stuart Collection, New York; Alsatian Woman, May and December (1876); Antonia (1877); Teresina (1878); Study of a Girl's Head (1882); Pursued, Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre (1884).—Tuckerman, 501.
MAYER, ANTON, born in Vienna in
1843. History painter, son of, and first instructed
by, the engraver, Christian Mayer,
then pupil of Vienna Academy under Rahl
and Führich. Works: Prometheus (1867);
Cycle from Hermann and Dorothea, Four
Temperaments, Four Seasons, Six Muses,
H. Reichel, Vienna; Judgment of Brutus;
Annunciation; Destruction of the Temple
in Jerusalem, Baron Rothschild, Vienna.—Müller,
359; Wurzbach, xviii. 82.
MAYER, CONSTANT, born at Besançon,
France, Oct. 4, 1832. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of the École des Beaux Arts,
and of Léon Cogniet in Paris. Settled in
1857 in New York, where he still resides.
L. of Honour, 1869. Works: Consolation
(1864); Love's Melancholy; Maud Muller
(1867); Episode in Campaign of 1863
(1869); Street Melodies (George King, New
York); Oracle of the Field (M. de Lizardi,
New Orleans); Song of the Shirt (1875);
Song of the Twilight (1879); In the Woods
(1880); Vagabonds (1881); Good News
(1882); Lord's Day, Lawn Tennis (1883);
Mandolin Player (1884); First Grief (1885).
Portraits: General Grant; General Sherman;
Mme. de Lizardi, Lady of Honour to
the ex-Empress Charlotte, and others.
MAYER, ÉTIENNE FRANÇOIS AUGUSTE,
born at Brest (Finistère), July 3,
1805. Marine, genre, and portrait painter.
Medals: 3d class, 1836; L. of Honour,
1839; Officer, 1867. Works: Harbour of
Brest in 1698 (1835); Battle of the Bucentaur,
Battle of the Pluto (1836); Corvette
Recherche in the Ice, Egyptian Frigate
(1837); Burning of the Devonshire by Duguay-Trouin
(1838); North Cape, Norwegian
Views (1839); Breton Cemetery (1841);
Capture of Episcopia (1841), Versailles Museum;
French Fleet forcing Entrance into
the Tajo in 1831 (1841), Dijon Museum;
View of Chesmé—Asia Minor (1844), Bordeaux
Museum; Wreck of the Algesiras;
Exchange in Copenhagen; Harbour of Conquet;
Man Overboard, Evening of a Battle
(1852); Burning of Hamburg Exchange in
1842 (1857); Frigate Herminie rounding
Cape Horn, Bay of Trépassés, Île de Groix
(1861); Fishing for Sea-Wrack; Lighthouse
of Peninsula of Kermorvan (1863); Donjon
of Castle of Brest, Embarking on School-*Ship
Borda (1864); Bay of Pen-Hir, Rescue
on the Breton Coast (1865); Old Harbour
of Porstein (1869).—Bellier, ii. 61.
MAYER, FRANK B., born in Baltimore,
Md., in 1827. Portrait and genre painter,
pupil of Alfred Miller in Baltimore, and of
Gleyre and Brion in Paris. Travelled and
sketched in Europe and the United States,
and in 1851 made some valuable studies
among the Dacotah Indians of Minnesota.
Painted in Paris in 1864-69. Studio in Annapolis.
Works: Indian Thanksgiving;
Attic Philosopher; Marine; Waiting Orders
(J. W. McCoy, Baltimore); Maryland
in 1750 (Peabody Inst., ib.); Nineteenth
Century (Parke Godwin, New York); King's
Jester; Cavalier; Tailor in 1500 (W. H.
Herriman, Rome); Continentals (1876), G.
B. Coale, Baltimore; Trappist (1880).
MAYER, FRIEDRICH, born in Munich,
May 5, 1825, died there, Dec. 26, 1875.
Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy.
Works: The Old Woldergarten in
Munich (1861), St. Nicholas Hospital, ib.
(1862), Castle at Neuberghausen (1863),
New Pinakothek, Munich; Morning in Upper
Inn Valley; Faltschauer Falls in South
Tyrol (1868); View in Etsch Valley; Winter
in Tyrol; Moonrise on Chiem Lake
