MUÑOZ, SEBASTIAN, born at Navalcarnero in 1654, died in Madrid in 1690. Spanish school; history painter, pupil of Claudio Coello, then in Rome of Carlo Maratti; on his return to Spain in 1684 assisted Coello in painting frescos at Saragossa, then painted in Madrid at the Alcazar, and was appointed court-painter in 1688. While employed in restoring the frescos of Herrera in Church of Atocha, he was killed by falling from the scaffolding. Works: Cupid and Psyche, Portrait of Queen Maria Luisa (1686); Eight Pictures on Life of St. Eloy (1688), S. Salvador, Madrid; St. Augustine conjuring the Locust Plague, Burial of Count de Orgaz, Artist's portrait, Madrid Museum. Fresco: Angelica and Medoro, Alcazar, Madrid.—Stirling, 1041.
MUÑOZ-DEGRAIN, Don ANTONIO;
contemporary. Genre painter. Medal, 1st
class, Madrid. Works: Othello and Desdemona
(1881); Don Quixote and Windmill,
Souvenir of Granada, Madrid Museum; Inundation
Scene, View in Venice (1883);
The Lovers of Teruel (1884).—La Ilustracion
(1881), i. 391; ii. 73; (1882), i. 251;
(1884), i. 382; ii. 2, 24.
MUNSCH, JOSEPH, born at Linz, Upper
Austria; contemporary. History painter,
pupil of Munich Academy under Philipp
Foltz. Works: Publication of Death Warrant
of Conradin of Suabia and Frederic of
Baden; Rudolf von Hapsburg beside Body
of Ottokar of Bohemia; A Chord (Jubilee
Exhib., Berlin, 1886).—Wurzbach, xix. 461.
MUNSCH, LEOPOLD, born in Vienna
in 1826. Landscape, genre, and interior
painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under
Joh. Nep. Geiger. His landscapes, mostly
enriched with castles, ruins, and other architecture,
are truthful copies of nature. Works:
Wood near Weidlingen; Castle Yard at Taufers,
Tyrol; Avenue in Schönbrunn Park;
Alpine Village; Schluderns in Tyrol; Room
in Schleissheim Castle; Before Serenissimo;
Oak Wood (Munich Exhibition, 1883).—Dioskuren,
1867; Müller, 386; Wurzbach, xix.
461.
MÜNSTER, PEACE OF, Gerard Terburg,
National Gallery, London; copper, H. 1 ft.
5 in. × 1 ft. 10 in.; signed, dated 1648. Assemblage
in the Rathhaus, Münster, May
15, 1648, for ratification of treaty between
the Dutch United Provinces and Spain. A
clerk is reading the oath of ratification, while
Barthold van Gent, for the Provinces, and
the Count of Peñaranda, for Spain, hold
copies of the paper. One of the most wonderful
assemblages of minute portraits ever
painted in oil, containing about thirty figures.
Passed from painter's family, late in
last century, to Van Leyden Gallery; thence
to Prince Talleyrand, to Buchanan (1817),
to Duc de Berri, and in 1837 to Prince Demidoff,
at whose sale (1868) it was bought
by Marquis of Hertford for £7,280; presented
by Sir Richard Wallace in 1871.—Art
Journal (1871), 294; (1872), 28; Cat.
Nat. Gal.
MUNSTERHJELM, (MAGNUS) HJALMAR,
born at Tunlois, Finland, in 1841.
Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy
under Oswald Achenbach, and Gude,
with whom he moved to Carlsruhe in 1865;
has visited Switzerland, the Rhine, Bavaria,
and the north of Europe. Works: Finnish
Landscape; Crawfishing in the North; View
on Frauenchiem Lake; Village Street in
Snow; Moonlight Night in Finland; Waterfalls
of Wallink.—Müller, 386.
MUNTHE, LUDVIG, born at Aaröen,
near Bergen, Norway, March 11, 1841.
Landscape painter, self-taught in Düsseldorf,
whither he went in 1861; has visited
Belgium, Holland, France, Scandinavia, and
Italy. He paints chiefly autumn and winter
scenes. Gold medal, Berlin, 1872; London,
1876; Paris, 1st class, 1878; L. of Honour,
1878; Order of Leopold, 1875; Member
of Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam
Academies; Swedish court-painter, 1875.
Works: Winter Scene (1869), do. (1878),
Autumn Landscape (1882), Christiania Gallery;
Winter Landscape (1870), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; do. (1871), Provinzial Museum,
Hanover; Potato Harvest; Cows in the
