MULLER. JOHANN FRIEDRICH Wrr.nELm, 1782-1816; b. Germany; studied engrav ing under his father, Johann Gotthard, at Stuttgart, and at the academy and the Louvre in Paris. In 1808 his engraving of " St. John about to write his Revelation," after Dom enichino, won him a high reputation, which was maintained by his "Adam and Eve under the Tree of Life," after Raphael. In 1814 Ile was appointed professor of engrav ing in the Dresden academy, and the rest of his life was devoted to the execution of the plate of his areatest.work, the "Madonna di San Sisto,". after Raphael's picture of that name, in the 'Dresden' gallery; His Onktivingaaro only 18 in muniber;,Mostly portraits, including Schiller, Jerome Bonaparte, the king of Wartemberg, the poet Jacoby, and a medallion of Napoleon I.
:NreLLER, JOHANN GOTTHARD VON, 1747-1830; b. WUrtemberg; educated at the Stuttgart art academy, where he showed such a talent for design that he was allowed to give up his studies for the church, for which he had been intended, and make art his profession. He at first studied under the court painter Guibal, but, developing a talent
for engraving, went to Paris in 1770, where, for six years, he studied under the engraver Wille. There he won a number of prizes, and was elected a member of the French academy. 1111776 duke Karl recalled him to Stuttgart, where he taught for 9 years, when he was summoned to Paris to engrave a portrait of Louis XVI., by Duplessis. Next in importance to this is his engraving of Trumbull's "Battle of Bunker Hill." He became professor of engraving on his return to Stuttgart, where his son Johann Friedrich was his most proficient pupil. He was elected a member of the principal European academies, and was knighted in 1818. Besides those mentioned, his best works are a "Madonna della Leggiola;" a " St. Catherine with two Angels," after Leonardo da Vinci; and a " Schiller," after the portrait by Graf.