MEITRANT Vienna, 1873 ; Order of Leopold. Works : Martyrdom of St. Stephen (18(!G), Ghent Museum ; Pieta ; Burial of Trappist Monk, Courtray Museum ; Defence of Brabant Peasants in 1797, Brussels Museum ; Fres- cos in St. Joseph's, Louvain ; Brazier's Shop (1880); Casting of Steel (1881); Lassitude (1882); Miner's Descent (1885). Miiller, 368. MEUBANT. See Mnrant. MEURON, ALBERT DE, born at Neu- chatel ; contemporary. Landscape and ani- mal painter, son and pupil of Maximilien de Meurou, then in Paris pupil of Gleyre and of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Gold medal, Berlin, 1857. Works : Chamois Hunters at Early Morn (1853), Dying Hus- band (1853), Berne Museum ; Cows at Drinking Place, Descent of Cattle in Sum- mer (1863) ; Chamois Hunters, Cows in Pasture (1865); Bergamo Shepherds, Sou- venir de Clarens (1866); Negress carrying Fruit and Basket (18G6), Berne Museum ; David Victor over Goliath, Pasture on Road to the Faulhorn (1858), Col de la Berniua with Herds (1864), Place de Capri (1868), Old Fir Trees in Jura Mountains, Neuchutel Museum ; Allegory of the Juugfrau (188:)). Bellier, ii. 81 ; D. Kunstbl. (1854), 462 ; (1856), 3G4 ; (1857), 105 ; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 233. MEURON, MAXIMILIEN DE, born at Neuchatel in 1785, died in 1868. Laud- scape painter of considerable fame in his own country, from which he usually drew his subjects. Works : View in Ancient Rome (Baths of Caracalla), View in Modern Rome (1816), Lake of Wallenstadt (1846), The Great Oak, Bridge of Corchiano, Val- ley of Naefels, Camp of Valangin in 1831, The Great Eiger seen from the Wegern Alp, Neuchatel Museum. MEYER VON BREMEN. See Meyer, Johann Georg. MEYER, DIETHELM, born at Baden, Aargau, Jan. 28, 1840, died in Munich, Oct. 13, 1884. Genre painter, pupil of Paul Deschwanden at Stanz, then of Auschiitz at the Munich Academy, and of Cabanel and Breton in Paris ; settled in Munich in 1869 ; spent his summers in his fatherland, where he painted Swiss Alpine lifo, such as mountain festivals and hunting episodes, which made him popular throughout Ger- many. Works : Woman returning from Harvest, Woman and Two Children on a Mule, Basle Museum ; Young Girl of Sim- menthal (1S78), Berne Museum. Academy, Nov. 8, 1884 ; Tsclmrner, D. bild. K. in d. Schweiz im Jahre 1884, 57. MEYER, EDGAR, born in Tyrol ; con- temporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Diisseldorf Academy. Works : Sixty archi- tectural and landscape views in Italy and Tyrol (1878); San Remo (1883); Schwarzen- stein Lake, Innsbruck Museum; Storm Land- scape, National Gallery, Berlin: Graveyard in South Tyrol, View in Mola di Gaeta (1884). Miiller, 368 ; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 184. MEYER, ERNST, born at Altona, May 11, 1797, died in Rome, Feb. 1, 1861. Genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Acad- emy, and in Munich of Cornelius ; spent some time at Naples and Amalfi, and in 1833 settled in Rome ; travelled over nearly the whole of Europe in 1844, and visited Paris and Switzerland in 1848-51. Mem- ber of Copenhagen Academy in 1843 ; Or- der of Dannebrog. Works : Two scenes from Roman Street Life ; Interior of Fish- erman's Hut near Naples ; House in Tivoli (Villa Rosenstein, near Stuttgart) ; Lazza- roni Family (1831), National Gallery, Ber- lin ; Public Letter- Writer (1833), Neapoli- tan Fisherman's Family, Knnsthalle, Ham- burg ; Old Fisherman looking after the Wind, Boy taken to Monastery by his Par- ents, The Two Friends, Little Girl by a Spring, Boy presented to Parson (1846), Gallery, Copenhagen ; several in Thorwald- sen Museum, ib. ; Italian Women singing, Old Franciscan Monk receiving Letter from a Peasant, Harrach Gallery, Vienna. All- gem. Zeitg. (1861), 58; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1835), 18 ; (1844), 21 ; Jordan, 198 ; Weil- bach, 480. 253
