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of Antwerp Academy under De Keyser; then visited Paris and returned to Weimar, where he was much influenced by Preller's and Genelli's classical compositions. Works: Erasmus of Rotterdam at Basle; Tartini's Dream, Schack Gallery, Munich; Genius of Weimar; Preparing for the crowning with Thorns; Ahasuerus turning the Redeemer from his Door; Landscape with Bacchic Procession; Poetical Justice, and decoration of ceiling, Royal Theatre, Dresden.—Kaulen, 122; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 573; Illustr. Zeitg. (1877), ii. 486; Müller, 355.


MARSILIO AND HIS BRIDE, Lorenzo Lotto, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 2 in.; signed, dated 1523. A couple exchanging the ring of betrothal; Cupid, crowned with laurel, flutters behind and unites them by a pressure of his hand on their shoulders. Painted for Zanin Casotto, of Bergamo. Collection of Philip IV.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 514; Locatelli, i. 463.



MARSTRAND, VILHELM NIKOLAJ, born at Copenhagen, Dec. 24, 1810, died there, March 23, 1873. History and genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Eckersberg; went in 1836 to Munich and Rome; in 1848 became professor at, and in 1853-59 was director of, Copenhagen Academy. Especially successful in humorous genre scenes. Member of Copenhagen Academy and medal in 1841. Works: Day of changing Servants, Scene in Eating-House, Entry into Cellar, Street Scene in Dog-Days, Auction Scene, Musical Evening Party (1831-35); Outside the Prison; Festival of St. Anthony; Roman Citizens in a Tavern; Return from October Festival in Rome (1841), Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen; Erasmus Montanus (1844), Lying-in Room (1845), Sunday in Dalecarlia (1853), A Visit (1857), Last Supper (1869), Portrait of the Painter Constantin Hansen (1862), do. of the Art-Historian Hoyen (1869), Roman Woman in Carnival Attire, The Misshapen Lover, Copenhagen Gallery; Scene from Holberg's Would-be Politician (1852), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Holberg and the Two Fools; Minister and Poet; Historical frescos in Burial Chapel of Christian IV., Roeskilde Cathedral (1861-66).—D. Kunstbl. (1852), 361; (1855), 299; Sig. Müller, 237; Weilbach, 455.


MARSYAS. See Apollo and Marsyas.


MARSYAS, YOUNG, Elihu Vedder, private gallery. The young satyr, nude, seated at the foot of a large tree-trunk, in a landscape covered with snow, is playing pan-*pipes, with a circle of hares sitting around in a listening attitude. Exposition universelle, 1878.



MARTENS, THEODOR, born at Wismar, Mecklenburg, Aug. 26, 1822, died at Portici in Oct., 1884. Landscape painter, pupil in Düsseldorf of Aug. Weber, and in Paris of Lambinet; studied much after Corot, Diaz, and Daubigny, whose manner greatly influenced his art. Works: Landscape on Baltic Coast; On the Heights in Thuringia; Sunset; Huntsman's Lodge near Wismar; Waterfall; Marine; Oaks of Ivenau; Willows near Mill Pond (1875), Village of Mühlen-Eichsen 1879), Schwerin Gallery.—Kunst-Chronik, xx. 90; Müller, 355.


MARTERSTEIG, FRIEDRICH WILHELM, born at Weimar, March 11, 1814. German school; history painter, pupil of Weimar Art School (1829-34), of Düsseldorf Academy under Hildebrandt and Schadow, and in Paris of Delaroche; began with genre scenes, then treated events from the Thirty Years' War, the Reformation, and

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