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MACRBSTO Marquis of Lome, Dnlco of Bucclcugh, Hugh Blair, and Norman McLeod. He was a mem- ber of the Royal Scottish Academy, of which he was elected president in 1870, and he was knighted by the Queen the same year. Acad- emy (1882), i. 71 ; Athenaaim (1882), i. 132. MACBINO D'ALBA, born at Alba, died before 1528. Real name Giovanni Jacopo (Giangiacomo) Fava ; also called de Alladio. Piedmontese school, history painter ; prob- ably studied in Milan, flourished about 1500 and -worked at Alba, Asti, and Turin. An ex- cellent painter, of great expressiveness in his countenances, brilliant colouring, masterly treatment of details, tine feeling for chiaro- scuro, and solid impasto ; the first Pied- montese artist who made advances towards the realistic style of the Paduaus. Works : Altai-piece in six panels with Madonna En- throned (149(i), Certosa, Pavia ; Madonna with Saints and Angels (1498), Altar "Viug with SS. Louis and Paul (150(5), do. with St. John the Baptist, St. Lawrence and St. Rose, Descent from the Cross, Several other Altar Wings with Saints, Gallery, Turin ; St. Agatha, Academy, ib.; Madonna and Saints, Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort. Lanzi (Roscoe), iii. 2!>3 ; Liibke, Gescli. ital. Mai., i. 502 ; Meyer, Kiinstl. Lex., i. 1(59. McWHIRTKR, JOHN, born at Inglis Green, near Edin- burgh, March 27, 1839. Landscape painter ; pupil of art-school of Board o f Manufacturers, E d i n b u r g h ; has travelled in N o r - way, Belgium, It- aly, the Tyrol, and other countries in search of subjects. Became an A.R.S.A. in 1804, and A.R.A. in 1878 ; has resided in London since 1809. In 1877 he visited the United States, spend- ing considerable time in California, making studies in the Yosemite Valley. Works : Arch of Titus, Campagua (1804) ; Temple of Vesta at Rome (1805) ; Old Edinburgh (1808); Loch Coruisk Isle of Skye (1809) ; Daybreak, Depths of the Forest (1870) ; Isle of Skye (1872) ; Fisherman's Haven (1873) ; Laud of the Mountain and the Flood (1875) ; Lady of the Woods (1870, Taylor sale, 1883, 043) ; Over the Border, Source of a River (1877) ; The Vanguard, Three Graces (1878); Last Days of Autumn, Valley by the Sea (Lee sale, 1879, 1,155), Highland Solitude, Highland Pastoral (1879); June, Lord of the Glen, May (1880) ; Roses and Rabbits, Mountain Tops, Sunday in High- lands, Summer Evening Venice (1881) ; Ossian's Grave, Highland Auction, Rainy Day Venice (1882); Sunset Fires, Nature's Mirror, Highland Harvest (1883) ; Ser- mon by the Sea, Windings of the Forth, Home of the Grizzly Bear, Forest Solitude (1884); Track of a Hurricane (1885); Three Witches (1880). Portfolio (1879), 93 ; Art Journal (1879), 9. MACY, WILLL1M STARBUCK, born in New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 11, 1853. Land- scape painter ; pupil of National Academy. Studied in Munich four years, two of them under Professor Velten. Sketched in Da- kota and Minnesota in 1879. Studios in New Bedford and New York. Works: Lake Starnberg, Early Winter (1877) ; Meadows near Munich, Landscape (1878) ; Early Sum- mer (1879); Bavaria near Tyrol, Forest Scene (1880) ; Edge of the Forest Bavaria (1881); On the Westport River (1882) ; Still Water on the Seine (1883) ; Old Forest in Winter, Early Winter, Winter Sunset (1884) ; Old Mill (1885); January in Bermuda, Somerset Bay, ib. (1880). Sheldon, 204. MADARASZ, VICTOR, born at Fiinf- kirchen, Hungary, about 1828. History painter, pupil in Vienna of Waldmuller ; went in 1857 to Paris, where he met with success. Gold medal, Paris, 1801. Works : Episode in History of Hungary (1855); Clara Zach ; Helen Zrinyi ; Meeting of Zrinyi and Frangepan, Pesth Museum ; Beheading of LadislausHunyadi. Gaz. desB. Arts(1861), xi. 191 ; Wurzbach, xvi. 237. 128