killed by his Daughters, Polyxena on the Tomb of Achilles (1878); Ecstatic of 18th Century, Blanche of Castile (1879); Death of La Tour d'Auvergne (1880); Sacrifice of Family to Country (1881); The Family, An Egyptologist (1882); Carnot at Battle of Wattignies (1883); La Vision (1884); Stigmatic of the Middle Ages (1885); Death of Pichegru, Morphine (1886).
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MOREELSE, PAULUS, born at Utrecht
in 1571, died there in 1638. Dutch school;
portrait painter; pupil in Delft of Mierevelt,
finished his studies in Rome; master of
Utrecht guild in 1596. His style is note-*worthy,
as he was one of the forerunners of
Rembrandt. He was member of the Council
and City Treasurer. Painted a few historical
pictures, but principally portraits.
Works: Princess of Hanau (1617); Countess
Ernestine of Nassau, Artist's Portrait,
Hague Museum; Frederick of Bohemia,
Mary of Utrecht (1615); Shepherdess
(1630), Admiral Swartenhout (1627), Two
Female portraits, Amsterdam Museum;
Vertumnus and Pomona, Rotterdam Museum;
Man holding an Apple (1638, probably
last work), Brussels Museum; Portrait of
a Lady (1628), Berlin Museum; do., Copenhagen
Gallery; Madonna (1631), Flute-*player,
Aschaffenburg Gallery; Male portrait
(1630), Carlsruhe Gallery; do., Dresden
Museum; do. (2, 1596, 1598), Female
do. (2, one dated 1632), Cologne Museum;
Young Woman with her Child, do. with
Shell and Fishing Rod, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Shepherdess (1624), Schleissheim
Gallery; Portrait of a Lady (1620), do. of
Young Gentleman (1621), Shepherd Boy
(1627), Mother and Child, Two others,
Schwerin Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxii.
219; Immerzeel, ii. 239; Kugler (Crowe), i.
256; Kramm, iv. 1151; Ch. Blanc, École
hollandaise; De Stuers, 94; La Ilustracion
(1883), ii. 347.
MOREL-FATIO, ANTOINE LÉON, born
at Rouen, Jan. 17, 1810, died in Paris, March
4, 1871. Landscape painter; was the son
of wealthy parents. First made himself
known by a picture of the Bombardment
of Algiers, at which he assisted. Died of
grief in the Louvre when the Prussians entered
it. Medals: 3d class, 1837; 2d class,
1843, 1848; L. of Honour, 1848; Officer,
1866; appointed custodian of the Louvre
in 1866. Works: Isle of Wight (1833);
Street of Bab-Azoun in Algeria, Mosque of
the Couloughis (1834); Gust of Wind in the
Harbour of Algiers (1835); Fight of Algesiras
(1836), Attack on Algiers (1837), Versailles
Museum; Coast of Brittany (1837);
Entrance to Port of Havre, Entrance to
Marseilles (1838); Fight of the Vengeur
(1840); San Juan d'Ulloa (1841); Transshipment
of Napoleon at Cherbourg in 1840,
Amsterdam in 1700 (1842); Slave-ship
(1843); Bombardment of Tangier (1845);
Tortoise Island (1849), Arras Museum;
English Iron-clad Fleet at Cherbourg in
1865, Taking of Citadel of Saïgon, 1859,
Versailles Museum, etc.—Bellier, ii. 125;
Larousse.
MORELLI, DOMENICO, born in Naples
in 1826. Real name D. Soliero. History
and genre painter, pupil of Naples Academy,
then in Rome of Camillo Guerra, and,
influenced by Filippo Palizzi, studied from
nature, and, during a second stay at Rome,
under Overbeck; after suppression of the
national uprising in 1848-49, in which he
had taken an active part, he visited the art-*schools
of London, Paris, Germany, Holland,
and Belgium; won first prize at Naples
in 1855; gold medals, 1861, 1867;
Paris, 2d class, 1869. Often combines landscape
with his subjects. Member of several
Academies. Works: Saul calmed by David;
Farewell between Conrad and Medora (By-
