of Munich Academy. Works: Landscape in Approaching Storm; Moonlight Landscape (1837); Landscape with Ruin of Castle and Torrent.—D. Kunstbl. (1852), 51; Kunst-Chronik, iv. 144; Raczynski, ii. 343; Söltl, 291.
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MEULEN, ADAM FRANS VAN DER,
born in Brussels,
Jan. 11, 1632,
died in Paris,
Oct. 15, 1690.
Flemish school;
genre, landscape,
and battle painter,
pupil of Peeter
Snayers. He
became court-painter
to Louis
XIV., was lodged at the Gobelins, had a
pension of 6,000 livres, and accompanied
the king to Flanders to paint his battles.
Member of the Academy of Painting, 1673;
counsellor, 1681; first do. 1686. His panoramic
views are painted with facility, but,
apart from their historical interest, are of no
great value. Works: Entry of Louis XIV.
into Arras, do. into Dinant, Siege of Maestricht,
View of Fontainebleau, and nineteen
others, Louvre; Army of Louis XIV. encamped
before Tournai, Brussels Museum;
Convoy in Mountainous Landscape (1661),
Rotterdam Museum; Surrender of City in
Lorraine, Basle Museum; Attack of Cavalry,
Musée Rath, Geneva; Winter Landscape
with Cavalry Skirmish, Aschaffenburg Gallery;
Convoy passing through Village (1660),
Augsburg Gallery; View of Versailles, Berlin
Museum; Entry of Duke of Alva into
Brussels, Travelling Train of a Queen of
France, Cassel Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish,
Darmstadt Museum; Excursion of Louis
XIV. to Vincennes, Entry of Louis XIV.
into Arras in 1667, Dresden Museum; View
of Fontainebleau, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Taking of Dole in 1668, Siege of Tournay,
Louis XIV. receiving an Ambassador, while
bombarding Oudenarde, Taking of Lille,
Old Pinakothek, Munich; Louis XIV. advancing
towards Dinan, Schleissheim Gallery;
Group of Horsemen, Cavalry Combat,
Schwerin Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish, Museum,
Vienna; Theatre on Market Square,
Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Sea and Cavalry
Fight near Shore, Harrach Gallery, ib.;
Louis XIV. and Suite near a Dutch Town
besieged by him, Skirmishes (2), Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Attack of Cavalry,
Madrid Museum; Battle of Treviri, Siege
of Chivasso in 1639, Landscape with Travellers
and Horses, Horse Market, Turin
Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish, Vienna Museum;
five pictures, Buckingham Palace,
London; Fleet Review at Dunkirk, Lord
Scarsdale, Kedleton Hall; Progress of Louis
XIV., National
Gallery,
Edinburgh; Cavalry Combat (2), New
York Museum.—Fétis, Les artistes belges
à l'étranger, ii, 104.—Immerzeel, ii. 221;
Jal, 860; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 340; Michiels,
ix. 282; Burger, Musées, ii. 346.
MEULEMANS, ADRIAAN, born at Dordrecht
in 1766, died at Scheveningen in
1834. Portrait and interior painter, pupil
of Michiel Versteeg, in whose style he
painted scenes by lamp- and candle-light.
Member of Brussels Academy in 1819.
Works: Old Woman reading, Kitchen by
Lamp-light (1817), Amsterdam Museum.—Immerzeel,
ii. 219; Kramm, iv. 1107.
MEULENER (Meulenaer, Molenaer),
PEETER, born in Antwerp, baptized Feb.
18, 1602, died there, buried Nov. 27, 1654.
Flemish school; landscape and battle painter,
grandson of Cornelis Molenaer, perhaps
a pupil of Peeter Snayers; master of the
guild in 1631-32. Works: Two war
scenes (1644), Madrid Museum; Battle of
Duke Christian of Brunswick (1646), Brunswick
Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish (1650),
Nostitz Gallery, Prague.—Riegel, Beiträge,
ii. 110; Van den Branden, 668.
MEUNIER, CONSTANTIN, born at Brussels
in 1831. History and genre painter,
pupil of Brussels Academy under Navez.
Gold medal in Brussels, 1869; medal in
