MAYEK The Reading (1868); Louis XIV. at Marly, Portrait of Anson Burlingame (1869); Lady Jane Grey going to Execution, Toilet, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia ; Arviragus bearing the Body of Imogen Scene from Cymbeliue (1870); Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre (1873), New York Museum ; Sou- venir de la Commune, Fin de la Lecture (1874) ; Dispute, R. L. Stuart Collection, New York ; Alsatian Woman, May and De- cember (1876) ; Antonia (1877) ; Teresina (1878); Study of a Girl's Head (1882) ; Pur- sued, Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre (1884). Tuckermau, 501. MAYER, ANTON, born in Vienna in 1843. History painter, son of, and first in- structed by, the engraver, Christian Mayer, then pupil of Vienna Academy under Rahl and Fiihrich. Works: Prometheus (1867); Cycle from Hermann and Dorothea, Four Temperaments, Four Seasons, Six Muses, H. lleichel, Vienna ; Judgment of Brutus ; Annunciation ; Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, Baron Rothschild, Vienna. Miiller, 359 ; Wurzbach, xviii. 82. MAYER, CONSTANT, born at Besanron, France, Oct. 4, 1832. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of the Ecolc des Beaux Arts, and of Leon Coguiet in Paris. Settled in 1857 in New York, where he still resides. L. of Honour, 18(59. Works : Consolation (1864) ; Love's Melancholy ; Maud Muller (1867); Episode in Campaign of 1863 (1869) ; Street Melodies (George King, New York) ; Oracle of the Field (M. de Lizardi, New Orleans) ; Song of the Shirt (1875) ; Song of the Twilight (1879) ; In the Woods (1880) ; Vagabonds (1881) ; Good News (1882) ; Lord's Day, Lawn Tennis (1883) ; Mandolin Player (1884) ; First Grief (1885). Portraits : General Grant ; General Sher- man ; Mme. de Lizardi, Lady of Honour to the ex-Empi-ess Charlotte, and others. MAYER, ETIENNE FRANCOIS AU- GUSTE, born at Brest (Finistere), July 3, 1805. Marine, genre, and portrait painter. Medals : 3d class, 1836 ; L. of Honour, 1839 ; Officer, 1867. Works : Harbour of Brest in 1698 (1835) ; Battle of the Bucen- taur, Battle of the Pluto (1836) ; Corvette Recherche in the Ice, Egyptian Frigate (1837) ; Burning of the Devonshire by Du- guay-Trouiii (1838) ; North Cape, Norwe- gian Views (1839) ; Breton Cemetery (1841); Capture of Episcopia (1841), Versailles Mu- seum ; French Fleet forcing Entrance into the Tajo in 1831 (1841), Dijon Museum ; View of Chcsrne Asia Minor (1844), Bor- deaux Museum ; Wreck of the Algesiras ; Exchange in Copenhagen ; Harbour of Con- quet ; Man Overboard, Evening of a Battle (1852) ; Burning of Hamburg Exchange in 1842 (1857) ; Frigate Hcrminie rounding j Cape Horn, Bay of Trc'passes, lie de Groix (1861) ; Fishing for Sea- Wrack ; Lighthouse of Peninsula of Kermorvan (18G3) ; Donjon of Castle of Brest, Embarking on School- Ship Borda (1864) ; Bay of Peu-Hir, Rescue on the Breton Coast (1865) ; Old Harbour of Porstein (18(59). Bellier, ii. (51. MAYER, FRANK B., born in Baltimore, Md., in 1827. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Alfred Miller in Baltimore, and of Gleyro and Brion in Paris. Travelled and sketched in Europe and the United States, and in 1851 made some valuable studies among the Dacotah Indians of Minnesota. Painted in Paris in 1864-69. Studio in An- napolis. Works : Indian Thanksgiving ; Attic Philosopher ; Marine ; Waiting Or- ders (J. W. McCoy, Baltimore) ; Maryland in 1750 (Peabody lust., ib.); Nineteenth Century (Parke Godwin, New York) ; King's Jester ; Cavalier ; Tailor in 1500 (W. H. Herriman, Rome) ; Continentals (1876), G. B. Coale, Baltimore ; Trappist (1880). MAYER, FRIEDRICH, born in Munich, May 5, 1825, died there, Dec. 26, 1875. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Acad- emy. Works : The Old Woldergarten in Munich (1861), St. Nicholas Hospital, ib. (1862), Castle at Neuberghausen (1863), New Piuakothek, Munich ; Morning in Up- per Inn Valley ; Faltschauer Falls in South Tyrol (1868); View in Etsch Valley ; Win- ter in Tyrol ; Moonrise on Chiem Lake
