MILTON, portrait, Cornelis Janson van Ceulen, Passmore Edwards, M.P., London. Milton at the age of ten years; full face, figure seen to waist, life-size. Long in possession of T. Hollis, who purchased it in 1760; bought by Mr. Stanhope of the poet's widow for 20 guineas, and is probably the one referred to by Aubrey. Sold in 1884, £346 10s. Engraved by Cipriani; Boydell (1794); appears as frontispiece in Masson's Life of Milton.—London Times, May 12, 1884.
MILTON DICTATING PARADISE
LOST, Michael Munkácsy, Lenox Gallery,
New York; canvas. Milton seated at left
beside a table, around which are grouped
his three daughters, one writing, another
embroidering, the third standing; all look
towards their father, as if intent upon his
words. Painted in 1877; medal of honour
at Paris Exhibition, 1878; purchased by
Robert Lenox Kennedy, of New York.
Etched by G. Greux, in Portfolio.—Portfolio
(1880), 109; Am. Art Rev. (1881), ii.
17; Amer. Architect (1879), 195.
MIND, GOTTFRIED, born at Berne in
1768, died there, Nov. 7, 1814; or, according
to Wurzbach, born at Lipcse, Hungary,
in 1768, died at Berne, Nov. 15, 1814. Animal
and genre painter, first instructed by
one Legel, then pupil of Sigmund Freudenberger,
in whose house he thenceforth
remained, faithfully assisting the master.
Mind's specialty was the representation of
cats, in which he had no equal; many of
his pictures became widely known through
lithographs and engravings, and won him
the surname of the Cat Raphael. Among
his genre pictures those of children at play
were the most successful. Works: Various
Animals, Cat with her Young, Landwehrmann
of Berne, Two Poodle Dogs, Basle
Museum; Groups of Cats (3), Berne Museum.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xxi. 765; Wurzbach,
xviii. 339.
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MINDERHOUT, HENDRIK VAN, born
in Rotterdam in 1632, died in Antwerp,
July 22, 1696. Flemish school; marine
painter. Free of guild at Bruges in 1663,
moved to Antwerp in 1672, and forthwith
entered the guild there. Painted harbours
and rivers with vessels very truthfully, but
the numerous figures in his pictures are of
inferior merit. Works: Harbour in the
Levant (1675), Antwerp Museum; do., Rouen
Museum; do., Christiania Gallery; View
of Reservoir at Bruges (1653), Bruges Academy;
Seaport (1673), Dresden Museum;
two River Views with Skippers Feasting,
Madrid Museum; Storm at Sea, Turin Gallery.—Cat.
du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 483;
Kramm, iv. 1134; Van den Branden, 876.
MINERVA or Athena, pictures. See Antiphilus,
Cleanthes, Fabullus.
MINERVA REPELLING MARS, Tintoretto,
Palazzo Ducale, Venice; canvas. Minerva
repels the God of War with her left
hand, and with her right protects Peace and
Abundance, who are seated together. Engraved
by Agos. Carracci.—Bartsch, xviii.
105; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 217.
MINISTER'S GARDEN, Cecil Lawson,
Manchester Gallery; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 7 ft.
4 in. A tribute to the memory of Oliver
Goldsmith; suggested by "The Deserted
Village," though not meant as a portrait of
"Sweet Auburn." Composition made in
and about the hillside that crowns the village
of Sandhurst. The Minister's Garden,
an old-fashioned one, with hollyhocks, roses,
and marigolds, occupies the foreground on
the slope of the hill which fades away into
the distance; at left, under a tree, are bee-*hives;
in the middle distance, a few figures.
Grosvenor Gallery, 1878.—Mag. of Art (1884),
483; Gosse, Cecil Lawson, 20, 25.
MINJON. See Mignon.
MINNIGERODE, LUDWIG, born at
Stryi, Galicia, April 12, 1847. Genre painter,
pupil of Vienna Academy under Eduard
Engerth, settled in Vienna. Medal in Philadelphia,
1876. Works: Tête-à-Tête; Morning
Bath; Studying Monk (1874); Sleeping
