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- temporary. Landscape and genre painter,
pupil of Gustave Morin, of Zacharie, and of Bouguereau. Medal, 3d class, 1886. Works: Norman Landscape, Paternosters of the Seigneur de Gurzon (1880); Evening at Étretat (1881); Behind the Farm (1882); Vale of Antifer (1883); The Plain (1884); The Little Valley (1885); The Ascent of Benouville—Étretat (1886).
- LEROLLE, HENRI. Add to works:
Close of the Day (1886), Henry T. Chapman, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y.
LEROY, PAUL ALEXANDRE ALFRED, born in Paris; contemporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Alexandre Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1882. Works: Jesus with Martha and Mary (1882); Portrait (1883); Mordecai (1884); Recreation, Friday at Sidi-Abd-er-Rahman (1886).
- LOIR, LUIGI. Awarded a 2d class
medal for his La fumée du chemin de fer, Salon, 1886.
LONGCHAMP, Mlle. HENRIETTE DE, born at Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne); contemporary. Flower and fruit painter. Medals: 3d class, 1847; 2d class, 1848. Works: Offering to the Holy Virgin (1846); Fruit (1847); A Road-side Cross (1848); Offering to St. Geneviève (1863); Chrysanthemums, Tea Roses (1874); Noisette Roses (1882); Group of Roses (1883); Roses near Water, Study of Roses (1884); Autumn Roses (1885); Hundred-Leaf Roses (1886).
LUCAS, FÉLIX MARIE HIPPOLYTE, born at Rochefort-sur-Mer (Charente-Inférieure); contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Pils and of Henri Lehman. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Eclogue (1880); Dying Sappho (1881); Forsaken—Souvenir of Venice (1884); Sacred Spring (1885); Portrait of Mlle. de V. (1886).
MACMASTER, WILLIAM E., born at Ballston, N. Y., May 22, 1823. Portrait, genre, and landscape painter; entered National Academy School, New York, in 1843; studied with Charles L. Elliott in 1843-45, and with John Vanderlyn in 1848. He painted portraits in Washington until 1852, having among his sitters Thomas H. Benton, Daniel S. Dickinson, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, and William H. Seward. In 1852-70 he painted in New York; in the latter year he went to Europe, studied under Albrecht Schenck at Écouen, and spent several years in Paris. In 1878 he accompanied William H. Seward to California and painted in the Yosemite Valley. Among his other works are: The Opera Belle (bronze medal, Exposition universelle, Paris, 1867); Mont Blanc from Chamounix (1868), George W. Allen, Milwaukee; The Jungfrau (1871), A. V. H. Carpenter, ib.; Eruption of Vesuvius (1878), L. E. Conrad, Philadelphia; and portraits of Presidents Pierce (1852) and Buchanan (1856), General H. W. Slocum (1866), Thomas C. Durant (1868), Alexander Mitchell (1871), General Winfield S. Hancock (1880), and Roswell P. Flower (1882).
- MARÉCHAL, CHARLES LAURENT,
died at Bar-le-Duc, January, 1887.—Chronique des Arts (1887), 31.
MAREST, Mlle. JULIA, born in Paris; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Charles Chaplin and of Gervex. Medal, 3d class, 1885. Works: La Roussotte (1881); Satisfied (1882); Far niente (1883); Teasing (1884); Marquise Nina (1885); Portrait of Mme. R. (1886).
MASSARANI, TULLO, born in Mantua, Italy; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Induno. Officer of Legion of Honour, 1878. Studio in Milan. Works: Infancy in Greece, Lady of the Manor and a Vassal (1880); L'esclave aux colombes (1885).
- MEISSONIER, JEAN LOUIS ERNEST.
At the Morgan sale, New York, 1886, were sold the following: A Standard Bearer (1857), $15,000, In the Library (1876), $16,525, Charles Crocker, San Francisco; The Vedette—1812 (1883), $15,000, S. P. Avery, New York.
MERCIÉ, (MARIUS JEAN) ANTHONIN, born at Toulouse, France; contemporary. History and portrait painter, pupil