Vienna, 1873; Order of Leopold. Works: Martyrdom of St. Stephen (1866), Ghent Museum; Pietà; Burial of Trappist Monk, Courtray Museum; Defence of Brabant Peasants in 1797, Brussels Museum; Frescos in St. Joseph's, Louvain; Brazier's Shop (1880); Casting of Steel (1881); Lassitude (1882); Miner's Descent (1885).—Müller, 368.
MEURANT. See Murant.
MEURON, ALBERT DE, born at Neuchâtel;
contemporary. Landscape and animal
painter, son and pupil of Maximilien
de Meuron, then in Paris pupil of Gleyre
and of the École des Beaux Arts. Gold
medal, Berlin, 1857. Works: Chamois
Hunters at Early Morn (1853), Dying Husband
(1853), Berne Museum; Cows at
Drinking Place, Descent of Cattle in Summer
(1863); Chamois Hunters, Cows in
Pasture (1865); Bergamo Shepherds, Souvenir
de Clarens (1866); Negress carrying
Fruit and Basket (1866), Berne Museum;
David Victor over Goliath, Pasture on Road
to the Faulhorn (1858), Col de la Bernina
with Herds (1864), Place de Capri (1868),
Old Fir Trees in Jura Mountains, Neuchâtel
Museum; Allegory of the Jungfrau (1883).—Bellier,
ii. 81; D. Kunstbl. (1854), 462;
(1856), 364; (1857), 105; Kunst-Chronik,
xix. 233.
MEURON, MAXIMILIEN DE, born at
Neuchâtel in 1785, died in 1868. Landscape
painter of considerable fame in his
own country, from which he usually drew
his subjects. Works: View in Ancient
Rome (Baths of Caracalla), View in Modern
Rome (1816), Lake of Wallenstadt (1846),
The Great Oak, Bridge of Corchiano, Valley
of Naefels, Camp of Valangin in 1831,
The Great Eiger seen from the Wegern
Alp, Neuchâtel Museum.
MEYER VON BREMEN. See Meyer,
Johann Georg.
MEYER, DIETHELM, born at Baden,
Aargau, Jan. 28, 1840, died in Munich, Oct.
13, 1884. Genre painter, pupil of Paul
Deschwanden at Stanz, then of Anschütz at
the Munich Academy, and of Cabanel and
Breton in Paris; settled in Munich in
1869; spent his summers in his fatherland,
where he painted Swiss Alpine life, such as
mountain festivals and hunting episodes,
which made him popular throughout Germany.
Works: Woman returning from
Harvest, Woman and Two Children on a
Mule, Basle Museum; Young Girl of Simmenthal
(1878), Berne Museum.—Academy,
Nov. 8, 1884; Tscharner, D. bild. K. in d.
Schweiz im Jahre 1884, 57.
MEYER, EDGAR, born in Tyrol; contemporary.
Landscape painter, pupil of
Düsseldorf Academy. Works: Sixty architectural
and landscape views in Italy and
Tyrol (1878); San Remo (1883); Schwarzenstein
Lake, Innsbruck Museum; Storm Landscape,
National Gallery, Berlin; Graveyard in
South Tyrol, View in Mola di Gaeta (1884).—Müller,
368; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 184.
MEYER, ERNST, born at Altona, May
11, 1797, died in Rome, Feb. 1, 1861.
Genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy,
and in Munich of Cornelius; spent
some time at Naples and Amalfi, and in
1833 settled in Rome; travelled over nearly
the whole of Europe in 1844, and visited
Paris and Switzerland in 1848-51. Member
of Copenhagen Academy in 1843; Order
of Dannebrog. Works: Two scenes
from Roman Street Life; Interior of Fisherman's
Hut near Naples; House in Tivoli
(Villa Rosenstein, near Stuttgart); Lazzaroni
Family (1831), National Gallery, Berlin;
Public Letter-Writer (1833), Neapolitan
Fisherman's Family, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Old Fisherman looking after the
Wind, Boy taken to Monastery by his Parents,
The Two Friends, Little Girl by a
Spring, Boy presented to Parson (1846),
Gallery, Copenhagen; several in Thorwaldsen
Museum, ib.; Italian Women singing,
Old Franciscan Monk receiving Letter from
a Peasant, Harrach Gallery, Vienna.—Allgem.
Zeitg. (1861), 58; Cotta's Kunstbl.
(1835), 18; (1844), 21; Jordan, 198; Weilbach,
480.
