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 *ure painter, pupil of her husband, Henry Merritt, artist and author, in London; travelled four years in Europe and exhibited first at Royal Academy in 1871; also a successful etcher. Studio in London. Works: Catharine, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia; Juliet (1879); War, Ophelia (1880); Little Quakeress, Luna (1881); Taming a Bird, War (1883); Belle Dame sans Merci (1884); Eve (1885); St. Cecilia (1886). Portraits: Mrs. H. G. Marquand (1881); Lord Walter Campbell; James Russell Lowell (1882); Justine and Bayard Cutting (1883); Mrs. F. E. Colman (1884).—Am. Art Rev. (1880), 229.

MERSON, LUC OLIVIER, born in Paris, May 21, 1846. History painter, pupil of Chassevent and Pils. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1869. Paints well-studied and carefully drawn historical pictures in a somewhat eccentric style. Medals: 1869; 1st class, 1873; L. of Honour, 1882. Works: King Edmund the Martyr, Vision of the Cross (1873); Sacrifice to Patriotism (1876); St. Michael (for the Gobelins); Wolf of Agubbio (1878); St. Isidore, Repose in Egypt (1879); St. Francis preaching to the Fishes (1881); two decorative paintings in Palais de Justice, Paris; Angelo pittore, Judgment of Paris (1884); Arrival at Bethlehem (1885); Repose in Egypt, S. A. Coale, St. Louis.—Bellier, ii. 76; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 327, 370, 387; Gaz. des B. Arts (1868), xxiv. 19; La Ilustracion (1883), i. 43; D. Rundschau, xx. 475.

MÉRY, ALFRED ÉMILE, born in Paris, April 17, 1824. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Beaucé. Medals, 1868, 1878. He has invented a new process of painting in water-colours by which all kinds of painting can be executed with a single preparation. Works: Demolished Nest (1865); Bees and Hornets Fighting, Yard Interior (1866); Around a Cherry Tree, Do not tease the Hornets! (1868); In Want of Something Better, Hen and Mice (1869); Bee in the Fields (1870); Force before Right (1872); Exploits of an Ape (1874); Every one for Himself (1877); Intervention (1878); Unity makes Strong, In my Garden (1880); Decorative Panel, A Gourmand (1881); Chain without End, Cats Studies (1882); Surprised in the Bath (1883); Parisian Sparrow (1884); Fallen Sultan (1885); Larks caught in Snares (1886).—Bellier, ii. 76.

MESDAG, HENDRIK WILLEM, born at Gröningen in 1831. Marine painter, pupil of Alma Tadema; lives at The Hague. Medals: Paris, 1870; 3d class, 1878. Works: Fishermen's Boats at Scheveningen (1871); Departure of Life-boat from Scheveningen; Return of Life-boat; Strand near Scheveningen (1874), Amsterdam Museum; Sunrise on Dutch Coast, Rotterdam Museum; Evening on the Strand; Summer Evening; Twilight; Heaving the Anchor; Morning on the Scheldt; Fish-*market in Gröningen (1879); Collision (1882); Looking for Anchors after Storm, North Sea (1884); On Coast of Holland, Evening on Strand of Scheveningen (1885); In Danger, Arrived (1886).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 583; Müller, 367; Illustr. Zeitg. (1882), i. 407.

MESSINA, ANTONELLO DA. See Antonello da Messina.

MESSINESE, IL. See Avellino, Giulio.

MESSYS. See Massys.

MESTSCHERSKY, ARSENIUS, born at Tver in 1834. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, and in Geneva of Calame; won first prize in 1859; member of St. Petersburg Academy in 1861. Works: Winter Party in Finland, Landscapes in Finland.—Dioskuren, 1868.