MILTON MILTON, portrait, Cornells Jaiison van (fallen, Pnssmore Edwards, M.P., London. Milton at the age of ten years ; full face, fig- ure seen to waist, life-size. Long in posses- sion of T. Hollis, who purchased it in 1760 ; bought by Mr. Stanhope of the poet's widow for 20 guineas, and is probably the one re- ferred to by Aubrey. Sold in 1884, 346 10s. Engraved by Cipriani ; Boydell (1794); appears as frontispiece in Masson's Life of Milton. London Times, May 12, 1884. MILTON DICTATING PA11ADISE LOST, Michael Munkacsy, Lenox Gallery, New York ; canvas. Milton seated at left beside a table, around which are grouped his three daughters, one writing, another embroidering, the third standing ; all look towards their father, as if intent upon his words. Painted in 1877 ; medal of honour at Paris Exhibition, 1878 ; purchased by Robert Lenox Kennedy, of New York. Bitched by G. Greux, in Portfolio. Port- folio (1880), 109; Am. Art llev. (1881), ii. 17 ; Ainer. Architect (1879), 195. MIND, GOTTFRIED, born at Berne in 17G8, died there, Nov. 7, 1814 ; or, accord- ing to Wurzbach, born at Lipcsc, Hungary, in 17G8, died at Berne, Nov. 15, 1814. Ani- mal and genre painter, first instructed by one Legel, then pupil of Sigmund Freu- denberger, in whose house he thenceforth remained, faithfully assisting the master. Mind's specialty was the representation of cats, in which he had no equal ; many of his pictures became widely known through lithographs and engravings, and won him the surname of the Cat Raphael. Among his genre pictures those of children at play were the most successful. Works : Various Animals, Cat with her Young, Landwehr- mann of Berne, Two Poodle Dogs, Basle Museum ; Groups of Cats (3), Berne Mu- seum. Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 765 ; Wurz- bach, xviii. 339. MINDERHOUT, HENDRIK VAN, born in Rotterdam in 1632, died in Antwerp, July 22, 1696. Flemish school ; marine painter. Free of guild at Bruges in 1663, moved to Antwerp in 1672, and forthwith entered the guild there. Painted harbours and rivers with vessels very truthfully, but the numerous figures in his pictures are of inferior merit. Works : Harbour in the Levant (1675), Antwerp Museum ; do., Rou- en Museum ; do., Christiania Gallery ; View of Reservoir at Bruges (1653), Bruges Acad- emy ; Seaport (1673), Dresden "Museum ; two River Views with Skippers Feasting, Madrid Museum ; Storm at Sea, Turin Gal- lery. Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 483 ; Kramm, iv. 1134 ; Van den Branden, 876. MINERVA or Athena, pictures. See An- liphilus, G'luanthez, Fubullus. MINERVA REPELLING MARS, Tinto- retto, Palazzo Ducale, Venice ; canvas. Mi- nerva repels the God of War with her left hand, and with her right protects Peace and Abundance, who are seated together. En- graved by Agos. Carracci. Bartsch, xviii. 105 ; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 217. MINISTER'S GARDEN, Cecil Lawson, Manchester Gallery ; canvas, H. 6 ft. x 7 ft. 4 in. A tribute to the memory of Oliver Goldsmith; suggested by "The Deserted Village," though not meant as a portrait of "Sweet Auburn." Composition made in and about the hillside that crowns the vil- lage of Sandhurst. The Minister's Garden, an old-fashioned one, with hollyhocks, roses, and marigolds, occupies the foreground on the slope of the hill which fades away into the distance ; at left, under a tree, are bee- hives ; in the middle distance, a few figures. Grosvenor Gallery,1878. Mag. of Art (1884), 483 ; Gosse, Cecil Lawsou, 20, 25. MINJON. See Mifjnon. MINNIGERODE, LUDWIG, born at Stryi, Galicia, April 12, 1847. Genre paint- er, pupil of Vienna Academy under Eduard Engerth, settled in Vienna. Medal in Phila- delphia, 1876. Works : Tete-a-Tete ; Morn- ing Bath ; Studying Monk (1874); Sleeping 274
