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French Coast, Schwerin Gallery; Port of Honfleur (1853); Views of Trouville (1855, 1857, 1859, 1861).—Bellier, ii. 13; Larousse.


MÜCKE, HEINRICH, born in Breslau, April 9, 1806. History painter, pupil of Berlin and Düsseldorf Academies under Schadow; visited Italy in 1833-34, England in 1850, and Switzerland repeatedly. Professor at Düsseldorf Academy since 1848. Medal, Besançon; Portuguese medal for Art and Science. Works: St. Catharine carried by Angels to Mt. Sinai (1836), St. Elizabeth giving Alms (1841), National Gallery, Berlin; St. Ambrose and Emperor Theodosius (1838); St. Elizabeth taking Farewell of her Husband (1841); Storming of Jerusalem (1844); Dante in Verona (1846); Coronation of Virgin (1847); St. Adalbert (1851); Cycle from Life of St. Meinrad; Good Shepherd; Christ Crucified; Cleopatra Dying (1873); Male Portrait (1861), Düsseldorf Gallery. Frescos: Scenes from Life of Barbarossa (1829-38), Castle Heltorf near Düsseldorf; Madonna and Saints (1835), St. Andrew's, Düsseldorf; Introduction of Christianity in Wupper Valley (1842), City Hall, Elberfeld; Histories and Legends of the Rhine. His son Karl has of late acquired reputation as a genre painter. Works: Little Brother; Sunday Afternoon; Mother's Joy; Paternal Joys; Mending Nets on Coast of Holland.—Brockhaus, xi. 904; Illustr. Zeitg., April 4, 1857; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 502; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 75; Jordan (1885), ii. 156; Müller, 381; Wiegmann, 118.


MUDO, EL. See Navarrete, Juan Fernandez.


MÜELICH. See Mielich.


MÜHLIG, MENO, born at Eibenstock, Saxony, April 8, 1823, died in Dresden, June 8, 1873. Genre painter, pupil of Julius Hübner. Works: Interrupted Pilgrimage, Dresden Gallery; Coal Venders, Mrs. D. D. Colton, San Francisco.—Dioskuren (1873), 205.


MUHR, JULIUS, born at Pless, Silesia, June 21, 1819, died in Munich, Feb. 9, 1865. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin and of Munich Academy under Cornelius. In 1847-53 he assisted Kaulbach in some of the wall paintings in Berlin. Works: Benedictine Monk with Folio Volume (1856), National Gallery, Berlin; Portrait of Overbeck (1858), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Siesta of the Monks, Emperor of Austria; Gypsy Family; Musical Monk; Banquet of Queen Joanna (1860); Job comforted by his Friends (1861); Pifferari; Schleswig-Holstein; Puszta with Gypsies; Portraits of Overbeck, Mons. Lichnowsky, Princess Poli, Louis II. of Bavaria; Allegories of Morning and Evening.—Allgem. d. Biog. xxii. 484; Dioskuren, 1865; Kunstblatt (1857), 281; Regnet, ii. 52.


MUHRMAN, HENRY, born in Ohio, Jan. 21, 1854. Genre painter; studied in Cincinnati and at the Munich Academy. Studio in London (1884). Works: Smoker, At Weilheim—Bavaria (1879); Confessional in Church at Ettal—Bavaria, Woodchopper's Home at South Cove—N. Y. (1880). Water-*colour: Milking Time in Bavarian Stable (1879), T. B. Clarke, New York.—Am. Art Rev. (1881), 48.


MULATO DE MURILLO. See Gomez, Sebastian.


MULIERIBUS, DE. See Molyn, Pieter, the younger.


MÜLLER, ADAM AUGUST, born in Copenhagen, Aug. 16, 1811, died there, March 15, 1844. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Eckersberg; won four prizes at Copenhagen Academy; studied in Italy in 1839-41. Works: Aladdin seeing Gulnare (1829); Aladdin reaching after Pomegranates (1831); Christian IV. playing with his Son (1833); Wounded Herluf Trolle received by his Wife and the Scholars of Herlufsholm, Christ preaching in the Boat (1834); Valdemar Seyr in Prison, Ulysses and Nausicaä (1835); Christ at Gethsemane (1836); David playing before Saul (1837); Hans Tausen preaching at Viborg, Hans Tausen protect-