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 Heidelberg, Schleissheim Gallery; and Landscape with Skippers and Fishermen, Vienna Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 424.

MERIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA, born at Frankfort, April 2, 1647, died at Amsterdam, Jan. 13, 1717. German school; flower and insect painter, sister of preceding, pupil of her step-father Jacob Marrel (1614-85), and of Abraham Mignon. Having married the painter Johann Andreas Graf (1637-1701) in 1665, she settled at Nuremberg; returned in 1684 to Frankfort, and afterwards moved to Holland, whence she visited the West Indies, painting for two years at Surinam (1699-1701) the native insects and plants. A former work on insect life, and one published as a result of this journey, made her famous. Most of the original paintings for them are in the British Museum, and in the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. In the Vienna Museum is a Basket with Flowers, and in the Basle Museum, Locust and Chafers. Her daughters Johanna (born in 1668) and Dorothea (1678-1745) excelled in the same line; the latter accompanied her to Surinam and aided in the above-named work.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 425.

MERLE, HUGUES, born at St. Marcellin (Isère), March 1, 1823, died in Paris, March 26, 1881. Genre painter, pupil of L. Cogniet; painted life-size pictures of subjects taken from the life of the poor, carefully drawn but cold in colour and often theatrical in treatment. Medals: 2d class, 1861, 1863; L. of Honour, 1866. Works: Will o' the Wisps (1848); Migration of Shepherds in the Alps (1850); Repose of Holy Family (1859); The Beggar (1861), Luxembourg Museum; Assassination of Henri III., Visit of the Grandparents (1863); Marguerite trying on the Jewels, Poor Mother (1866); Girl of Étretat (1869); Right Road, Crazy Woman (1873); Pernette Spinning, Little Bohemian Girl (1874); Day and Night, Il Bambino (1876); Odette, Charles VI., Charlotte Corday (1878); The Redeemer (1879); Hebe after her Fall, Carmosine (1880). Works in United States: Autumn of Womanhood, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York; Lisette of Beranger, Good Sister, Mrs. Paran Stevens, ib.; Grandmother's Story, Going to Church, Marguerite, R. L. Stuart Collection, ib.; Ferdinand and Miranda, C. P. Huntington, ib.; Inspiration, Maternal Love, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib.; Petite Berceuse (1860), L. Tuckerman, ib.; Grandmother's Story, Samuel Hawk Collection, ib.; Little Jeannette, William Astor, ib.; The Angelus, Jay Gould, ib.; Good Sister, A. Belmont, ib.; Mother and Sister, Robert Hoe, ib.; Moses in the Bulrushes, W. Rockefeller, ib.; Courtship, Maiden in the Forest, Italian, Israel Corse, ib.; Nursing Baby, Frank Work, ib.; Pauvre Folle, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Angel's Prayer, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; Fisherman's Family in a Storm, Marguerite and Mephistopheles, Mrs. T. A. Scott, ib.; Good Sister, J. Whitney, ib.; La Folle, Mrs. J. G. Fell, ib.; Young Girl of Étretat, Fairman Rogers, ib.; Secret, H. Probasco, Cincinnati; Good Sister, Judge Hoadly, ib.; Contemplation, H. Hurlbut, Cleveland; Right Path, Return from Fields, T. Wigglesworth, Boston; Chasing the Butterfly, H. Kidder, ib.; Maternal Affection, W. Mason, Taunton, Mass.; Scarlet Letter, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Byzantine Madonna, J. A. Brown, Providence; New Novel, R. C. Taft, ib.; Autumn, W. Richmond, ib.; Poor Mother, Young Mother, J. F. Warren, Hoosac Falls, N. Y. His son and pupil, Georges Merle, is also a genre painter.—Art (1881), xxv. 24; Bellier, ii. 74; Meyer, Gesch., 695.

MERLIN, BEGUILING OF, Burne-Jones, private gallery; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 3 ft. 7 in. Illustration of Tennyson's "Vivien," one of the "Idyls of the King." Vivien, standing, with a book in her hand, is repeating the magic words which she has persuaded Merlin to teach her; in background, the old wizard is being gradually transformed under the magic spell.

MERRITT, ANNA LEA, born in Philadelphia; contemporary. Portrait and fig