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Show A Noted Painter. Miss Merrick, the Kensington artist, has received a commission from Henry M. Stanley to paint his portrait, which is to be presented totboKoyalOeograplil-sal totboKoyalOeograplil-sal society aftor the next salon, where it will be exhibited. Miss Merrick, it will be remembered, went to Egypt to paint the kbedive, and while tliero met Verdi, who gave her a sitting while put.ing the finishing notes in the scoreof his famous "Aida." She is said to be the host paid portrait painter among the English women, wo-men, and can get her own price for her pictures. Boston Record. |