Nymph; Maximilian I. (dining-room, Imperial Palace, Vienna).—Müller, 372.
MINOR, ROBERT C., born in New York
in 1840. Landscape painter, pupil of Diaz
in Paris and of Van Luppen and Boulanger
in Antwerp. Sketched in Germany and
Italy. Exhibits at the National Academy.
Member of Society of American Artists.
Studio in New York. Works: Dawn; Studio
of Corot; Landscape, T. B. Clarke, New
York; Sundown; Stream (1879); October
Days, Evening (1880); Evening Star (1881);
Vale of Kennet, Edge of the Wood (1882);
Interior of the Forest, Morning in June
(1883); Evening, Twilight, Wold of Kent—England
(1884); Twilight, Cradle of the
Hudson, Sunrise on Lake Champlain (1885);
Autumn Morning, Evening after Rain, Close
of Day (1886).
MINOTAUR, WRECK OF THE, Joseph
M. W. Turner, Earl of Yarborough; canvas.
The Minotaur, a 74-gun ship, with
600 men on board, was wrecked on the
Haaks Bank, Dutch coast, Dec. 22, 1810;
only 110 persons saved, landed on the Texel
and made prisoners. The ship lies on her
side, with only the stumps of her masts
standing; enormous waves dash against her
from behind, and the foreground is filled
with wreckage, to which many of the crew
are clinging; several Dutch craft are trying
to rescue the survivors. One of Turner's
masterpieces. Painted in 1811 for first
Lord Yarborough. Engraved by T. O. Barlow.—Athen.,
Jan., 1875; Waagen, Art
Treasures, iv. 70.
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MINTROP, THEODOR, born at Barkenhofen,
near Werden
on the Ruhr, Rhenish-Prussia,
April 7, 1814,
died in Düsseldorf,
June 30, 1870. History
and genre painter,
son of a peasant,
at first self-taught,
then, brought to Düsseldorf
by Eduard
Geselschap, pupil of the Academy under
Karl Sohn, where his unusual talent was
rapidly developed and widely noticed after
the exhibition of his first pictures. Works:
Madonna with St. John (1852), Düsseldorf
Gallery; Madonna with SS. Ludgerius and
Benedict (1856-59); Maywine Bowl (1869),
Cologne Museum. In fresco: Frieze with
the Seasons; Four Elements; Trade and
Industry; Four Species of Music; Scenes
from Life of Apollo; Triumph of Aurora.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xxi. 771; Art Journal
(1870), 308; Blanckarts, 36; Illustr. Zeitg.
(1871), i. 291; (1874), ii. 494; (1875), i. 227;
Kunst-Chronik, i. 136; v. 160; ix. 459;
Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 56; Zeitschr.
f. b. K., vi. 104; x. 128.
MIRACLE OF THE CROSS. See Cross.
MIRACLE OF THE CURE, Gentile Bellini,
Venice Academy; canvas, H. 10 ft. × (?);
signed. Pietro di Lodovico kneeling before
an altar in an octagon shrine in a choir to
be cured by the relic of the cross, which is
presented by a brother; groups of spectators
in front. Painted about 1494 for the
Scuola of S. Giovanni Evangelista. Much
injured by repainting.—C. & C., N. Italy, i.
129; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 82.
MIRACLE OF LOAVES AND FISHES,
Murillo, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville;
canvas, H. 11 ft. 6 in. × 18 ft. Christ, seated
on a rock in a hilly landscape, with a
loaf in his hands, is surrounded by the Disciples,
one of whom lays four loaves in the
Saviour's lap; a boy approaches with two
fishes in a basket; the multitude seated on
the right. Painted in 1670-74 for the hospital;
companion to Moses striking the Rock.
Engraved by J. G. Levasseur; Boilly.—Curtis,
191; C. Bermudez, Carta, 74; Stirling,
ii. 852.
By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. Christ, the Disciples, and the crowd of seven thousand poorly represented by twenty-one figures; the landscape, the slope of a woody hill, is grand.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 339.
MIRACLE OF THE SLAVE. See Mark,
St., Miracle of.
