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Fields; Gathering the Flock; Peasant Girl; Misty Morning—Rome; Children at Fountain; In the Fields, Devotees at Shrine of S. Pantaleone (1883); The Vow, National Gallery, Rome.—Müller, 370; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiv. 54.
MICHIELI, ANDREA. See Andrea Michieli.
MICHOLD, EDMUND, born in Cologne
in 1818. Genre painter, studied in Cologne
and Munich, afterwards lived alternately in
Düsseldorf and Cologne. Works: Tyrolese
Family; Musical Shoemaker; Cobbler training
Bird; Uncautious Tailor.
MICON, painter and brass caster of Athens,
son of Phanochus and fellow-worker at
Athens of Polygnotus, 5th century B.C. Said
by Pliny (xxxiii. 56 [160]; xxxv. 25 [42]) to
have been the first, with Polygnotus, to use
yellow ochre (sil) and black made from
burned grape-husks. Noted for his skill in
painting horses. Among his works were
the Battle of Theseus, and the Athenians
with the Amazons, in the Pœcile at Athens;
the same subject, on one of the walls of the
Theseum, and the Fight between the Centaurs
and the Lapiths, on another wall of
the same building; and the Argonautic Expedition,
in the Temple of the Dioscuri.—Paus,
i. 18, 1; Brunn, i. 274.
MICON, painter, called the younger by
Pliny (xxxv. 35 [147]). He was the father
of Timarete.—Brunn, ii. 300.
MIEL (Meel), JAN, called Bieke, Jamieli,
and Giovanni
delle Vite, born
near Antwerp or
in Brussels (?)
in 1599, died in
Turin in 1664.
Flemish school;
history, genre,
and landscape
painter, said to
be a pupil of
Geeraard Zegers; afterwards studied under
Andrea Sacchi at Rome, then gave up historical
style and painted genre after the
manner of Pieter van Laar; called to Turin
in 1658, as painter to the Duke of Savoy;
member of the Academy of S. Luca in 1648.
His hunting-pieces are much esteemed;
figures true to nature and drawn with much
spirit. Works: Mendicant, Neapolitan Barber,
Military Halt, Travellers Dining, and
others, Louvre; Travellers before Italian
Inn, Rotterdam Museum; Herdsman with
Goats, do. with Cattle, Dresden Gallery;
See Harbour, Vienna Museum; Skirmish
near a Castle, Musée Rath, Geneva; Prodigal
Son tending Swine, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Venus with Bacchus and Ceres (1645),
Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Mountebank,
Peasants Dancing, Halt of Hunting
Party, four others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Feeding of the Poor in Capuchin
Monastery, Scene in Courtyard of Italian
House, Schleissheim Gallery; Dead Donkey,
Stettin Museum; Shepherd Boy and
Dog, Czernin Gallery, Vienna; Rustic Scene,
Bergamo Gallery; Landscape with Figures
and Animals, Peasant Family Resting, Herdsman
and Ox, Two Shepherds with Cow and
Goats (?), Artist's Portrait, Uffizi, Florence;
Incident of Stag-Hunt, The Meet, Interior
of Sculptor's Studio, Portrait of Marie de
Bourbon-Soissons, Turin Gallery; Huntsmen
Resting, Historical Society, New York;
Ten pictures in Madrid Museum; Seaport
with Figures, National Gallery, Edinburgh.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xxi. 712; Immerzeel, ii.
225; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 331; Kramm, iv.
1118; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Fétis,
Artistes belges à l'étranger, i. 315; Michiels,
x. 296; Rooses (Reber), 408.
MIELICH (Müelich), HANS, born at
Munich in 1516, died there in 1573. German
school; history, portrait, and miniature
painter, perhaps pupil of Sigmund
Schnitzer (court-painter in Munich about
1514-36), and influenced by Altdorfer; appears
as a master as early as 1546, and afterwards
became court-painter to Duke Albrecht
V. of Bavaria. Seems to have visited Italy,
to judge from an existing copy of Michelangelo's
Last Judgment; excelled in min-