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See also:MEUNIER, CONSTANTIN (1831-1905) , Belgian painter and sculptor, was See also:born at Etterbeek, See also:Brussels. His first exhibit was a See also:plaster See also:sketch, " The See also:Garland," at the Brussels See also:Salon in 1851. Soon afterwards, on the See also:advice of the painter See also:Charles de Groux, he abandoned the See also:chisel for the See also:brush. His first important See also:painting, " The Salle St See also:Roch " (1857), was followed by a See also:series of paintings including " A Trappist Funeral " (1860), " See also:Trappists Ploughing " (1863), in collaboration with See also:Alfred Verwee, " Divine Service at the Monastery of La Trappe " (1871) and episodes of the Peasants' See also:War (1878). About 188o he was commissioned to illustrate those parts of Camille See also:Lemonnier's description of See also:Belgium in Le Tour du monde which referred to miners and factory-workers, and produced " In the Factory," " Smithery at See also:Cockerill's," " Melting See also:Steel at the Factory at See also:Seraing " (1882), " Returning from the See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
Pit," and " The Broken Crucible " (1884). In 1882 he was employed by the See also:government to copy Pedro Carnpana's " Descent from the See also:Cross " at See also:Seville, and in See also:Spain he painted such characteristic pictures as " The Cafe See also:Concert," " Procession on See also:Good See also:Friday," and " The See also:Tobacco Factory at Seville " (Brussels See also:Gallery). On his return to Belgium he was appointed See also:professor at the See also:Louvain See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts. In 1885 he returned to statuary and produced " The Puddler," " The Hammerer " (r886), " Firedamp " (1889, Brussels Gallery), " Ecce Homo " (x891), " The Old Mine-See also:Horse " (1891), " The Mower " (1892), " The See also:Glebe " (1892), the See also:monument to See also:Father See also:Damien at Louvain (1893), " Puddler at the See also:Furnace " (1893), the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of decoration for the Botanic See also:Garden at Brussels in collaboration with the sculptor Charles See also:van der Stappen (1893), " The Horse at the See also:Pond," in the square in the See also:north-See also:east See also:quarter of Brussels, and two unfinished See also:works, the " Monument to Labour " and the See also:Zola monument, in collaboration with the See also:French sculptor See also:Charpentier. The " Monument to Labour," which was acquired by the See also:State for the Brussels Gallery, comprises four See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone bas-reliefs, " See also:Industry," " The Mine," " See also:Harvest," and the " See also:Harbour "; four See also:bronze statues, " The Sower " " The See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith " " The Miner," and the " Ancestor "; and a bronze See also:group, " Maternity," Meunier died at Brussels on the 4th of See also:April 1905.
End of Article: MEUNIER, CONSTANTIN (1831-1905)
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