Mountains (1878), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Village in Thuringia, Stettin Museum; Portrait of Emperor William (1880), Supreme Court, Leipsic; Lion's Head, Poulterer, Still-Life, Lady of the Manor, Monkeys Scat! (1883); Lioness in Love, Sleep and Death (1885); nine paintings representing Nature's Life in the different Seasons, National Gallery, Berlin.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), ii. 107; (1879), i. 10; (1881), ii. 403; (1884), i. 240; Kunst-Chronik, v. 130; xiv. 157; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 63; ii. 23, 121; Müller, 368; Nord und Süd, xvii. 198; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 303; D. Rundschau, xiii. 334; xx. 463; xxi. 149; Zeitschr. f. b. K., v. 123; vi. 109.
MEYERHEIM, WILHELM ALEXANDER,
born in Dantzic in 1814, died in Berlin,
Jan. 13, 1882. Military, genre, and horse
painter, younger brother of Franz Eduard,
with whom he followed the same course of
study. Works: Three scenes from War in
Schleswig in 1848; Winter Amusements.—Cotta's
Kunstbl. (1846), 207; D. Kunstbl.
(1850), 178; (1854), 160; (1855), 383.
MEYIERING, AALBERT, born at Amsterdam
in 1645, died there, July 17, 1714.
Dutch school; landscape painter, son and
pupil of Frederik Meyiering, a mediocre
painter; then spent ten years in France
and Italy, and after his return executed
many orders for the royal castles; with his
friend and travelling companion, Jan Glauber,
he decorated Castle Soestdyk for Queen
Mary of England, and is said to have lived
also in Hamburg. Works: Two Landscapes
with Nymphs, etc., Berlin Museum; do.,
Brunswick Museum; do., Schwerin Gallery;
do., Moltke Collection, Copenhagen.—Hamburg
K Lex., 304; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 493.
MEYNIER, CHARLES, born in Paris in
1769, died there in 1832. History painter,
pupil of Vincent and of the École des Beaux
Arts; won the grand prix de Rome in 1789;
member of the Institute (1816) and professor
in the École des Beaux Arts. Works:
The 76th Regiment recovering its Colours
at Innspruck (1808); Entry of the French
into Berlin (1811), Versailles Museum; Phocion's
Ashes, Phorbas presenting Œdipus
to the Queen of Corinth (1814); St. Louis
receiving the Communion (1817); St. Vincent
de Paul and the Foundlings (1824);
Rome giving Justinian's Code to the Earth
(ceiling in Louvre); Infant Œdipus presented
to Pericles, Louvre.—Larousse; Lejeune,
Guide de l'Amateur, i. 396.
MEYNIER, JULES JOSEPH, born in
Paris, Nov. 4, 1826. History and genre
painter, pupil of Delaroche, Gleyre, and
Bridoux. His pictures of religious subjects
are superficial in feeling. Medals: 1867;
2d class, 1877. Works: First Christians
(1867); The Miller with his Son and Donkey
(La Fontaine's fable); Staircase of Tersato
(1868); The Visitation, Church of Bourget;
Return from Golgotha; Victorious Love;
Poussin's Walk; The Bath; You shall be
Queen; Chrysantes and Daria (1877); Venus
punishing Love (1878); Virgin's Presentiment,
Awakening (1879); Angelic Salutation,
Christ followed by the Crowd (1880);
Acis and Galatea (1881); Charming Woman,
Woman playing a Flute (1882); Truth (1884);
Mary in Prayer, Women at the Bath (1885);
Judgment of Paris (1886).—Bellier, ii. 83.
MEYTENS (Mytens), MARTIN VON, born
in Stockholm, Aug. 24, 1696 (1695, ?), died
in Vienna, March 23, 1770. German school;
portrait painter, son and pupil of Peter Martin
Mytens, who was a grandson of Daniel
Mytens, the elder, and called to Stockholm
as court-painter to the King of Sweden.
Martin went early to Holland, and in 1714,
in the suite of George I., to England, thence
in 1717 to Paris, where he painted Louis
XV. and Peter the Great; visited the courts
of Germany, spent some years in Italy, especially
in Turin, Florence, and Rome (from
1724), and in 1726 went to Vienna, where
in 1732 he became court-painter, and in
1759 director of the Academy. Works:
Portraits of Emperor Charles VI. and Empress
Maria Theresa, Francis I., Stephen,
King Frederic I., Duke Charles Alexander
of Lorraine, Joseph II.; Five family groups,
