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at the Bed of Ferdinand VII. (1843); Women at the Sepulchre, Portraits of Queen Isabella (1845), King Francisco, Duchesses of Alba and Medina-Cœli, and many others; New Song; Cigarette; In her Boudoir; Matinée Musicale; Portrait of Count Raczynski (1850), Raczynski Gallery, Berlin. His brother Luis, pupil of his father, took the grand prize for Rome in 1848, and is especially known through his Burial of St. Cecilia in the Catacombs (1855), Madrid Museum.—Kunstbl. (1855), 215; Larousse, x. 900; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 611; Müller, 347; Passavant, Christl. K. in Spanien, 118; Unsere Zeit (1859), 462.



MADRAZO, Don RAIMUNDO DE, born in Rome, July 24, 1841. Genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of Federico, and student in Paris at the École des Beaux Arts, and later of Léon Cogniet. Medal: 1st class, Paris, 1878; L. of Honour in 1878. Works: After Vespers; Andalusian Singer; La Aventurera; Playing Guitar; The Gypsy; End of a Masked Ball (1878), Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; The Comic Newspaper, Fair Masquerader, William Astor, ib.; Masqueraders, Fête during Carnival, William H. Vanderbilt, ib.; El Jaleo, Henry C. Gibson, Philadelphia; Dindon Tendre, A. J. Drexel, ib.; Pierrette (1878), Interior of S. Maria della Pace at Rome, Alexander Brown, ib.; My Model, La Soubrette (1882); Notturno, The Domino (1883). His brother, Don Ricardo, has acquired reputation as a painter in water-colours: Story-Teller of Algiers, Alexander Brown, Philadelphia; Venders of Fire-Arms in Morocco (1879); Riva degli Schiavoni (1882); Study of a Head (1884).—La Ilustracion (1879), i. 122; (1880), i. 76, 342; (1882), i. 3, 99, 402; (1884), i. 115, 378; Mag. of Art (1884), 10.


MADRUZZO, CRISTOFORO, Cardinal, portrait, Titian, Salvadori Collection, Trent; canvas, figure full-length, life-size. In the black robes and hat of a prince-bishop. Painted in 1548. Injured by time and restoration.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 445; C. & C., Titian, ii. 186.


MAECHSELKIRCHNER, GABRIEL, flourished about 1460-80. German school; history painter who, from 1467, painted, conjointly with Ulrich Füterer, for Kloster Tegernsee and Duke Albrecht IV. of Bavaria. His works are characterized by a fantastic realism in representing bad or noble characters with great ugliness or beauty respectively. Works: Christ bearing the Cross, Crucifixion, Schleissheim Gallery.—Förster, Gesch., ii. 252; Sighart, 569.



MAES, GODFRIED, the younger, born in Antwerp, Aug. 15, 1649, died there, May 30, 1700. Flemish school; history painter, son of Godfried the elder (designer and engraver, died in Antwerp, 1679), pupil of Peeter van Lint; entered the Antwerp guild in 1664, became master in 1672, and dean in 1682. Works: Martyrdom of St. George (1684), Antwerp Museum; St. Nicholas (1689), Ghent Museum.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 238; Kramm, iv. 1041; Rooses (Reber), 335; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), xi. 347; Van den Branden, 955.



MAES (Maas), NICOLAAS, born at Dordrecht in 1632, died in Amsterdam in December, 1693. Dutch school; genre and portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt, in whose manner he at first painted warmly coloured portraits of a reddish tint, but gradually came under influence of Flem-