from Reynolds. In 1763 gained first premium from Society of Arts, and in 1764, in competition with Romney, the award of 100 guineas for his St. Paul preaching to the Britons, now the altarpiece of the church at High Wycombe. Was a member of the Society of Artists, and its vice-president in 1773; but fell into dissipated habits and neglected art. Created R. A. in 1779, by special grant from the king, but did not live to receive his diploma. Better known by his drawings than his pictures. Left many etchings. Works: King John granting Magna Charta; Vortigern and Rowena; St. Paul preaching to the Britons; Battle of Agincourt; Progress of Vice; Progress of Virtue; Portrait of himself, National Portrait Gallery.—Redgrave; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; F. de Conches, 301.
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MORTO DA FELTRE, of Feltre, born
at Feltre in
1474, killed
in battle of
Zara, 1519,
according to
Vasari,
though a fresco
of 1522 has
been ascribed
to him. Venetian
school;
supposed identical with Pietro Luzzi, son of
Bartolommeo, who was appointed surgeon
to city of Zara, in 1476, and died there in
1530. Pietro or Morto, who, from his
father's residence in Zara is sometimes called
Zarato or Zarotto, went in 1495 to Rome, in
1506 to Florence, and in 1508 to Venice,
where, according to Ridolfi, he became the
disciple of Giorgione, whose mistress he seduced,
and whose death he caused (1511)
from grief. He afterwards settled at Feltre.
But few of his works remain. He is
at his best in the altarpiece in the church at
Villabruna.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 219; Vasari,
ed. Le Mon., ix. 106; vii. 87; Burckhardt,
728; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii.
606.
MOSCHELES, FELIX, born in London
in 1833. Figure and portrait painter, son
of the eminent composer, Ignaz Moscheles;
studied in Paris and under Van Lerius in
Antwerp. Studio in London; exhibits at
Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery.
Visited New York in 1883 and 1884.
Works: Grief, Spanish Boy (1878); Spanish
Song (1879); Basket-Making in Granada;
Little Mozart's Own Choir; Daughter
of Herodias (1882); Zuppa al fresco—Bordighera
(1883); Portraits of Mazzini,
Gounod, Rubinstein, Robert Browning,
Henry M. Stanley, President Cleveland.
MOSCHER, JACOB VAN, flourished in
1613-50. Dutch school; landscape painter,
mentioned as master of the guild at
Delft in 1613-14, worked at Haarlem in
1640-50, where Adriaan van Ostade painted
the figures in his pictures. Works: Field
Path along Low Hill, Lowland Village, Old
Pinakothek, Munich.
MOSENGEL, ADOLF, born in Hamburg,
Jan. 1, 1837, died there, June 12, 1885.
Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy; studied in Paris, and in Geneva
in 1861 under Calame. Works: Alp Arpitetta
in Val d'Anniviers; Westphalian Landscape;
The Mowers; Sunshine before Rain;
Alpine Scene.—Müller, 379.
MOSER, LUCAS, 15th century, born at
Weil, Suabia. German school; known by
an altarpiece in church at Tiefenbronn, between
Calw and Pforzheim, which contains
carefully modelled and pleasing heads painted
in warm colour. The hands and feet are
strikingly true to nature. In the Carlsruhe
Gallery are five wings of an altarpiece painted
in the style of this master.—Allgem.
d. Biog., xxii. 383; Kugler (Crowe), i. 129;
Schnaase, vi. 469; W. & W., ii. 92.
MOSES AND BURNING BUSH, Raphael,
Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican; fresco on
ceiling. Moses, as a shepherd, with his face
hidden in his hands, kneeling before the
burning bush, from which the Lord is issuing,
attended by angels and seraphim. In
this work the grandeur of Michelangelo is
