Gallery; Crabmonger (1723), Man at Break-*fast, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel, ii. 236; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 545; Kramm, iv. 1142.
MONLEON Y TORRES, Don RAFAEL,
born in Spain; contemporary. Marine
painter. Works: Roadstead of Alicante
(1881), Madrid Museum; Canal in Holland
(1884), Ateneo, ib.; Shipwreck in Port of
Loredo (1884).—La Ilustracion (1884), i. 58,
99, 109, 395.
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MONNOYER, JEAN BAPTISTE, born
at Lille, July 19,
1634, died in London,
Feb. 16, 1699.
Flemish school;
flower and still-life
painter, studied in
Lille, went early to
Paris, where in 1665
he became member,
and in 1679 councillor,
of the Academy.
Favoured with numerous orders from
Louis XIV. and the nobility; he was called
to England by Lord Montague, whose house,
besides others, he decorated; often painted
backgrounds for Kneller's portraits. Works:
Flower- and Fruit-pieces in the Louvre,
Paris (8), in Museums of Arras, Grenoble,
Lille (2), Lyons (4), Montpellier (3), Nantes,
Orléans (2), Rennes (2), Rouen (3), Toulon
(2), Troyes; Carlsruhe Gallery (2); Old
Pinakothek, Munich.—Bellier, ii. 110; Ch.
Blanc, École française, i.; Dezallier, ii. 332;
Jal, 880; Lejeune, Guide, i. 190; Michiels,
ix. 293.
MONSEIGNEUR'S ANTECHAMBER
(L'antichambre de Monseigneur), Georges
Jean Vibert, M. Botchine, Moscow. An
antechamber in a cardinal's palace, with
several persons awaiting an audience; at
left, a pretty peasant girl, seated on a sofa,
holding in her lap a basket containing a
live hen, with which a jolly monk, sitting
beside her, is playing; at right, an austere-*looking
friar, with an open breviary in his
hands, is peeping suspiciously around from
behind a column, as if he feared that something
wrong was going on; in background,
two other persons conversing. Salon, 1876.
MONT, DEODATUS VAN DER (Delmont),
born at Saint Trond, Belgium, baptized
Sept. 24, 1582, died at Antwerp, Nov.
24, 1644. History painter, pupil of Rubens,
who honoured him with his particular
friendship, and whose travelling companion
he was in Italy in 1600-1608; master of the
Antwerp guild in 1608. Was employed as
painter and architect by the Duke of Neubourg,
who ennobled him, and as an engineer
by Philip IV. of Spain. Van Dyck
painted his portrait. Works: Transfiguration
of Christ, Antwerp Museum; do., Nancy
Museum.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874),
107; Michiels, viii. 213; Rooses (Reber),
271; Van den Branden, 747.
MONTAGNA, BARTOLOMMEO, born at
Orzinovi, near Brescia, about 1450, died at
Vicenza, Oct. 11, 1523. Venetian school;
resident of Vicenza in 1480, and painted an
altarpiece there in 1483. Bred probably in
the local school of Vicenza, he was early
attracted by Bellini and Carpaccio, but his
style was not fully developed until he visited
Padua (1491), where he studied Mantegna.
From Padua he went to Verona,
and in 1496 settled down to steady work in
Vicenza, where he was held in great esteem,
and accounted the first resident master.
Among his best works are the Madonna and
Saints (1499), Brera, Milan; Madonna, in
S. Maria in Vanzo, Padua; Madonna and
Saints, Venice Academy; do. (1487), Bergamo
Gallery; do. (1499), Milan Academy;
do. (1500), Berlin Museum; and the Pietà
(1500), Church of Monte Berico. Other
examples in the Vicenza Gallery, in the
