[*** = these works discussed on the site so far.]
Works: subject pictures
- A Bacchante (1874-5)
- Ophelia (1880) (Smart Museum of Art, U of Chicago)
- The little Quakeress (1881)
- War (1883) (Bury Art Museum)***
- Camilla (1883)
- St Cecilia (1886)
- Iphigenia (1887)
- Luna 'wandering companionless among the stars' (1889)
- Love Locked Out (1889) (Tate)***
- Eve (1893)
- Watchers of the Strait Gate (1894) (La Salle College Art Gallery, Pennsylvania)
- Piping Shepherd (1895) (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)
- Merry Maids (1899)
- I will give you Rest (1900)
- The Serpent Woman (1906)
- The Boyish Muse
- The Cornfield (Guildhall Art Gallery)***
- Across the Valley (Guildhall Art Gallery)***
Works: portraits
- Sir William Boxall RA (1878) (Royal Academy of Arts)
- Henry Merritt (1878) (Oxford City Council)
- James Russell Lowell (1882) (Harvard University)
- Mrs Stirling (Lady Hutton Gregory) as the Nurse (Romeo and Juliet) (1884) (Royal Shakespeare Company Collection)
- Lady Jane de Saumarez, née Jane Anne Broke, wife of James 4th Baron de Saumarez (1884) (St John's residential Home, Guernsey)
- Warren de la Rue (1885) (The Royal Institution)
- Captain Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Bt (1885) (National Maritime Museum)
- Lady Loraine with her little Daughter (1885)
- John Owen (1888) (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge)
- Mrs I. Holman Hunt (1888) (William Morris Gallery) Henry James (1889)
- Mrs Arnold Toynbee, treasurer of Lady Margaret Hall (1908) (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)
- Self-portrait (1910-15) (National Museum of Women in the Arts)
- A Duet
Works: etchings
- Mary Wollstonecraft (after Opie) (1878) (MFA Boston)
- Sir Gilbert Scott (after Richmond) (1879)***
- Louis Agassiz (1879) (MFA Boston)
- View on the Thames (c 1879) (MFA Boston)
- Ellen Terry as Ophelia (c 1879)***
- Ophelia (1880)***
- John DeWitt (1880) (MFA Boston)
- Eve (1887)***
- Madge Kendall, actress (Metropolitan Museum, NY)
Bibliography
Cox, Devon. The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde, and Sargent in Tite Street. London: Frances Lincoln, 2015. [Review in Victorian Web]
Gorokhoff, Galina, ed. Love Locked Out. The memoirs of Anna Lea Merritt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986.
Maggs, Olive. Anna Lea Merritt's Murals. Guildford: Society for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey, 2011.
Merritt, Anna Lea. An Artist's Garden. London: George Allen, 1908.
Postlethwaite, Helene. "Some Noted Women-Painters." Magazine of Art 1895. v. 18, 17-22.
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