MEYER (Felix), an eminent landscape painter, was born at Winterthur in 1653, and received his earliest instruction from a painter at Nuremburg: but he was afterwards a disciple of Ermels, a good landscape painter, whose manner he entirely followed.—In search of still greater improvement, however, he travelled to Italy: but the climate not agreeing with his constitution, he retired to Switzerland; where, as he was indefatigable in surveying all the beauty, the wildness, and magnificence of nature in those romantic scenes, he made a multitude of noble designs, which procured him very high reputation. As he was not expert at painting figures, those which he inserted in his own pictures being very indifferent, such of his landscapes as were supplied with figures by Roos or Rugendas, are accounted most estimable. He died in 1713.