Talk:Anna Lea Merritt

Images of her work

Adding this to help anyone who might want to look some of her obscure works (from: 'The Windsor magazine' Vol.38, 1895) https://archive.org/details/acd6136.0038.001.umich.edu/page/604/mode/2up?q=dundonald

List of known works

I'm adding these here to help keep track of my finds, hopefully I'll be able to create her own page dedicated to her works, many works on this list will be new, new (rediscovered) works which have been found in old articles, journals, magazines etc.

Many of the works will already be known, but some other of her works here were previously (from 2021) only known as 'unknown artist', 'circle of Anna Lea Merritt' or 'after Anna Lea Merritt' on certain sites, but by uncovering these old works, they are now given provenance.. by doing this, I realise that I'm raising the work's value, however I'm doing this because I feel it's the right thing to do rather than to exploit the market, so without further due here are confirmed paintings by the American lady.

1 - 'Love Locked Out'

2 - 'Portrait of Emma Elizabeth Rainsford'

3 - 'Countess (of) Dundonald' (1886)

4 - 'Earl of Dundonald' (1886)

5 - 'A Byzantine City'

6 - 'A lake with sailing boats'

7 - 'A Duet'

8 - 'Portrait of Colonel Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff KCSI KCMG'

9 - 'A woman in white writing at a desk'

10 - 'A lady arranging a vase of flowers'

11 - 'A Christmas Gift'

12 - 'A village'

13 - 'Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me'

14 - 'Lady Jane de Saumarez, née Jane Anne Broke (d.1933), Wife of James, 4th Baron de Saumarez'

15 - 'Mrs Stirling (Lady Hutton Gregory) as the Nurse (from 'Romeo and Juliet')'

16 - 'Ofelia' (1880)

17 - 'Henry Merritt' (Anna's husband)

18 - 'Luna' (1881)

19 - 'Merry Maids'

20 - 'Eve' (1887)

21 - 'Eleanor and Lionel, Grandchildren of Alfred Tennyson' (~1880)

22 - 'Portrait of miss Ethel Darcy aged 6'

23 - 'Jacqueline and Isaura, Daughters of captain sir Lambton Loraine brook, Bart'

24 - 'Blackheath, St Martin's Church, Angel bearing symbol of the Eucharist' Mural

25 - 'Castle seen through trees'

26 - 'Children planting a tree'

27 - 'Untitled'; Old balding man gripping his left wrist wearing a yellow jacket and torn white trousers

28 - 'The Cornfield'

29 - 'Young Girl Embracing a Woman'

30 - 'Two Studies of a Man in Fifteenth-Century Dress'

31 - 'John Owen'

32 - 'Cupid bound' (1906)

33 - 'Design of a glass stained window' Judgement scene with the Angel offering a branch to a figure on the edges of hell. St Michael stands with a spear on the left, ready to attack the dragon. Above, God the Father presides in Heaven.

34 - 'Doves' (1896)

35 - 'Piping Shepherd' Oil on wood (1904)

36 - 'Mary Wollstonecraft' (1880-1900)

37 - 'The Narrow Way' (Related to her painting of 'The Watchers of the Straight Gate')

38 - 'The Watchers of the Straight Gate'

39 - 'Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' (1882)

40 - 'Henry Merrit' (1878)

41 - 'Grandmother's boa' (1907)

42 - 'After George Richmond' (1879)

43 - 'Portrait of Sir Leslie Stephen, bust to left. (1889)

44 - 'Dame Frederica Mary Horatia, Wife of Sir Lambton Loraine with her daughter Jacqueline', referred in some sources as 'Lady Loraine' (1884)

45 - 'The Helping Hand' (might be this piece)

46 - 'Thomas Lynch Jr' (Reproduction)

47 - 'Troubled Thoughts'

48 - 'The new forest, near lyndhurst' (Possibly a reproduction of Patrick Nasmyth's painting by the same name, 1815)

49 - 'Gen. and Governor Dix' (was commissioned to hang at New York's Town Hall) - 1877.

50 - 'Lady Dufferin' - Full length (prior to 1889)

51 - 'The children of sir William Farrer' (prior to 1889)

52 - 'James Russell Lowell' - 3/4 length (1882)

53 - 'Captain Sir Lambton Loraine' three-quarter-length - (1884)

54 - 'Mrs. William H Rawle' (Listed as '1 Lady's portrait for W. H. Rawle of Philadelphia' in Knoedler Stock Book (1881)) (prior to 1881)

55 - 'Waiting for Mass, Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork' (1889)

56 - 'Weaving the Bridal Wreath' (Gertrude and Julia Lea) - 1904

57 - 'From Hurstbourne Hill Sheep Approuching Fill The Road' (1903)

58 - 'Miss Julia Lea and Mrs. William H Fearing' (Mrs H Fearing refers to a 'Gertrude Lea' who married a New York Banker) (prior to 1894)

59 - 'Two sisters' (Mary and Dorothy Shipley, daughters of Samuel R. Shipley Esq) - (prior to 1894)

60 - 'Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott' (~1879)

61 - 'Louis Agassiz' (1879)

62 - 'St. Cecilia' (1887)

63 - 'Portrait of Miss Marquand' (prior to 1888)

64- 'Sketch of needlework' (prior to 1893)

65 - 'I Will Give You Rest' (1901)

66 - 'A Baccante' (1875)

Hogyncymru (talk) 17:07, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

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