dated 1725); Uffizi, Florence (2); Historical Society, New York (2).—Immerzeel, ii. 243; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 545; Kramm, iv. 1171; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise.
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MOUCHOT, LOUIS, born in Paris, Aug. 25, 1830. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Drölling and Belloc; paints Egyptian subjects with skill and truth to nature. Medals: 1865, 1867, 1868; L. of Honour, 1872. Works: Carpet Bazaar in Cairo (1866), Rennes Museum; Monkey-Dealer in Cairo, Fellah Women (1868); Evening Prayer, Venice (1874); Shop in Cairo (1875); The Shadoof (system of irrigation) in Upper Egypt (1875), Luxembourg Museum; Ducal Palace in Venice, Grand Canal (1876); Dahabieh on the Nile (1877); Grand Canal, Street in Cairo (1878); John Baptist preaching (1879); Venus (1880); View of Venice (1881); Nile near Cairo, Street in Venice (1882); Minieh on the Nile (1883); Fleur de mer (1885); Monkey Tamer, R. L. Cutting, New York; Sortie of the Grand Council, W. Bement, Philadelphia.—Bellier, ii. 134; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 328.
MOULLION, ALFRED, born in Paris in
1832, died there, June 14, 1886. Landscape
painter, pupil of Delestre. Medal, 3d class,
1880. Works: The First at the Meeting
(1870); Moonrise at Ermenonville (1874);
Partridge Family (1875); Village in the
Morning, View in Forest of Fontainebleau
(1878); Stag Pond, La Gaule-aux-Fées, Brittany
(1879); Mower, Apple-Tree in May
(1880); Bay in Autumn Morning, Spring
Tide (1881); Saint-Malo, Cape in Brittany
(1882); Hiding Place, Bridge of Sèvres
(1883); Plain of Saint-Suliac, Autumn Evening
(1884); Fisherman at Dawn, Forest in
Autumn (1885); Bathing, Forest in Autumn
(1886).
MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY, born at
Setauket, L. I., Nov. 26, 1807, died in New
York, Nov. 19, 1868. Genre painter, pupil
of National Academy. Practised his profession
in New York, 1829-68; elected N.A.
in 1832. First exhibited picture, Daughter
of Jairus. Works: Long Story (1837), Corcoran
Gallery, Washington; Turning the
Grindstone; Farmers' Nooning, J. Sturges,
New York; Turn of the Leaf, James Lenox
Collection, ib.; Fortune-Teller, Bargaining
for a Horse, Portrait of James Rivington,
Historical Society, ib.; Raffling for a Goose,
Mrs. M. O. Roberts, ib.; Axe to Grind, T.
B. Clarke, ib.; Horse Trade, R. L. Stuart,
ib.; Power of Music, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn;
Dawn of Day, Portrait of a Lady (1868).—Tuckerman,
420.
MOUTTE, ALPHONSE, born at Marseilles;
contemporary. Landscape and genre
painter, pupil of Meissonier. Works: All
is over!; Souvenir of Poissy (1874), Sunday
Evening (1875); Peeling of Oak-Trees in
Provence (1876); Unloading of Grain at
Marseilles (1877), Marseilles Museum; Maldormé
Creek near Marseilles (1878); Catalonian
Fishermen (1879); Cast-net (1880);
Last Sowings of Spring, Corner of the Prado
Region (1881); Fishermen's Breakfast (1882);
Pond of Marignane in Provence (1884);
Women of Arles, Interior of Fisherman's Hut
(1885); In the Sun (1886).—Bellier, ii. 138.
MOYA, PEDRO DE, born in Granada in
1610, died there in 1666. Spanish school;
pupil of Juan de Castillo; love of adventure
made him a soldier in the army of Flanders,
when he was so charmed with the works of
Van Dyck that he went to London in 1641
to study under him. Van Dyck died soon
after, and Moya returned home and executed
meritorious works, the best of which
are in Granada. Works: Scenes in Life of
Joseph (6), Madrid Museum; Gypsy telling
Cavalier his Fortune, Card-Players and
Lovers, Old Pinakothek, Munich; A Saint
(or female portrait?), Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Male portrait, Czernin Gallery, Vienna;
Portrait of himself, National Gallery,
Pesth.—Stirling, ii. 818; Viardot, 109; Ch.
Blanc, École espagnole.
