MESZÖLY, GÉZA VON, born in Hungary; contemporary. Landscape painter, studied in Munich. Medal, Munich, 1883. Works: Fishermen's Huts on Platten Lake, Pesth Museum; Twilight on Platten Lake, Banks of do., do. with Fowls (1883); Water Carrier on Banks of the Theiss (1885).—Müller, 367.
METELLLI (Mitelli), AGOSTINO, born
in Bologna, March 16, 1609, died in Madrid,
Aug. 2, 1660. Bolognese school; pupil
of the Carracci and of Falcetta the
architect; became the collaborator of Colonna,
and after executing many works with
him in Bologna, Rome, and other cities, accompanied
him in 1659 to Spain, where he
died.—Malvasia, ii. 345; Lanzi, iii. 137;
Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Siret, 594.
METTENLEITER, JOHANN JAKOB,
born at Grosskuchen, Würtemberg, Aug. 9,
1750, died in St. Petersburg in 1825. History
and portrait painter, pupil at Schwäbisch
Gmünd of Urban, and in Mannheim
of Brand, then worked in Speyer; went to
Holland, and thence, as a soldier, to the
Cape of Good Hope, where he earned by
portrait painting enough to buy himself
off; returned to Amsterdam; went in 1775
for one year to Italy, and then to Munich,
where he copied especially after Mieris and
Dou; settled in 1778 at Augsburg, whence
he went again to Amsterdam, then to Vienna,
and, in 1786, to St. Petersburg.
Works: Resurrection (1785), Augsburg Cathedral;
two genre scenes with portraits of
Obwexer Family; two scenes from Götz von
Berlichingen.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 524.
METRODORUS, Greek painter and philosopher,
of Athens, 2d century B.C. Probably
identical with writer on architecture
of same name. When L. Æmilius Paulus
asked the Athenians (168 B.C.) to send him
a tutor for his children and a painter to
celebrate his triumph, Metrodorus was selected
as uniting both qualifications in his
own person.—Pliny, xxv. [135].
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METSU, GABRIEL, born in Leyden in
1630, died in Amsterdam, buried Oct. 24,
1667. Dutch school; genre and portrait
painter, son of and probably first instructed
by Jacob Metsu
(a Fleming, who
had settled in
Holland); then
pupil of, or at
least influenced
by, Gerard Dou,
and afterwards
by Rembrandt;
entered the guild
of Leyden in
1648, but left his native place in 1650,
and settled in Amsterdam, where he married
in 1658, and took the freedom of that
city in 1659. This distinguished master
shows in his style the influence of Terburg
and Dou; in refinement of drawing and
picturesque composition no painter of small
subjects equalled him. In pictures of his
earlier period a warm harmony of great
clearness predominates; in his later works
the tone is cooler, finely balanced, occasionally
somewhat spotty in effect. He painted
chiefly scenes from the upper classes of society,
yet he took pleasure in representing
market scenes, huntsmen, cook-maids, and
the like. He treated mythological and allegorical
subjects exceptionally well. Works:
Duet, Music Lesson, Drowsy Landlady, National
Gallery, London; Female Fruit Dealer,
Gentleman playing Violoncello, Girl
drinking Champagne, Portrait of himself,
Buckingham Palace, ib.; Woman selling
Herrings, Lady caressing Spaniel, Horseman
before a House, Bridgewater Gallery,
ib.; Sleeping Huntsman, Sir Richard Wallace,
ib.; Young Girl Drawing, Old Woman
Reading, Lord Ashburton, ib.; Dictating
the Letter, Gentleman Writing, Lady reading
a Letter, Mr. Hope, ib.; Intruder, Mr.
Baring, ib.; Corset Bleu, Mr. Neeld, ib.;
Corset Rouge, W. Long, ib.; Dead Hen
Suspended, Madrid Museum; Woman taken
in Adultery, Vegetable Market of Amsterdam,
Lady and Officer, Music Lesson, Reveller,
Apple Peeler, Chemist, Portrait of
