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MACBETH Academy, London. Has painted the por- traits of many distinguished clergymen, among them Drs. Guthrie, Cunningham, Begg, and John Brack. Ideal work : Four- score Years (1885), Thomas Oliver, Bors- ham, Kent. He is the father of Robert Walker Macbeth ; of James Macbeth, laud- scape and portrait painter ; and of H. R. Macbeth, genre and portrait painter, who calls himself, for distinction's sake, H. Mac- betli-Raeburn. Portfolio (1886), 25. MACBETH, ROBERT WALKER, born in Glasgow in 1848. Landscape and genre paint- er, son and pupil of Norman Mac- beth, portrait painter, and stu- dent iu London of Royal Acad- emy ; elected as- sociate of the So- ciety of Painters iu Water Colours in 1871, and A.R.A. in 1883. Is also an etcher of ability. Works : A Lincolnshire Gang (1876); Potato Harvest in the Fens (1877)'; Sedge-Cutting, Early Morning (1S7S) ; Tho Ferry (1881) ; Betrothed, Ferry Inn, Wait- ing (1882); Sacrifice, Betrothed, Tho Signal (1883) ; Feu Farm, Pied Piper of Hamelin (1884); Ripe October (1885); A Sodden Fen (1886). Art Journal (1883), 95. MicCALLUM, ANDREW, born in Not- tingham, England, in 1828. Landscape painter, pupil of the Nottingham School of Art, and in 1849 of the Somerset House School of Design, London. Was a teacher in Manchester in 1851-53, when he went to Italy to select examples of mural paintings for the South Kensington Museu m. Opened a studio iu London in 1858. Works : Ap- proach of Malaria, Ancient Rome (1868) ; Moorland Queen (bought by John Phillip, RA.); Views near Balmoral (painted for the Queen) ; Sultry Eve (1876), Centennial Ex- hibition, Philadelphia ; Glassalt Sheil Glen Muich (1877). MACCARI, CESARE, born in Siena, May 9, 1840. History painter, pupil of Siena Academy, then in Florence of Luigi Mus- sini ; continued his studies in Rome, whence he visited Assisi and Venice, acquired repu- tation especially with fresco paintings exe- cuted by order of Victor Emmanuel in the Chapel del Sudario and in the Quirinal. Gold medals in Siena and Parma, 1809 ; medal in Philadelphia, 1876 ; great prize in Turin, 1880. Professor at Accademia S. Luca in Rome. Member of Rome, Venice, Bologna, and Genoa Academies. Order of Italian Crown. Works : Rebecca and Ele- azer ; Leonardo da Vinci painting Mona Lisa (1865) ; Vittoria Colouna meditating over Michelangelo's Poems (1868) ; Sira sacrificing herself for Fabiola (1869); Fond Memories, Music hath Charms, Descent from Cross (1870-73) ; In the Triclinium, Flower on Raphael's Grave (1879); Deposi- tion of Pope Sylverius (1880) ; Aristocratic Pastime, Two Dandling Venetian Women, Day of First Communion in Venice ; For- tune Teller, Corcoran Gallery, Washington. Frescos: Four Evangelists (1864, Marquis Pieri Nerli's Villa at Quinciano) ; Ceilings in Chapel del Sudario ; Tobias burying the Dead (Chapel at Campo Veramo) ; Triumph of the Three Graces, Quiriual. Meyer, ' Com: Lex., xviii. 621, 629 ; Miiller, 345. MACCHIAVELLI, ZANOBI, flourished in 1474. Florentine school ; called by Va- sari a pupil of Benozzo Gozzoli, but his manner is that of one who also studied in the school of Fra Filippo. His Coronation ' of the Virgin, dated 1473, Louvre, is not one of his best works. Better is the Ma- donna and Saints, signed but undated, Pisa ' Academy. C. & C., Italy, ii. 517 ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 191. McCORD, GEORGE HERBERT, born in New York in 1840. Landscape painter, pupil of Professor Morse. Has made many sketches in New England, Canada, Florida, and the West. Exhibited first at the Na- tional Academy iu 1868. Elected an A.N.A. iu 1880. Studio in New York. Works : 119