Academy, London. Has painted the portraits of many distinguished clergymen, among them Drs. Guthrie, Cunningham, Begg, and John Bruck. Ideal work: Four-*score Years (1885), Thomas Oliver, Borsham, Kent. He is the father of Robert Walker Macbeth; of James Macbeth, landscape and portrait painter; and of H. R. Macbeth, genre and portrait painter, who calls himself, for distinction's sake, H. Macbeth-Raeburn.—Portfolio (1886), 25.
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MACBETH, ROBERT WALKER, born
in Glasgow in
1848. Landscape
and genre painter,
son and pupil
of Norman Macbeth,
portrait
painter, and student
in London
of Royal Academy;
elected associate
of the Society
of Painters in Water Colours in 1871,
and A.R.A. in 1883. Is also an etcher of
ability. Works: A Lincolnshire Gang
(1876); Potato Harvest in the Fens (1877);
Sedge-Cutting, Early Morning (1878); The
Ferry (1881); Betrothed, Ferry Inn, Waiting
(1882); Sacrifice, Betrothed, The Signal
(1883); Fen Farm, Pied Piper of Hamelin
(1884); Ripe October (1885); A Sodden
Fen (1886).—Art Journal (1883), 95.
MacCALLUM, ANDREW, born in Nottingham,
England, in 1828. Landscape
painter, pupil of the Nottingham School of
Art, and in 1849 of the Somerset House
School of Design, London. Was a teacher
in Manchester in 1851-53, when he went to
Italy to select examples of mural paintings
for the South Kensington Museum. Opened
a studio in London in 1858. Works: Approach
of Malaria, Ancient Rome (1868);
Moorland Queen (bought by John Phillip,
R.A.); Views near Balmoral (painted for the
Queen); Sultry Eve (1876), Centennial Exhibition,
Philadelphia; Glassalt Sheil—Glen
Muich (1877).
MACCARI, CESARE, born in Siena, May
9, 1840. History painter, pupil of Siena
Academy, then in Florence of Luigi Mussini;
continued his studies in Rome, whence
he visited Assisi and Venice, acquired reputation
especially with fresco paintings executed
by order of Victor Emmanuel in the
Chapel del Sudario and in the Quirinal.
Gold medals in Siena and Parma, 1869;
medal in Philadelphia, 1876; great prize in
Turin, 1880. Professor at Accademia S.
Luca in Rome. Member of Rome, Venice,
Bologna, and Genoa Academies. Order of
Italian Crown. Works: Rebecca and Eleazer;
Leonardo da Vinci painting Mona
Lisa (1865); Vittoria Colonna meditating
over Michelangelo's Poems (1868); Sira
sacrificing herself for Fabiola (1869); Fond
Memories, Music hath Charms, Descent
from Cross (1870-73); In the Triclinium,
Flower on Raphael's Grave (1879); Deposition
of Pope Sylverius (1880); Aristocratic
Pastime, Two Dandling Venetian Women,
Day of First Communion in Venice; Fortune
Teller, Corcoran Gallery, Washington.
Frescos: Four Evangelists (1864, Marquis
Pieri Nerli's Villa at Quinciano); Ceilings
in Chapel del Sudario; Tobias burying the
Dead (Chapel at Campo Veramo); Triumph
of the Three Graces, Quirinal.—Meyer,
Conv. Lex., xviii. 621, 629; Müller, 345.
MACCHIAVELLI, ZANOBI, flourished
in 1474. Florentine school; called by Vasari
a pupil of Benozzo Gozzoli, but his
manner is that of one who also studied in
the school of Fra Filippo. His Coronation
of the Virgin, dated 1473, Louvre, is not
one of his best works. Better is the Madonna
and Saints, signed but undated, Pisa
Academy.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 517; Vasari,
ed. Le Mon., iv. 191.
McCORD, GEORGE HERBERT, born
in New York in 1840. Landscape painter,
pupil of Professor Morse. Has made many
sketches in New England, Canada, Florida,
and the West. Exhibited first at the National
Academy in 1868. Elected an A.N.A.
in 1880. Studio in New York. Works:
