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First Sight of Eve (1813), Clytie (1814), and Joshua commanding the Sun to stand still (1816), the last of which gained him a premium of £100 at the British Institution, and the appointment of historical landscape painter to the Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold. His designs for Paradise Lost, for which he received £2,000, show great poetic grandeur. He painted many clever water-colour views of the valley of the Thames and other English rivers. Works: Fall of Babylon (1819); Macbeth (1820); Belshazzar's Feast (1821); Destruction of Pompeii (1822), National Gallery, London; Seventh Plague, Paphian Bower (1823); Creation (1824); Deluge (1825); Fall of Nineveh (1828); Death of Moses (1838); Last Man (1839); Eve of the Deluge, Assuaging of the Waters (1840); Celestial City, Pandemonium (1841); Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1852).—Redgrave; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Ottley; Cat. Nat. Gal.


MARTIN, NABOR, born in Ghent in 1404, died about 1453. Flemish school; free of the guild of St. Luke in 1437. Works: Nativity, with portraits of Philip the Good, his Wife, and Child (1448), Grande Boucherie, Ghent; Adoration of Infant Christ, fresco, ib.—C. & C., Flemish Painters, 242; Kugler (Crowe), i. 90.


MARTIN, PAUL, born at Kaiserslautern, Bavaria, Aug. 17, 1821. History and genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Josef Bernhardt; studied in Paris (1846) under Gleyre, and settled in Munich. Works: Tilly's Entry into Magdeburg (1857); Cromwell in Meditation before the Crown of England (1858); Garibaldi (1860); Loreley (1867); Boy playing with Dog, New Pinakothek, Munich; Wood-Nymph; Munich Shoemaker's Apprentices; Scene from Death of Wallenstein (1883); Among Flowers (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886). Frescos: Count Arco's Sacrifice in Tyrol in 1703, Palatine Philip defending Vienna against Soliman in 1529, Elector Otto Heinrich building Wing of Heidelberg Castle in 1557, National Museum, Munich.—Müller, 356; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), ii. 484; (1882), ii. 225.


MARTIN, PIERRE DENIS, born about 1673, died in Paris in 1742. French school; landscape and battle painter, pupil of Parrocel and of Van der Meulen; painter in ordinary to the king and to the czarina. Works: Louis XV. at a Stag-Hunt (1730), Louvre, Paris; Cavalcade of Louis XV. after the Coronation (1724), View of Versailles (1722), do. of Trianon (2), do. of Châteaux de Marly (2), Saint-Hubert, Meudon, Madrid, Fontainebleau (1722), Chambord, Bosquets de Versailles (2), Bassin d'Apollon and Canal de Versailles, Engine and Aqueduct of Marly, Versailles Museum; View of St. Cloud, Nantes Museum.—Bellier, ii. 41.


St Martin dividing his Mantle, Anton van Dyck, Saventhem.

MARTIN, ST., DIVIDING HIS MANTLE, Anton van Dyck, church at Saventhem, near Brussels; wood, H. about 5 ft. 9 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. Nearly the same in composition as the picture by Rubens. The woman and children are omitted, St. Martin is a portrait of Van Dyck himself, and the horse is the one given him by Rubens. Painted by Van Dyck for a young lady at Saventhem, who presented it to the parish church. Taken