Marquis of Lorne, Duke of Buccleugh, Hugh Blair, and Norman McLeod. He was a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, of which he was elected president in 1876, and he was knighted by the Queen the same year.—Academy (1882), i. 71; Athenæum (1882), i. 132.
MACRINO D'ALBA, born at Alba, died
before 1528. Real name Giovanni Jacopo
(Giangiacomo) Fava; also called de Alladio.
Piedmontese school, history painter; probably
studied in Milan, flourished about 1500
and worked at Alba, Asti, and Turin. An excellent
painter, of great expressiveness in his
countenances, brilliant colouring, masterly
treatment of details, fine feeling for chiaroscuro,
and solid impasto; the first Piedmontese
artist who made advances towards
the realistic style of the Paduans. Works:
Altarpiece in six panels with Madonna Enthroned
(1496), Certosa, Pavia; Madonna
with Saints and Angels (1498), Altar Wing
with SS. Louis and Paul (1506), do. with
St. John the Baptist, St. Lawrence and St.
Rose, Descent from the Cross, Several other
Altar Wings with Saints, Gallery, Turin; St.
Agatha, Academy, ib.; Madonna and Saints,
Städel Gallery, Frankfort.—Lanzi (Roscoe),
iii. 293; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 502;
Meyer, Künstl. Lex., i. 169.
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McWHIRTER, JOHN, born at Inglis
Green, near Edinburgh,
March 27,
1839. Landscape
painter; pupil of
art-school of Board
of Manufacturers,
Edinburgh; has
travelled in Norway,
Belgium, Italy,
the Tyrol, and
other countries in
search of subjects.
Became an A.R.S.A. in 1864, and A.R.A. in
1878; has resided in London since 1869.
In 1877 he visited the United States, spending
considerable time in California, making
studies in the Yosemite Valley. Works:
Arch of Titus, Campagna (1864); Temple
of Vesta at Rome (1865); Old Edinburgh
(1868); Loch Coruisk—Isle of Skye (1869);
Daybreak, Depths of the Forest (1870);
Isle of Skye (1872); Fisherman's Haven
(1873); Land of the Mountain and the
Flood (1875); Lady of the Woods (1876,
Taylor sale, 1883, £643); Over the Border,
Source of a River (1877); The Vanguard,
Three Graces (1878); Last Days of Autumn,
Valley by the Sea (Lee sale, 1879, £1,155),
Highland Solitude, Highland Pastoral (1879);
June, Lord of the Glen, May (1880); Roses
and Rabbits, Mountain Tops, Sunday in Highlands,
Summer Evening—Venice (1881);
Ossian's Grave, Highland Auction, Rainy
Day—Venice (1882); Sunset Fires, Nature's
Mirror, Highland Harvest (1883); Sermon
by the Sea, Windings of the Forth,
Home of the Grizzly Bear, Forest Solitude
(1884); Track of a Hurricane (1885); Three
Witches (1886).—Portfolio (1879), 93; Art
Journal (1879), 9.
MACY, WILLIAM STARBUCK, born in
New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 11, 1853. Landscape
painter; pupil of National Academy.
Studied in Munich four years, two of them
under Professor Velten. Sketched in Dakota
and Minnesota in 1879. Studios in
New Bedford and New York. Works: Lake
Starnberg, Early Winter (1877); Meadows
near Munich, Landscape (1878); Early Summer
(1879); Bavaria near Tyrol, Forest Scene
(1880); Edge of the Forest—Bavaria (1881);
On the Westport River (1882); Still Water
on the Seine (1883); Old Forest in Winter,
Early Winter, Winter Sunset (1884); Old
Mill (1885); January in Bermuda, Somerset
Bay, ib. (1886).—Sheldon, 204.
MADARÁSZ, VICTOR, born at Fünfkirchen,
Hungary, about 1828. History
painter, pupil in Vienna of Waldmüller;
went in 1857 to Paris, where he met with
success. Gold medal, Paris, 1861. Works:
Episode in History of Hungary (1855); Clara
Zach; Helen Zrinyi; Meeting of Zrinyi and
Frangepan, Pesth Museum; Beheading of
Ladislaus Hunyádi.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1861),
xi. 191; Wurzbach, xvi. 237.
