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Ludolf Bakhuysen as Writing Master (1697), Mother's Joy (1708), Game Vender, Male Portrait (?), Schwerin Gallery; Angry Warrior (1683), Temptation (1683), Lady in Satin Dress (1684), Vienna Museum; Poulterer, Baron Rothschild, Vienna; Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Physician attending Young Lady, Man with Globe, Old Soldier Begging, Looking at a Medallion, Abraham casting off Hagar (1724), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Mary Magdalen at the Cross, Uffizi, Florence; Esther before Ahasuerus, Milan Academy; other specimens in Frankfort, Brunswick, and St. Petersburg Galleries.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 716; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Gool, i. 119; Immerzeel, ii. 228; Kellen, i. 17; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 542; Kramm, iv. 1128; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 347.

MIGLIARA, GIOVANNI, born at Alessandria, Piedmont, Oct. 18, 1785, died at Milan, April 18, 1837. Architecture painter, who won reputation for excellent drawing and brilliant light effects; member of Milan, Turin, Naples, Vienna, and other Academies; court-painter to the King of Sardinia. Medal of Honour, Alessandria, 1829. Works: Convent in Renaissance Style (1825), Romeo and Juliet in Lorenzo's Cell (1825), National Gallery, Berlin; Loggia dei Lanzi and Palazzo vecchio at Florence, The Piazetta in Venice, Carlsruhe Gallery; Divine Service in Vaulted Hall, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Interior of Monastery of S. Paolo near Pavia, Madrid Museum; Convent Yard of S. Maurizio—Milan (1824); Monastery of S. Ambrogio—ib., New Pinakothek, Munich; Piazza del Panteon in Rome, Bergamo Gallery; Chapel in a Cemetery, Subterranean Chapel in a Monastery, Milan Academy; View in Venice, Interior of S. Marco, ib., S. Zaccaria, ib.; Certosa of Pavia, Study from Nature, Campo Santo at Pisa, A Fountain, View in Milan, Landscape, Turin Gallery.—Wurzbach, xviii. 250.

MIGLIORI, FRANCESCO, born at Venice in 1684, died there in 1734. Venetian school; history painter, about whose life little is known. He showed early an unusual talent, which was impaired by an attack of temporary insanity. Works: Bacchus and Ariadne, Europa sitting on the Bull, Joseph interpreting Dreams, Abraham's Sacrifice, Lot and his Daughters, Cain and Abel, Cimon nursed by his Daughter Pera, Dresden Museum.

MIGNARD, NICOLAS, born at Troyes, Feb. 7, 1606, died in Paris, March 20, 1668. French school; portrait and allegory painter, studied at first at Troyes, then spent several years at Fontainebleau, where the works of Fréminet, Primaticcio, and Rosso inspired him with the desire to visit Italy. In 1644 he accompanied the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons to Rome, where he remained two years. On his return he went to Avignon, and when that city was visited by Louis XIV. in 1660, painted so good a portrait of the king that he was called to Paris by royal command, and there received all the honours of a great painter. Member of Academy in 1663, professor in 1664, and rector in 1690. Many of his portraits are in private collections. Works: Mars and Venus (1658), Aix Museum; Louis XIV. as a Child, Blois Museum; Portrait of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, Douai Museum; Artist's Portrait, Lyons Museum; Portrait of a Bourbon Princess, do. of a Painter, Musée Rath, Geneva; St. John in the Desert, Portrait of Louis XIV. in his Youth, do. of Duchess Cristina of Savoy, Turin Gallery.—Bellier, ii. 90; Ch. Blanc, École française,