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MARKELBACI1 MARKELBACH, ALEXANDRE, born at Antwerp, Aug. 7, 1824. History painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Wappers, then studied in Munich under Kaulbach, visited Italy and France, and lives in Brus- sels. Member of Antwerp and Amsterdam Academies. Order of Leopold. Works : Rhetoricians of Antwerp in 17th Century, Brussels Museum ; Evening in the Convent (1850), Kunstlmlle, Hamburg ; Death Scene, Leipsic Museum ; Flemish Guild in 17th Century. Miillcr, 1354. MARKET ('ART, Thomas Gainsborough, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 6 ft. x 5 ft. A horse with loaded cart passing a shaded pool on the road ; two girls on the cart, and two boys and a dog walking be- side it ; in foreground, left, two other fig- ures and a dog ; at right, a boy gathering fagots. Purchased at Lord Gwydyr's sale (1828) for 1,102 10s. Similar composition possessed by Lord Northwick. Engraved by E. Goodall ; and in Jones's National Gallery. Cat. Nat. Gal.; Eng. Painters of Georgian Era, 12 ; Fulcher, 200. MARK 6, KARL, the elder, born at Lout- schau, Hungary, in 1790, died at Villa Apeggi, near Antella, Tuscany, Nov. 20, 18(i(). Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy (1822-24),tben lived at Eisenstadt until 18150, when he returned to Vienna, and in 1834- 38 studied in Rome, where he rapidly devel- oped in the manner of Poussin ; lived after- wards in Pisa and Florence, enjoying the friendship of Grand Duke Leopold H., and finally settled at Villa Apeggi, offered him as a home by Count Gherardesca ; member of Florence, Venice, Vienna, and Rio Ja- neiro Academies. Works : Ideal Landscape with Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta (1837), Christ in the Storm, Vienna Museum ; View near Tivoli, Abraham and the Angel, Blind Tobias, Diana and Nymphs ; View in the Campagna, Baptism of Christ, Expulsion of Hagar, Jacob and Laban, Diana and Cal- listo, Ino and Melicertes, Hungarian Puszta, and many others, National Museum, Pesth. His sons, Karl, Franz, and Andreas, have also won reputation, the former two in their father's branch, the latter as animal painter. Allgem. d. B., xx. 387 ; Raczyuski, iii. 331 ; Reber, ii. 274 ; Wurzbach, xvi. 459 ; Zeit- schr. f. b. K, viii. 45, 10G, 140. MARKS, HENRY STACY, born in Lon- don, Sept. 13, 1829. Genre painter, stu- dent in schools of Royal Academy in 1851, and of Picot in Paris in 1853 ; elected an A.R.A. in 1871, and R.A. in 1878. Works: Christopher Sly, Bardolph (1854); Slender's Courtship (1855) ; Toothache in Middle Ages (1856) ; Dogberry's Charge to the Watch (1859); Sexton's Sermon (18GO); Franciscan Sculptor (1801) ; How Shake- speare Studied (18(J3) ; Doctors Differ (18G4) ; Falstaff s Own (18G7) ; Experimen- tal Gunnery in Middle Ages (18G8) ; St. Francis preaching to the Birds, Princess and Pelicans (1870) ; Bookworm (1871) ; Ornithologist (1873) ; Capital and Labour (1874); Jolly Post-Boys (1875); Apothecary (1876) ; Bit of Blue, Spider and the Fly (1877) ; Convocation (1878) ; Intellect and Instinct, Old Friends (1879) ; Episcopal Visitation, Author and Critics (1881); Lord Say before Jack Cade (1882) ; Professor (1883) ; Foolish Justices, Entomologist (1884) ; Good Story, Treatise on Parrots (1885), Delicate Question, Plain Case (188G). Meynell, 59 ; Portfolio (1870), 129. MARNE, JEAN LOUIS DE, called De- marnette, born in Brussels, baptized Jan. 22, 1754, died at Batignolles, Paris, March 24, 1829. Genre and landscape painter, pupil in Paris of Gabriel Briard (1725-77). He conceived a great liking for Dutch masters, 202