Magdalen, Cupid, thirteen portraits, Dresden Gallery; Latona with Diana and Apollo, Bamberg Gallery; Holy Family, Portrait of Ismael Mengs, Berlin Museum; do. of himself, Darmstadt Museum; Adoration of the Shepherds, Carlsruhe Gallery; Capuchin Friar, Portrait of himself, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do., Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; do., and Capuchin Monk, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Girls with Cupids (2), Leipsic Museum; Artemisia at the Sculptor's, Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Annunciation, Coming of the Holy Ghost, Apollo on Parnassus crowning a Poet, St. John the Baptist, Perseus and Andromeda, Judgment of Paris, Portrait of himself, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portrait, Brussels Museum; Parnassus, fresco, Villa Albani, Rome; Apotheosis of Trajan, Temple of Fame (frescos on ceiling of dining-hall), Royal Palace, Madrid.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 349; Azara, Vita di A. R. Mengs (Rome, 1787); Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1822), 342; Dohme, 1ii.; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), vii. 217; Goethe, Winckelmann, ii. 105; Illustr. Zeit. (1879), ii. 27; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 556; Pecht, iii. 1; Reber, i. 71; Wurzbach, xvii. 347; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiv. 33, 72; Bianconi, Elogio storico del Cavaliere R. Mengs; Guibal, Eloge historique de Mengs; Ratti, Epilogo della Vita.
MENGS, ISMAEL, born at Copenhagen
in 1690, died at Dresden in 1764. Miniature
painter, pupil of Benoît Caffre, then at
Lübeck of Johann Harper (of Stockholm,
1688-1746) and of Paul Heinecke; usually
painted portraits on enamel, of larger size
than was then customary, but executed a
few historical subjects. He became court-painter
at Dresden, whence he twice accompanied
his son Anton Raphael to Rome in
the capacity of a severe mentor. He educated
his children with so barbarous a discipline
as to cause his eldest son to run away.
His two daughters, Julia and Theresia Concordia,
were also excellent miniature painters.
Works: Artist's portrait (in oil, 1741),
St. Magdalen, Annunciation (enamels), Dresden
Museum; Portrait of a Merchant (in
oil), Leipsic Museum.—Nagler, ix. 122.
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Las Meninas, Velasquez, Madrid Museum.
MENINAS, LAS (Maids of Honour), Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 10 ft. 6 in. × 9 ft. Velasquez, in his studio, stands on left before an easel, painting portraits of Philip IV. and Queen Mariana, which are seen reflected in a mirror; the Infanta Margarita Maria, a child, is listening to Doña Isabel de Velasco, and is receiving a glass of water from Doña Maria Agustina Sarmiento; on right, two dwarfs play with a dog; Doña Marcella de Ulloa converses with a "guarda damas;" in background, José Nieto enters by a flight of steps. Painted in 1656; valued in 1700 at 10,000 doubloons; injured in fire of 1734, restored by Juan de Miranda. Engraved by P. Audouin; etched by F. Goya; B. Maura; lithographed by C. Nanteuil; J. Martinez; E. C. Cos. The portrait of Velasquez, the most authentic one, etched by St. Raymond in Curtis. Original sketch for picture, with variations, belongs to Walter Ralph Bankes, Kingston Lacy, Dorset, England.—Palomino, liii. 342; Curtis, 13; Madrazo, 603; Réveil, xiv. 971.
