- 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.
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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.
