- ington; King Lear, One Moment Alone
(1875); Death of a Gitano (1876); Mater Dolorosa (1877); Give us Barabbas (1878); Mother and Child, J. J. Astor, New York; Galileo before Cardinal Barberini, C. S. Smith, New York; Holy Family, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; do., and May Dance, D. W. Powers, Rochester, N. Y.; Pride of Desert, W. Mason, Taunton, Mass.; Purity, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Bellier, ii. 141; Larousse; Jarves, Art Thoughts.
MÜLLER, FRANZ, born in Düsseldorf
in 1843. History painter, son of Andreas
(of Cassel), pupil of Düsseldorf Academy
under Bendemann and Deger, and in 1871-72
of Antwerp Academy. Works: St. John
the Baptist; Christ; Madonna at Kevelaer;
Holy Family; Pietà (several); Frescos in
the Kunstsaal of Castle Sigmaringen, with
his father.—Müller, 383.
MÜLLER, FRIEDRICH, called Maler
Müller, also Teufelsmüller, born at Kreuznach,
Jan. 13, 1749, died in Rome, April 23,
1825. History and genre painter, studied
in Mannheim; went in 1778 to Rome, where
he took Michelangelo for his model, and
chose subjects in which devils played the
principal part, hence his nickname. He
was a severe, sometimes unjust art-critic.
Works: Cupid with Doves in a Rose Bower;
Ulysses summoning the Spirit of Ajax.—Allgem.
d. Biog., xxii. 530; Gœthe, Winckelmann,
ii. 128; Hagen, i. 162; Meusel, ii. 69;
N. Necrol. d. D. (1835), No. 147.
MÜLLER, GUSTAV (ADOLF), born at
Hildburghausen, Aug. 9, 1828. Portrait
and genre painter, twin brother of the
sculptor Johannes Eduard Müller, pupil of
Munich and Antwerp Academies, at the latter
under Wappers; in 1850 studied in
Paris under Gleyre, then painted portraits
in Coburg, Gotha, and Vienna; called in
1857 to Portugal, where he became court-*painter.
After painting in London in 1857-59,
he settled with his brother in Rome,
and is member of and professor at the Accademia
di S. Luca. Works: Savoyard Boy
Asleep, Gotha Museum; Peasant Girl with
Grapes; Boy with Fruit; Woman carrying
Child to Foundling Asylum; Reminiscence
of Villa Borghese; Hunting Life in the
Campagna; Egyptian Woman; Girl of Corleone;
Happy Nurse; Girl of Procida; Jupiter
as Faun surprising Antiope, Mrs. J.
Harrison, Philadelphia.—Meyer, Conv. Lex.,
xviii. 656; Müller, 383; Zeitschr. f. b. K.,
vi. 106; viii. 125.
MÜLLER, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at
Geratsried, Bavaria, in 1809, died in Munich,
June 27, 1869. History painter, pupil
of Munich Academy under Conrad Eberhard
and Heinrich Hess, whom he assisted
with the frescos in All Saints Chapel, and
in decorating the Basilica, having meanwhile
(1837) painted with Führich the 14 stations
on the Laurentiusberg near Prague. Works:
Jeremiah on Ruins of Jerusalem; Madonna;
Cycle in fresco at Kösching near Ingolstadt
(1855-56).—Allgem d. Biog., xxii. 631; Allgem.
Zeitg. (1869); Europa (1869), 441.
MÜLLER, JOHANN JAKOB, born at
Riga in 1765, died at Stuttgart in 1831.
Landscape painter, pupil in Dresden of
Klengel; then studied in Rome after Claude
Lorrain; visited Italy a second time in 1817
and settled in Stuttgart, where he was made
court-painter. Works: Several Views of
Pompeii; View from Monte Cavo near
Rome; View from Mons Albanus in Ancient
Latium; Reichenbach; View near Salerno,
Stuttgart Museum.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1834),
266; (1839), 321.
MÜLLER, KARL, born in Darmstadt in
1818. History painter, younger son of and
first instructed by Franz Hubert Müller,
then pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under
Karl Sohn and Schadow; went to Italy in
1839, and after his return in 1843 painted
some of the frescos in the Apollinaris Church
at Remagen. Professor at Düsseldorf Academy.
Works: Visitation (1837); Tobias and
the Angel (1838); Caritas, Marriage of the
Virgin (1839); Maria Regina; Holy Family;
Annunciation (1852); replica, enlarged, Düsseldorf
Gallery; Madonna; Disciples at Emmaus;
Last Supper; Vision of St. Hedwig;
