Vernet; after his return, about 1833, settled in Cologne; painted especially battles, animals, and equestrian portraits. Works: Scenes from Greek War of Independence; Death of Adolphus of Nassau; Kosciusko taken Prisoner; Napoleon and his Generals; Elector Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg in Battle of Nuremberg (School of Cadets, Berlin); Blücher's Rescue in Battle of Ligny; Lion Hunt; Lions Fighting (1835), Frederic William IV. of Prussia returning from Parade, Cologne Museum; Panorama of French Army under General Hoche crossing the Rhine (1838-41); Diorama of Battle of Kulm; View of Castle Stolzenfels at Sunset (1843; last three together with his brother Nicolas).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 263; Merlo, Nachrichten, 280; Raczynski, i. 238.
MEIXNER, LUDWIG, born in Munich
in 1828. Landscape and marine painter,
pupil of Bernhard Stange; visited Norway
and Sweden in 1848-51; excels in moonlight
scenes. Works: View in English
Park near Munich; Vöhring near Munich;
Moonlight Landscape, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Lake Constance with Cloud Effect;
Landscape at Moonrise; View on the Untersberg;
Coast Scene; Moonlight Night
on Swedish Coast; Venice; The Auer
Kirche near Munich by Moonlight (1884),
New Pinakothek, Munich.—D. Kunstbl.
(1857), 261; Müller, 363.
MELANTHIUS (Melanthus), painter of
the Sicyonian school; pupil of Pamphilus,
about 332 B.C. He was a fellow-student of
Apelles, by whom he was considered superior
to himself in composition. Pliny says
(xxxv. 32-[50]), he was one of the four great
painters (the others being Apelles, Echion,
and Nicomachus) who executed their immortal
works with four colours only, white,
yellow, red, and black. The only one of
his pictures mentioned represented Aristratus
of Sicyon standing beside the chariot of
the Goddess of Victory, which Nealces preserved
from destruction.—Plut. Arat., 13;
Brunn, ii. 142.
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MELBYE, (DANIEL HERMAN) ANTON,
born in Copenhagen, Feb. 13, 1818,
died in Paris, Jan. 10,
1875. Marine painter,
pupil of Copenhagen
Academy under
Eckersberg, and
much influenced by
Rumohr; visited, on
board of Danish men-of-war,
the North, Baltic,
and Mediterranean
seas, obtained a prize in 1843, went to Stockholm
and Hamburg in 1846, and the year
after to Paris, where the Duc de Decazes became
his patron. In 1853 he accompanied
the French embassy to Constantinople, painted
there for the Sultan, and after his return
for Napoleon III.; revisited Copenhagen in
1858, and having worked for a while in
Hamburg returned to Paris. Member of
Copenhagen Academy; L. of Honour, 1854;
Order of Danebrog, 1858. Works: Ships
Cruising; Eddystone Lighthouse (1846),
Copenhagen Gallery; Boat in Danger;
Floating Ice on Coast of Greenland; Morning
after Storm; Roadstead of Copenhagen;
do. of Constantinople; French Men-of-War
on Greek Coast; Naval Battle in Kjöge
Bay (1855), Copenhagen Gallery; Roadstead
with Ships (1850), Corvette (1851),
Solitude of the Sea (1852), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; Agitated Sea after Sunset
(1867), Schwerin Gallery; Moonlight on
Bosphorus.—Art
Journal
(1875),
280; Kunst-Chronik,
x.
330; Sig. Müller, 250; Ny illustrerad Tidning,
1875; Weilbach, 471; Zeitschr. f. b.
K., xiv. 354.
MELBYE, (KNUD FREDERIK) VILHELM
(HANNIBAL), born at Elsinore,
May 14, 1824. Marine painter, brother of
Anton, pupil of Copenhagen Academy.
Works: Pilot Boat in Stormy Weather
(1847), Copenhagen Gallery; Roadstead of
