MIROU, ANTON, flourished 1614-53 in Flanders. Flemish school; painted landscapes with biblical scenes in manner of Jan Brueghel; also hunting-pieces with horsemen. Works: Wood Landscape with Hunters (1614), Gotha Museum; Wood Interior with Christ's Temptation (1607), Schleissheim Gallery; Duck-Hunting (1653), Berlin Museum; Landscape with Saul's Conversion (?), Museum, Vienna; two Landscapes, Schönborn Gallery, ib.; Landscape, Copenhagen Gallery; two great Landscapes with many figures, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Landscape with Abraham and Hagar, Madrid Museum.—Nagler, ix. 313.
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The Misers, Jan Massys, Windsor Castle.
MISERS, THE, Jan Massys, Windsor Castle; wood, H. 3 ft. 8 in. × 3 ft. Two figures, a man and his wife, seated at a table, the former writing in a ledger, the latter leaning one arm on his shoulder and the other on the table, on which are jewels, coins, an inkhorn, a purse, etc. Long in Amsterdam, whence purchased in last century for the royal collection. Attributed to Quinten, but probably a repetition by Jan Massys of a picture by his father. Engraved by Richard Earlom; Fittler.—Réveil, ix. 632; Kugler (Crowe), i. 116.
MISSISSIPPI, DISCOVERY OF THE,
William H. Powell, rotunda of Capitol,
Washington; canvas, H. 12 ft. × 18 ft.
Fernando de Soto and his followers coming
in sight of the Mississippi River in June,
1540, near the present site of Helena, Ark.
Painted in 18— for $12,000. Engraved on
back of $10 United States National Bank
notes.
MITELLI. See Metelli.
MITHERLESS BAIRN, Thomas Faed,
Melbourne Gallery, Victoria. The interior
of a cottage; at right, a mother with her infant
in her arms and an older child standing
behind her chair; in centre, the grandmother
and two other children; all are
looking with sympathy at the mitherless
bairn, who with downcast eyes stands beside
a chair at left. Painted in 1855; sold
at Christie's in 1886 for £945.
MNASITHEUS, of Sicyon, third-rate
painter.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [146]; Brunn, ii.
292.
MNASITIMUS, third-rate painter, son
and pupil of Aristonidas.—Pliny, xxxv. 40
[146].
MOB CAP. See Boothby, Penelope.
MOCETTO (Moceto, Mozzetto), GIROLAMO,
of Verona, end of 15th and beginning
of 16th century. Venetian school;
journeyman to Giovanni Bellini, and perhaps
to one of the Vivarini. Best known by his
copper-plates. He was one of the few Italian
masters of the time who were not influenced
by the works of Dürer. The great window
of S. Giovanni e Paolo at Venice is signed
Hieronymus Mocetus. Lazari says it was
painted from his cartoon in 1473 (?). Among
his paintings are a Madonna, Chapel of S.
Biagio, SS. Nazario e Celso, Verona; another,
Vicenza Gallery; and the bust of a man,
Modena Gallery.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 504;
Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Gaz. des B.
Arts (1859), xi. 321; Vasari, ed Le Mon.,
v. 12; Burckhardt, 190; Bartsch, xiii. 215;
