Alicante; View of Copenhagen Harbour.—Sig. Müller, 255; Weilbach, 474.
MELCHIOR, WILHELM, born at
Nymphenburg in 1813, died in Munich,
Sept. 9, 1860. Animal painter, son of Georg
Wilhelm (landscape and portrait painter,
1780-1826), pupil of Munich Academy; fancied
especially scenes after a chase. Works:
Booty watched by Dogs, Fox caught by
Dogs (1849), New Pinakothek, Munich; Before
the Badger's Dwelling; Cat pinched
by Crawfish. His brother Josef (born in
1810) was an esteemed painter of horses.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xxi. 291; Cotta's Kunstbl.
(1848), 234; Vinc. Müller, Handb., 161.
MELDOLLA, ANDREA. See Schiavone,
Andrea.
MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, Rubens,
Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 6 ft. 1 in. × 9
ft. 4 in. Meleager presenting the head of
the Calydonian boar to Atalanta, who is
seated in a landscape at foot of a tree; between
them stands Cupid; several dogs
and implements of the chase, painted by
Snyders, near the group. Landscape probably
by Wildens. Taken to Paris in 1800;
returned in 1815. Similar picture, engraved
by Bartsch, Dresden Gallery; another, engraved
by Bloemart, Blenheim sale (1886),
Cavendish Bentinck, £520; a third in Madrid
Museum.—Smith, ii. 84, 247; ix. 277.
By Rubens, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 10 ft. 4 in. × 13 ft. Attacking the Calydonian boar, which is at bay beside a fallen tree; several dogs are wounded, and a man lies dead at the feet of the beast; horsemen, with javelins, are galloping up to the aid of Meleager and Atalanta, who has just wounded the boar with an arrow. Animals by Snyders; landscape by Wildens. Etched by Prenner. Similar subject, with changes, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; another, engraved by Bolswert, Lady Stuart; a third in Madrid Museum.—Smith, ii. 88, 157, 275.
MELEM, HANS, born at Mehlem, near
Bonn, in 1493. German school; flourished
in Cologne as a contemporary, perhaps
scholar, of the Master of the Death of the
Virgin. His only certain work is a signed
portrait of himself (1530), in the Munich
Gallery. A triptych there, with Crucifixion
and Saints, attributed to Melem, is by one
of his pupils. He was inferior in drawing,
execution, and colouring.—Förster, ii. 183;
Kugler (Crowe), i. 228; Merlo, Nachrichten,
283; W. & W., ii. 497.
MÉLIDA, Don ENRIQUE, contemporary.
Genre painter, pupil in Paris of
Meissonier; paints ingenious genre scenes,
eminently individualized, often humorous.
Medal, 3d class, 1886. Works: Mass in
Spain (1872), Luxembourg Museum; Round
of the Santo Oficio; Antechamber of Prince
de la Paz; Monkey-Story; Falling Flat;
After the Procession; First Walk; Bull-Fight
Lesson (1879); Illusions to the Winds
(1880); A Study, Disturbed Festival (1883);
Herrar, o quitár el banco, Mardi-Gras before
Theatre of Marcellus at Rome (1884); A
Maja (1885); Carmen, Under the Elm-tree
(1886); Consultation (Jubilee Exhib., Berlin,
1886).—La Ilustracion (1879), i. 283;
(1881), i. 138; ii. 375; (1883), i. 275;
(1884), i. 341.
MÉLIN, JOSEPH, born in Paris, Feb.
14, 1814. History and animal painter, pupil
of Paul Delaroche and David d'Angers.
Medals: 3d class, 1843, 1855; 2d class,
1845, 1858. Works: St. James pardoning
his Accuser (1843); Christ healing Blind
Man (1845); Battle of Ravenna, English
Dogs (1847); Asleep (1848); Dogs and Bull-Dogs,
Boar-Hunting (1850); Deer's Cry,
Dog Barking, Dogs in Leash (1855); Uncoupled,
Relays, Pointer (1857); Starting
Again, Newfoundland Dog (1861); Huntsman
leading Dogs against a Boar, English
Pointer (1863); Deer-Hunting (1864); English
Dogs, Terriers (1865); Vendéean Dogs
(1866); Bourbon Oxen (1867); Terriers
Fighting, Heads of Vendéean Dogs (1868);
English and Vendéean Dogs (1869); Nymph
attaching a Dog to its Leash (1873); Deer's
Cry (1874); At Fault (1879); Dogs' Heads,
A Virgin (1880); Hallooing on Foot (1882);
Lost Dog Barking, Two Scents (1883); Fly-
