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MALADE Academy ; then of the St. Petersburg Acad- emy, where his Assassination of Czar Fedor Borissovich was awarded the second prize. He painted portraits almost exclusively for several years, but in 1860 he exhibited the Carnival in St. Petersburg, now belonging to the Emperor. After travelling in the East, he painted in 1876 the Transport of the Holy Carpet from Mecca to Cairo, also in the Emperor's Collection, which was ex- hibited with his Bashi-Bazouks at the Ex- position uuiverselle, Paris, 1878. Member of, and professor in, the St. Petersburg Academy. Other works : Roussalki (Water Nymphs), Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Peter the Great in his Workshop ; Player on the Psalterion ; Russian Wedding-Fe&st (1885), Charles William Schumann, New York. Portraits : Emperor Alexander II. (1881) ; Princess Yourievski and Family ; Family of Grand-Duchess Marie Paulovua. Vladi- mir Makovski, his brother, is a genre painter. MALADE IMAGINAIRE, Charles Rob- ert Leslie, South Kensington Museum, Lon- don ; canvas, H. 2 ft. x 3 ft. 2 in. Scene from Moliore's "Malade imaginaire." Ar- gan, pillowed in a chair at foot of his bed, appeals anxiously to M. Purgon, who is leaving the room in a rage ; Toinette, be- hind her master's chair, enjoys the success of her stratagem, while Beralde regards the doctor with contempt. R. Academy, 1843. MALARIA, Ei-nest Hibert, Luxembourg Museum, Paris ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. x G ft. 4 in. A boat gliding along the waters of the Pontine marshes between flat shores, under a sky heavy with pestilential vapours, carrying a poor family more or less affected by the miasma. Salon, 1850. Study, G. I. Seney sale, New York, 1885. See photo- gravure, Vol. H., page 220. MALBONE, EDWARD G., born in New- port, R. I., Aug., 1777, died in Savannah, Ga., May 7, 1807. Miniature painter, self- taught. Painted with success in many cit- ies of the United States ; visited London in 1801 and the West Indies in 1806. His best known work is The Hours, in which the present, past, and future are represented by female figures. It was purchased from the Malbone heirs for $1,200, and is now in the Providence Athenaeum. MALCHIN, KARL (WILHELM CHRIS- TIAN), born at Krupelin, Mecklenburg, May 14, 1838. Landscape painter, pupil of Weimar Art School under Theodor Hagen. Works : View near Biitzow, Mill at Eixeii, View of Schweriu (1867) ; Summer Morning on Lake (1874), Winter Landscape (1876), Pond among Willows (1878), Schweriu Gallery ; North German Landscape with Sheep (1877), National Gallery, Berlin ; Beginning of Spring; ^* Evening in to Autumn af- ^ ' ter Rain (1883); Village on the Baltic (Jubi- lee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886). Miiller, 350 ; Leixner, Mod. K, ii. 113 ; Schlie, 44. MALDEGHEM, ROMA1N EUGENE VAN, born at Deuterghem, West Flanders, April 23, 1813, died at Brussels, Aug. 26, 1867. History painter, pupil of Bruges and Antwerp Academies, at the latter under Wappers ; obtained in 1838 the first prize at Ghent and the grand prize for Rome at Antwerp ; visited Italy and the East, espe- cially Palestine, in 1838-42, and settled in Brussels, whither he returned, after hav- ing, from 1852, been director of Bruges Academy. W-orks : Fortune Teller (1836), Bruges Museum ; Oath of Hannibal (1838), Antwerp Museum ; Charles V. in his Cell (1838), Ghent Museum ; Rubens finding his Wife Dead (1838) ; Madonna, Virgin ap- pearing to St. Ignatius, St. Alphonso before the Virgin, St. Joseph's Convent, Brussels ; St. Simon receiving Seapulary from the Vir- gin, Allegory of France (1840); Elijah com- forted by the Angel ; Nativity ; St. Dom- inick receiving Rosary from the Virgin ; Eleazar and Rebekah ; Louis the Kind- Hearted giving St. Theodolphus his Free- dom ; St. Anthony receiving Pilgrims ; As- sumption ; Sermon on Mount ; Flight into Egypt ; St. Louis of Gouzaga ; Galileo in 183