ME HI AN Heidelberg, Schleissheim Gallery ; and Landscape with Skippers and Fishermen, Vi- enna Museum. Allgein. d. Biogr., xxi. 424. MEKIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA, born at Frankfort, April 2, 1047, died at Amster- dam, Jan. 13, 1717. German school ; flower and insect painter, sister of preceding, pupil of her step-father Jacob Marrel (1C14-85), and of Abraham Miguon. Having married the painter Johann Andreas Graf (1037- 1701) in 1005, she settled at Nuremberg; returned in 1084 to Frankfort, and after- wards moved to Holland, whence she visit- ed the West Indies, painting for two years at Surinam (1690-1701) the native insects and plants. A former work on insect life, and one published as a result of this jour- ney, made her famous. Most of the origi- nal 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 daugh- ters Johanna (born in 1008) and Dorothea (1078-1745) excelled in the same line ; the latter accompanied her to Surinam and aid- ed in the above-named work. Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 425. MERLE, HUGUES, born at St. Marcellin (Iscre), March 1, 1823, died in Paris, March 20, 1881. Genre painter, pupil of L. Co- gniet ; painted life-size pictures of subjects taken from the life of the poor, carefully drawn but cold in colour and often theatri- cal in treatment. Medals : 2d class, 1801, 1803 ; L. of Honour, 18CG. Works : Will o' the Wisps (1848) ; Migration of Shep- herds in the Alps (1850) ; Repose of Holy Family (1859) ; The Beggar (1801), Lux- embourg Museum ; Assassination of Henri HI, Visit of the Grandparents (1863); Mar- guerite trying on the Jewels, Poor Mother (1866); Girl of Etretat (1869); Right Road, Crazy Woman (1873) ; Pernette Spinning, Little Bohemian Girl (1874); Day and Night, H Bambino (1876) ; Odette, Charles VI, Charlotte Corday (1878) ; The Redeemer (1879) ; Hebe after lier Fall, Carmosiue (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. Vauderbilt, ib. ; Petite Ber- ceuse (1860), L. Tuckerman, ib. ; Grand- mother's Story, Samuel Hawk Collection, ib. ; Little Jeaunette, William Astor, ib. ; The Angelus, Jay Gould, ib. ; Good Sister, A. Belmont, ib. ; Mother and Sister, Robert Hoe, ib. ; Moses in the Bulrushes, W. Rocke- feller, ib. ; Courtship, Maiden in the Forest, Italian, Israel Corse, ib. ; Nursing Baby, Frank Work, ib. ; Pauvre Folle, J. T. Mar- tin, 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. Whit- ney, ib. ; La Folle, Mrs. J. G. Fell, ib. ; Young Girl of Etretat, Fairman Rogers, ib. ; Secret, H. Probasco, Cincinnati ; Good Sis- ter, Judge Hoadly, ib.; Contemplation, H. Hurlbut, Cleveland; Right Path, Return from Fields, T. Wiggles worth, Boston ; Chasing the Butterfly, H. Kidcler, ib. ; Ma- ternal Affection, W. Mason, Taunton, Mass. ; Scarlet Letter, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; Byzantine Madonna, J. A. Brown, Provi- dence ; 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 ; Bel- lier, ii. 74 ; Meyer, Gesch., 695. MERLIN, BEGUILING OF, Burne- Jones, private gallery ; canvas, H. 6 ft. x 3 ft. 7 in. Illustration of Tennyson's "Vivi- en," one of the " Idyls of the King." Vivien, standing, with a book in her hand, is repeat- ing the magic words which she Las persuad- ed Merlin to teach her ; in background, the old wizard is being gradually transformed under the magic spell. MERRITT, ANNA LEA, born in Phila- delphia ; contemporary. Portrait and fig- 248
