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 invites two pilgrims to enter his house; a cavalier receives at the door of a prison an unfortunate whom he has come to deliver; in a chamber of same building, a doctor and another care for a sick person; and in background, a funeral cortège surrounds an open grave. Engraved by J. P. Le Bas (1747). Replicas, Buda-Pesth Gallery; Steengracht Gallery, Hague; and others.—Filhol, ii. Pl. 104; Villot, Cat. Louvre.

Seven Works of Mercy, David Teniers, younger, Louvre, Paris.

MERCY'S DREAM, Daniel Huntington, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas, H. 7 ft. 5 in. × 5 ft. 9 in. Scene from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: "Methought I looked up and saw one coming with wings towards me. So he came directly to me and said, 'Mercy, what aileth thee?' Now, when he had heard me make my complaint, he said, 'Peace be to thee!' He also wiped my eyes with his handkerchief, and clad me in silver and gold. He put a chain about my neck, and ear-rings in my ears, and a beautiful crown upon my head." Painted in 1850; replica owned by Mr. Carey, Philadelphia.

MERIAN, MATTHÄUS, the younger, born at Basle, Switzerland, in 1621, died in Frankfort, Feb. 15, 1687. History and portrait painter, son of the engraver Matthäus the elder (1593-1650); pupil in Frankfort of Joachim von Sandrart, with whom, in 1637, he went to Amsterdam and in 1640 to England, where he took Van Dyck for his model; then visited the Netherlands, Paris, and Rome, where he studied after the old masters, under Sacchi. At the celebration of peace at Nuremberg, in 1650, and at the coronation of Leopold I. at Frankfort, in 1658, he painted the portraits of many notable persons. Works: Artemisia mixing her Husband's Ashes in her Drink, Mr. H. Burkhard, Basle; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1652), Bamberg Cathedral; Resurrection, City Library, Basle; Portraits of Electors of Brandenburg, Mentz, the Palatinate, Duke of Zelle, Count Serini, Artist's father, his sister Maria Sibylla (Basle Museum), of himself (Darmstadt Museum), Family Group (1641). By his father are: Sunrise (1639), Basle Museum; View of