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MORGENSTERN MORGENSTERN, KARL, born at Frank- fort in 1811. Landscape painter, grandson of preceding, pupil of Munich Academy (1832), whence he visited the Bavarian highlands, and in 1834 went to Italy ; his landscapes, of masterly perspective, are mostly views from different parts of that country. Works : Bay of Villafranca near Nice (1843), View of Naples, Bay of Baj;, Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort ; replica of first- named, and Coast of Capri, Tasso's House at Sorrento, Schack Gallery, Munich. Kaulen, 147 ; Schack (1884), 222. MORGENSTERN, (KARL) ERNST, born in Munich in 1847. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Christian, after whose death he studied under Joseph Schertl ; visited the Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Switzerland, North Germany, Holland, and Belgium. Works : Waldbachstrupp near Ischl, Stettin Muse- um ; Bftren Lake near Hohenaschau ; Starn- berg Lake ; View on Meisling Lake ; Village View near Dachau ; Eyteuhausen ; North German Heath ; Autumn Landscape with Chapel ; Evening ; Abandoned Mill; River Landscape ; Evening, Indian Summer (1883). -Miillcr, 377. MORIN, (FRANCOIS) GUSTAVE, born at Rouen, April 8 (18 ?), 1801), died there, Feb. 15, 1880. Genre and history painter, pupil of Chaumont and of Leon Cogniet. Mem- ber of Rouen Academy ; custodian of Rouen Museum since 1837 ; L. of Honour, 1863. Works : Last Hour (1835) ; Titian prepar- ing hisColours (1852), Havre Museum ; Con- quest of England, Magdalen, Youth of the Virgin (1848) ; Ariosto reading his Poem, Rouen Museum ; The Sharpers (1859), As- sembly of Saint- Vivien (1801), ib. Hedou, Gustavo Morin et son (Euvre (Rouen, 1877) ; Chronique des Arts (188G), Gl. MORITURI TE SALUTANT. See Glad- idlors. MORITZ, LOUIS, born at The Hague, Oct. 20, 1773, died in Amsterdam, Nov. 22, 1850. History and portrait painter, pupil of Dirk van tier Aa. Member of Hague, Brussels, and Ghent Academies. Works : Cleopatra taken Prisoner by Proculus (1809); Victory of Nieuwpoort in 1600 (1818); Fig- ures in Panorama of Waterloo; Battle of Nieuwpoort (1820), War Council of Civic Guard in Amster- dam ; Death of An- toninus Pius, Am- sterdam Museum ; Stable Interior, Rot- terdam Museum; Night Camp of Cossacks.- Immerzeel, ii. 240 ; Kramm, iv. 1156. MORITZ, WILLIAM, the younger, born at Neuchatel about 1805, died at Berne in I860. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of his father (William Moritz, the elder, land- scape painter?), then studied in Italy. Works : Henri II. de Longueville ordering Planting of Avenues at Colombin (1844), Wounded Chamois Hunter (1846), Neucha- tel Museum ; Empty Cradle (1856), Hus- band at the Inn (1858), Berne Museum. MORLAND, GEORGE, born in Lon- don, June 2 G, 1763, died there, Oct. 29, 1804. Figure and ani- mal painter, son and pupil of Hen- ry Robert Mor- land (1712-97), portrait painter, and grandson of George Henry Morland (died after 1789), subject painter ; also studied several years at the Royal Acad- emy, and copied assiduously the Dutch and Flemish masters. First exhibited at Royal Academy in 1779. Became dissipated, and died in a sponging-house. Painted chiefly country scenes with domestic animals, and enjoyed a high reputation. Works : Interior of Stable, Quarry with Peasants, National Gallery ; The Reckoning, South Kensington Museum ; his own portrait, National Por- trait Gallery, London ; Dogs fighting, Old 296