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Sunnyside—Home of Washington Irving; Cave of the Winds—Niagara (1878); Near Biddeford—Maine, T. B. Clarke, New York; Napanock Mills (1879); Hunting Days (1880); Winter Evening on the Hudson (1881); Market-Place—Montreal (1882); Vesper Hour, Where Swallows Skim (1883); Memory of June, Ice Harvest, Cross-Road Bridge (1884); Old Mill-Race on Whippany River—New Jersey, November Day, ib. (1885); Long Pond—New Hampshire, Late Autumn (1886).


MacCULLOCH, HORATIO, born in Glasgow, Scotland, November, 1805, died in Edinburgh, June 24, 1867. Landscape painter, pupil in Glasgow of John Knox, a locally known landscape painter. Exhibited frequently at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, of which he was elected an associate in 1834 and a member in 1838. Removed to Edinburgh in 1847. Painted chiefly Scottish scenery with great freshness and truth. Works: Deer Forest in Skye; My Heart's in the Highlands; Druid Stones by Moonlight; Bridge over the Avon near Hamilton.—Redgrave.


MACEDONE, IL. See Clovio, Giorgio Giulio.



McENTEE, JERVIS, born at Rondout, N. Y., July 14, 1828. Landscape painter, pupil of F. E. Church. In 1869 visited Europe, studied in the principal art galleries on the Continent, and sketched in Italy and Switzerland. Elected an A.N.A. in 1860, and N.A. in 1861. Studio in New York. Works: Virginia in 1863 (1867); Venice, October Snow (1870); Scribner's Mill (1871), Robert Gordon; Autumn, Robert Hoe, New York; Old Mill in Winter, R. L. Stuart, ib.; Autumn Day, Charles Stuart Smith, ib.; Wood Path, Henry James; Cape Ann (1874); Song of Summer (1876); Winter in the Mountains (1878); Clouds (1879); Edge of a Wood, November (1880); Kaatskill River (1881), Joseph Cornell, New York; Indian Summer, Valley of the Humboldt (1882); Uplands in Autumn, Wintry River, Autumn Memory (1883); Kaatskills in Winter, Yellow Autumn Woods, Shadows of Autumn (1884); Christmas Eve, Sundown in Winter (1885); Ashokan—November, Glimpse of Hunter Mountain, Shadows of Autumn, Winter Morning (1886).—Sheldon, 51.


MACHARD, JULES LOUIS, born at Sampans (Jura), Sept. 22, 1839. History and portrait painter, pupil of Baille and Signol, and of the École des Beaux Arts. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1865. Paints gracefully drawn and poetically composed mythological scenes, and much-admired portraits. Medals: 1st class, 1872; 2d class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: A Fancy (1865); Angelica chained to a Rock (1869), Dôle Museum; Narcissus and the Spring (1872); Silenus (1874); Psyche surrendered to Cupid (1876), Transit of Venus (1877), Duke of Buccleuch; Young Woman wearing a Hood (1880); Death of Medusa, Besançon Museum.—Bellier, ii. 6; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 225, 326, 368; Gaz. des B. Arts (1865), xix. 286.


MACHEATH, CAPTAIN, Gilbert S. Newton, Marquis of Lansdowne, Bowood House, near Chippenham. Scene from Gay's Beggar's Opera (1727). Captain Macheath in Newgate, upbraided by Polly Peachum, to whom he is married, and by Lucy, whom he has promised to marry. Painted in 1826. Bought by Marquis of Lansdowne for 500 guineas.


MACHEK, ANTON, born at Podlaschitz, Bohemia, in 1771, died at Prague, Nov. 18, 1844. History and portrait painter, pupil in Prague of Wenzel Bluma (died in 1794), and of Ludwig Kohl, then of the newly created Academy (1800), where he won the second and soon after the first prize; finally of the Vienna Academy. Having painted several members of the Imperial family with great success, he rapidly acquired popularity as a portrait painter, especially after his return to Prague in 1806; also painted