- -er, pupil of Preller in Weimar, and in 1856
of Antwerp Academy under De Keyser; then visited Paris and returned to Weimar, where he was much influenced by Preller's and Genelli's classical compositions. Works: Erasmus of Rotterdam at Basle; Tartini's Dream, Schack Gallery, Munich; Genius of Weimar; Preparing for the crowning with Thorns; Ahasuerus turning the Redeemer from his Door; Landscape with Bacchic Procession; Poetical Justice, and decoration of ceiling, Royal Theatre, Dresden.—Kaulen, 122; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 573; Illustr. Zeitg. (1877), ii. 486; Müller, 355.
MARSILIO AND HIS BRIDE, Lorenzo
Lotto, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 2 ft.
6 in. × 3 ft. 2 in.; signed, dated 1523. A
couple exchanging the ring of betrothal;
Cupid, crowned with laurel, flutters behind
and unites them by a pressure of his hand
on their shoulders. Painted for Zanin Casotto,
of Bergamo. Collection of Philip IV.—C.
& C., N. Italy, ii. 514; Locatelli, i.
463.
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MARSTRAND, VILHELM NIKOLAJ,
born at Copenhagen,
Dec. 24, 1810, died
there, March 23, 1873.
History and genre
painter, pupil of Copenhagen
Academy
under Eckersberg;
went in 1836 to Munich
and Rome; in
1848 became professor
at, and in 1853-59
was director of, Copenhagen Academy.
Especially successful in humorous genre
scenes. Member of Copenhagen Academy
and medal in 1841. Works: Day of changing
Servants, Scene in Eating-House, Entry
into Cellar, Street Scene in Dog-Days, Auction
Scene, Musical Evening Party (1831-35);
Outside the Prison; Festival of St.
Anthony; Roman Citizens in a Tavern;
Return from October Festival in Rome
(1841), Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen;
Erasmus Montanus (1844), Lying-in Room
(1845), Sunday in Dalecarlia (1853), A Visit
(1857), Last Supper (1869), Portrait of the
Painter Constantin Hansen (1862), do. of
the Art-Historian Hoyen (1869), Roman
Woman in Carnival Attire, The Misshapen
Lover, Copenhagen Gallery; Scene from
Holberg's Would-be Politician (1852), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; Holberg and the Two
Fools; Minister and Poet; Historical frescos
in Burial Chapel of Christian IV., Roeskilde
Cathedral (1861-66).—D. Kunstbl.
(1852), 361; (1855), 299; Sig. Müller, 237;
Weilbach, 455.
MARSYAS. See Apollo and Marsyas.
MARSYAS, YOUNG, Elihu Vedder, private
gallery. The young satyr, nude, seated
at the foot of a large tree-trunk, in a landscape
covered with snow, is playing pan-*pipes,
with a circle of hares sitting around
in a listening attitude. Exposition universelle,
1878.
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MARTENS, THEODOR, born at Wismar,
Mecklenburg, Aug. 26, 1822, died at Portici
in Oct., 1884. Landscape painter, pupil in
Düsseldorf of Aug. Weber, and in Paris of
Lambinet; studied much after Corot, Diaz,
and Daubigny, whose manner greatly influenced
his art. Works: Landscape on Baltic
Coast; On the Heights in Thuringia;
Sunset; Huntsman's Lodge near Wismar;
Waterfall; Marine; Oaks of Ivenau; Willows
near Mill Pond (1875), Village of Mühlen-Eichsen
1879), Schwerin Gallery.—Kunst-Chronik,
xx. 90; Müller, 355.
MARTERSTEIG, FRIEDRICH WILHELM,
born at Weimar, March 11, 1814.
German school; history painter, pupil of
Weimar Art School (1829-34), of Düsseldorf
Academy under Hildebrandt and Schadow,
and in Paris of Delaroche; began with
genre scenes, then treated events from the
Thirty Years' War, the Reformation, and
