many altarpieces for country churches in Bohemia. Works: Portrait of King Wenceslaus II., Gallery, Prague; Portraits of Archbishops Chlumczansky and Kolowrat, Karolinum, ib.; Several other Archbishops, Archiepiscopal Palace, ib.; Professors Krombholz and Johann Fischer, Slavophiles Jungmann and Schafarschik, etc.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xx. 5; Wurzbach, xvi. 202.
MACHOLD, JOSEF, born at Benisch,
Silesia, Dec. 24, 1824. History painter,
pupil of Vienna Academy, but mostly self-taught;
spent three years in Munich, befriended
and influenced by Julius Schnorr,
whom he followed to Dresden; entered the
army in 1848, fought in twelve battles and
skirmishes during the campaign in Hungary,
and in 1857 became professor at the
military academy in Wiener-Neustadt.
Works: Roland Cycle (13 water-colours
after Uhland's ballad); Singing and Song
(6); Three Paintings after Polish Epic Marya;
Harald (after Uhland's Poem, 1866);
Scenes from Myths of Bacchus, Ceres, and Venus;
Scene from Midsummer-Night's Dream
(1867).—Müller, 346; Wurzbach, xvi. 206.
MACIP, VICENTE JUAN. See Joanes.
McLACHLAN, T. HOPE, born in England;
contemporary. Landscape painter;
exhibits at the Royal Academy and the
Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Head of Teesdale,
Scene from "Ancient Mariner" (1881);
Wilderness of the Dead Sea (1882); In the
Border Country (1883); On Bowes Moor—Teesdale
(1884); Barden Beck, When Leaves
fall in Russet Woods, Nightfall (1885).
MACLISE, DANIEL, born at Cork, Jan.
25, 1811 (Feb. 2, 1806 ?), died at Chelsea,
April 25, 1870. History painter, student
of the Cork Society of Arts, and of the Royal
Academy, London, where he won the gold
medal in 1831 for the best historical composition,
the Choice of Hercules; became
an A.R.A. in 1835, and R.A. in 1840. He
painted a few excellent portraits, among
them Charles Dickens (1839), but his chief
works are subject and historical pictures.
The later years of his life were much engrossed
by his compositions for the decoration
of the Houses of Parliament, especially
by his two large
water-glass paintings—Meeting
of Wellington
and Blücher after
Waterloo (46 ft. long),
and Death of Nelson
(1859-64). He executed
also a series of
designs—The Story of
the Norman Conquest—for
the Art Union,
and many book illustrations. Works: Puck
disenchanting Bottom (1832); All-Hallow Eve
(1833); Installation of Captain Rock (1834);
Chivalric Vow of Ladies and Peacock (1835);
Macbeth and the Witches (1836); Olivia
and Sophia fitting out Moses for the Fair
(1838); Banquet Scene in Macbeth (1840);
Malvolio and the Countess (1840), Play
Scene in Hamlet (1842), National Gallery;
Ordeal by Touch (1846); Gross of Green
Spectacles (1850); Caxton showing his Printing-Press
to Edward IV. (1851); Marriage
of Strongbow and Eva (1854), National Gallery,
Dublin; Origin of the Harp, Alan Potter,
Esq.; Scene from Midas, The Queen.
In fresco: Spirit of Justice, Spirit of Chivalry
(1850), House of Lords; Marriage of
Strongbow and Eva, Alfred in the Danish
Camp, Royal Gallery, Parliament House;
Comus, pavilion of Buckingham Palace.—O'Driscoll,
Memoir (1871); Redgrave; Ottley;
Cat. Nat. Gal.; Sandby, ii. 161.
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MacNEE, Sir DANIEL, born at Fintry,
Stirlingshire, June
4, 1806, died in
Edinburgh, Jan.
17, 1882. Portrait
painter, pupil of the
Trustees Academy,
Edinburgh, under
Sir William Allan.
Noted as a portrait
painter, and had
many distinguished sitters, among whom
were Lord Brougham, Viscount Melville,
