MEIXKER Vernct ; after his return, about 1833, settled in Cologne ; painted especially battles, ani- mals, and equestrian portraits. Works : Scenes from Greek War of Independence ; Death of Adolphus of Nassau ; Kosciusko taken Prisoner ; Napoleon and bis Gene- rals ; Elector Albrecbt Achilles of Bran- denburg in Battle of Nuremberg (School of Cadets, Berlin) ; Bliicber's llescue in Battle of Liguy ; Lion Hunt ; Lions Fighting (1835), Frederic William IV. of Prussia returning from Parade, Cologne Museum ; Panorama of French Army under General Hoche crossing the Rhine (1838-41) ; Dio- rama of Battle of Kuhu ; View of Castle Stolzenfels at Sunset (1843 ; last three to- gether with bis brother Nicolas). Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 263 ; Merlo, Nacbricbten, 280 ; Raczynski, i. 238. MEIXNEK, LUDWIG, born in Munich in 1828. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Bernhard Stauge ; visited Norway and Sweden in 1848-51 ; excels in moon- light scenes. Works : View in English Park near Munich ; VOhring near Munich ; Moonlight Landscape, Kunsthalle, Ham- burg ; Lake Constance with Cloud Effect ; Landscape at Moonrise ; View on the Un- tersberg ; Coast Scene ; Moonlight Night on Swedish Coast ; Venice ; The Auer Kirchc near Munich by Moonlight (1884), New Pinakothek, Munich. D. Kunstbl. (1857), 2G1 ; Miiller, 3(13. MELANTHIUS (Melanthus), painter of the Sicyouian school ; pupil of Pamphilus, about 332 n.c. He was a fellow-student of Apelles, by whom he was considered supe- rior to himself in composition. Pliny says (xxxv. 32-[50]), he was one of the four great painters (the others being Apelles, Echion, and Nicomachus) who executed their im- mortal works with four colours only, white, yellow, red, and black. The only one of his pictures mentioned represented Aristra- tus of Sicyon standing beside the chariot of the Goddess of Victory, which Nealces pre- served from destruction. Plut. Arat., 13 ; Bruun, ii. 142. MELBYE, (DANIEL HERMAN) AN- TON, born in Copenhagen, Feb. 13, 1818, died in Paris, Jan. 10, 1875. Marine paint- er, pupil of Copen- hagen Academy un- der Eckersberg, and much influenced by Rumohr; visited, on board of Danish men- of-war, the North, Bal- tic, and Mediterranean seas, obtained a prize in 1843, went to Stock- holm and Hamburg in 1846, and the year after to Paris, where the Due de Decazes be- came his patron. In 1853 he accompanied the French embassy to Constantinople, paint- ed there for the Sultan, and after his return for Napoleon III. ; revisited Copenhagen in 1858, and having worked for a while in Hamburg returned to Paris. Member of Copenhagen Academy ; L. of Honour, 1854 ; Order of Danebrog, 1858. Works : Ships Cruising ; Eddystone Lighthouse (1846), Copenhagen Gallery ; Boat in Danger ; Floating Ice on Coast of Greenland ; Morn- ing after Storm ; Roadstead of Copenhagen ; do. of Constantinople ; French Meu-of-War on Greek Coast ; Naval Battle in Kjoge Bay (1855), Copenhagen Gallery; Road- stead with Ships (1850), Corvette (1851), Solitude of the Sea (1852), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Agitated Sea after Sunset (1867), Schwerin Gallery ; Moonlight on Bosphorus. Art Jour- nal (1875), 280; Kunst- Chronik, x. 330 ; Sig. Miiller, 250 ; Ny illustrerad Tid- ning, 1875 ; Weilbach, 471 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, xiv. 354. MELBYE, (KNUD FREDERIK) VIL- HELM (HANNIBAL), born at Elsinore, May 14, 1824. Marine painter, brother of Anton, pupil of Copenhagen Academy. Works : Pilot Boat in Stormy Weather (1847), Copenhagen Gallery ; Roadstead of 288
