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MACHOLD many altarpieces for country churches in ' Bohemia. Works : Portrait of King Wen- ceslaus II., Gallery, Prague ; Portraits of Archbishops Chlumczansky and Kolowrat, Karolinum, ib. ; Several other Archbish- ops, Archiepiscopal Palace, ib. ; Professors Kroinbholz and Johann Fischer, Slavophiles Jungmaim and Schafarschik, etc. Allgem. d. Biogr., xx. 5 ; Wurzbach, xvi. 202. MACHOLD, JOSEF, born at Benisch, Silesia, Dec. 24, 1821 History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, but mostly self- taught ; spent three years in Munich, be- friended and influenced by Julius Sclmorr, whom he followed to Dresden ; entered the army in 1848, fought in twelve battles and skirmishes during the campaign in Hun- gary, and in 1857 became professor at the military academy in Wiener - Neustadt. Works : Roland Cycle (13 water-colours after Uhland's ballad) ; Singing and Song (6) ; Three Paintings after Polish Epic Ma- rya ; Harold (after Uhland's Poem, 1860) ; Scenes from Myths of Bacchu s, Ceres, and Ve- nus; Scene from Midsummer-Night's Dream (1867). Miiller, 340; Wurzbach, xvi. 200. MACIP, VICENTE JUAN. See Joan,*. McLACHLAN, T. HOPE, born in Eng- land ; contemporary. Landscape painter ; exhibits at the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. Works : Head of Tees- dale, Scene from " Ancient Mariner " (1881); Wilderness of the Dead Sea (1882) ; In the Border Country (1883) ; On Bowes Moor Teesdale (1884); Barden Beck, When Leaves fall in Russet Woods, Nightfall (1885). MACLISE, DANIEL, born at Cork, Jan. 25, 1811 (Feb. 2, 1800 ?), died at Chelsea, April 25, 1870. History painter, student of the Cork Society of Arts, and of the Roy- al Academy, London, where he won the gold medal in 1831 for the best historical com- position, the Choice of Hercules ; became an A.R.A. in 1835, and R.A. in 1840. He painted a few excellent portraits, among them Charles Dickens (1839), but his chief works are subject and historical pictures. The later years of his life were much en- grossed by his compositions for the dec- oration of the Houses of Parliament, espe- cially by his two largo water-glass paintings Meeting of Welling- ton and Bliicher after Waterloo (46 ft. long), and Death of Nelson (1850-04). He exe- cuted also a series of designs The Story of the Norman Conquest for the Art Union, and many book illustrations. Works : Puck disenchanting Bottom (1832) ; All-Hallow Eve (1833); Installation of Captain Rock (1834); Chivalric Vow of Ladies and Peacock (1835); Macbeth and the Witches (1830) ; Olivia and Sophia fitting out Moses for the Fair (1838) ; Banquet Scene in Jfa<-Mh (1840) ; Malvolio and the Countess (1840), Play Scene in JfnmM. (1842), National Gallery ; Ordeal by Touch (1840) ; Gross of Green Spectacles (1850); Caxton showing his Print- ing-Press to Edward IV. (1851) ; Marriage of Strongbow and Eva (1854), National Gal- lery, Dublin ; Origin of the Harp, Alan Pot- ter, Esq. ; Scene from Midas, The Queen. In fresco : Spirit of Justice, Spirit of Chiv- alry (1850), House of Lords; Marriage of Strongbow and Eva, Alfred in the Danish Camp, Royal Gallery, Parliament House ; Comus, pavilion of Buckingham Palace. O'Driscoll, Memoir (1871) ; Redgrave ; Ott- ley ; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Sandby, ii. 161. MAcNEE, Sir DANIEL, born at Fintry, Stirlingshire, Juno 4, 1800, died in Edinburgh, Jan. 17, 1882. Portrait painter, pupil of the Trustees Academy, Edinburgh, under Sir William Allan. Noted as a portrait A r^i^*)' painter, and had many distinguished sitters, among whom were Lord Brougham, Viscount Melville, 181