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(1875); Grapes and Peaches; Banks of the Marne near Vignely (1876); Washerwomen of Vignely, Undergrowth in the Alps (1877); Decorative Panel (1879); Bouquet of Roses (1881); Cut Roses at Foot of Rosebush (1882); Pears and Peaches, Broken Branch (1883); Rose-bushes in the Old Park, Fruit-*piece (1885).—Bellier, ii. 14; Du Camp, Beaux-Arts, 84, 251, 347.



MAKART, HANS, born at Salzburg, May 29, 1840, died in Vienna, Oct. 3, 1884. History painter, pupil, in 1858, of Vienna Academy under Ruben, but, dissatisfied with the prevailing methods, left it after a few months, and returned on foot to Salzburg, whence, through the munificence of the Prince-Archbishop Maximilian von Tarnoczy, he soon proceeded to Munich, and there studied first under his relative, the landscape painter Schiffmann, and in 1861-65 at the Academy under Piloty; visited London and Paris in 1863, Italy in 1866, Venice and Vienna in 1868, Rome in 1869, and in the same year settled in Vienna at the invitation of the Emperor Francis Joseph, who caused a sumptuous studio to be prepared for the artist, and in 1876 conferred on him the title of professor. The winter of 1875-76 he spent in Egypt, then visited Antwerp, and in 1877 Spain. Professor at Vienna Academy from 1879; honorary member of Vienna, Berlin, and Munich Academies. Gold medals in Vienna, 1857, 1882; Medal of Honour, Paris, and L. of Honour, 1878; Officer, 1884. In August, 1884, he became insane. Works: Lavoisier in Prison (1861); Afternoon Pastime of Aristocratic Venetians (1862); Falstaff in the Basket (1864); Knight and Mermaids (1865), Schack Gallery, Munich; Leda (1866); Portraits in Rembrandt's manner, Roman Ruins (1867); Modern Amorettes (1868); Plague in Florence (1868), Count Pálffy, Hungary; Queen of Elves (1869), Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Juliet on the Bier (1869), Vienna Museum; Abundantia (1870); Cycle of Allegories (1870-72), Palais Dumba, Vienna; Four Divisions of Day, Two Scenes from Snow-Drop (1873); Caterina Cornaro (1873, of which we give a photogravure), National Gallery, Berlin; Scene from Midsummer-Night's Dream (1874); Cleopatra (1875), Stuttgart Museum; Antique Sail on the Nile, Moorish Prince, Two Fellah Women carrying Water, Two Nubian Girls (1875-76); Entry of Charles V. into Antwerp (1875-78), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Five Senses (1879); Ophelia, Diana's Hunting Party (1880), James A. Banker, Irvington, N. Y.; Summer (1881); Spring (1882); Cycle to Wagner's Trilogy of Nibelungs, Apotheosis of Art, Cycle in Art-historical Museum—Vienna (1883); Judith (1884); Bathers Surprised, T. A. Havemeyer, New York; Love-Dream, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.—Academy (1880), i. 328; Allgem. K. C., viii.; Art Journal (1881), 205; (1884), 350; Illustr. Zeitg. (1869), 101; (1875), i. 211; (1877), ii. 267; (1883), i. 292; Jordan (1885), i. 168; ii. 142; D. graph. K., ii. 11; iii. 27; Kunst-Chronik, ii. 168; v. 22, 163, 193; vii. 95; viii. 793; ix. 294; x. 694.; xiii. 441; xiv. 598; xv. 521; xvi. 465; xvii. 1, 309, 490; xviii. 11, 302, 462; xix. 741; xx. 13, 95, 383, 525, 557; La Ilustracion (1881), i. 283; ii. 178; (1884), i. 75, 379; Landsteiner, Hans Makart u. Rob. Hamerling (Vienna, 1873); Leixner, Mod. K., ii. 6; Bruno Meyer, Stud. u. Krit., 326, 345; Müller, 349; Neue illustr. Zeitg. (1885), i. 7; Pecht, ii. 340; Portfolio (1884), 223; (1886), 36, 49; D. Rundschau, xxv. 463; Land und Meer (1872), No. 2, 3; Westermann's Monatshefte, xlix. 378; Zeitschr. f. b. K., viii. (Mittheilungen, i. 42); xiv. 25, 193; xxi. 181, 214.


MAKOVSKI, KONSTANTIN, born in Moscow, June 30, 1839. Historical genre and portrait painter, pupil of the Moscow