MENEZES, Dom LUIS DE MIRANDA-PEREIRA, Visconde de, born at Oporto in 1820. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil in Rome of Overbeck and Ferd. Cavalleri; attained to great reputation, especially in his native country. Member of Lisbon Academy. Medal in Oporto in 1865. Chamberlain, president of bank of credit, attaché of Portuguese embassy in Rome, knight and commander of several orders. Works: Old Village Musician; Praying Monk; Christ at Emmaus; Old Beggar; Death of Marco Bozzaris; Chestnut Seller; Calabrese Shepherd, Lisbon Academy; Blind Soldier; Young Shepherdess from the Abruzzi; St. Peter of Alcantara; St. Peter the Apostle; Halt before Tavern; Salvator Rosa among the Robbers.—Müller, 364.
MENGELBERG, EGIDIUS, born in Cologne,
April 8, 1770, died there, October
26, 1849. Portrait painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy; copied the most famous
pictures of the Düsseldorf Gallery and painted
portraits in Cologne and Coblentz in 1790-1800;
lived at Elberfeld in 1800-6, and
settled in Cologne in 1821. Works: Portraits
of Kleber, Bernadotte, Archbishop
Ferdinand August; Portrait of Wallraf, Cologne
Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 347;
Merlo, 285.
MENGELBERG, OTTO, born at Düsseldorf
in 1817. History and portrait painter,
son of Egidius, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy
under Karl Sohn and Schadow; visited
Munich in 1842, then painted portraits in
Cologne until 1847, when he visited Paris,
and settled in Düsseldorf in 1848. Works:
Death of Moses (1836), Judith (1837), Archangel
Michael (1838), Apostle Church, Cologne;
Loreley (1839), Emperor Henry IV.
(1840), Römer, Frankfort; Ecce Homo
(1847); Prodigal Son (1848); Pray First!
(1860); Resurrection and Four Evangelists
(1862); Disciples at Emmaus (1866); Walk
of Jesus to Jerusalem (1876); Peter's Penitence;
Melanchthon; Christ at Gethsemane.—Merlo,
185; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 582;
Müller, 364; W. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 40.
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MENGS, ANTON RAPHAEL, born at
Aussig, Bohemia, May 12, 1728, died in
Rome, June 29,
1779. German
school; history
and portrait
painter, son
and pupil of
Ismael Mengs,
a distinguished
miniature and
enamel painter,
who early
caused him to
study the great masters in Dresden and
afterwards in Rome, where the King of Poland,
Augustus III., permitted him to continue
his studies in 1741-44, and again in
1746-49; he was made court-painter at the
age of twenty-three, and removed to Rome
in 1751, stopping at Venice for five months.
He was an eclectic who, living at a time of
extreme degradation in art, excited great
admiration by his skill in composition and
his knowledge of technical processes, but,
as he had little originality or warmth of
feeling, his works have not stood the test
of time. Cardinal Albani and Pope Clement
XIV. employed him to paint for them
at Rome, and Charles III. of Spain called
him to Madrid in 1761, where as court-painter
he received a high salary. His
writings on painting and painters contain
many refined observations and valuable notices
of remarkable pictures. Works: Adoration
of the Shepherds, Magdalen, St. Peter,
sixteen portraits, Madrid Museum; Clement
XIII., Brera Gallery, Milan; do., Bologna
Gallery; Portrait of himself, Uffizi,
Florence; Christ, Stuttgart Museum; St.
Joseph incited to Flight by Angel, Madonna,
Annunciation, St. Peter Enthroned, two
portraits, Museum, Vienna; Cleopatra and
Augustus, St. Erasmus, Czernin Gallery, ib.;
Nativity, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; do., and
St. Christopher carrying the Infant Christ,
Head of Christ, do. of Magdalen, Harrach
Gallery, ib.; Angel appearing to Joseph,
