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-
