Anna Lea Merritt - Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott

Title:	Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott
Engraver:	Merritt, Anna Lea (Philadelphia, 1844 - Hampshire, England, 1930)
Designer:	Richmond, George (Brompton, 1809 - London, 1896)
Date:	1880
Medium:	Original Etching
Publisher:	Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, Boston
Source:	The American Art Review
Note:	Anna Lea Merritt: Along with Mary Nimmo Moran, Eliza Greatorex and Ellen Hale, Anna Lea Merritt ranks with the greatest women American painter-etchers of the nineteenth century. She studied art in London, under the painter, Henry Merritt. She later married her former teacher and spent much of her life in England. During her career, Merritt achieved an international reputation, winning awards in Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, London and Paris. Today, her original etchings and paintings are included in the collections of the National Gallery of British Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Harvard University.
	Along with her work, Anna Lea Merritt was a constant advocate of women's art and for Americans to seriously appreciate their own art. She wrote, "In America the patronage of native art used to be so exceedingly timid, though enormous prices were given for French pictures, that formerly young American artists had either to live abroad, so as to enter their native land under foreign colors, or open a studio and teach amateurs." ** Establishing her reputation first in England and France, Anna Lea Merritt chose the former route.
	Anna Lea Merritt was most highly regarded for her portraits and figure studies. "Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott" was published in 1880 by Sylvester Rosa Koehler for "The American Art Review". It is indicative of her fine work in this genre. Such art placed Anna Lea Merritt, along with Stephen Schoff and Stephen James Ferris, among the first rank of early American portrait etchers.
	The American Art Review. A Journal Devoted to the Practical theory, History, and Archaeology of Art: Inspired by the European etched art of James McNeill Whistler, Charles Meryon, Sir Francis Seymour Haden and others, a large number of American artists became seriously interested in the art of etching by 1875. A primary catalyst to the etching revival in America was the journal, "The American Art Review" (1879-1881). Founded and edited by Sylvester Rosa Koehler it commissioned American artists for original etchings. Contributing etchers included such notable artists as Thomas and Peter Moran, Otto Bacher, J. M. Falconer, F. S. Church, Robert Swain Gifford, Henry Farrer, Samuel Coleman, Alfred Brennan, Anna Lea Merritt and S. J. Ferris.
	Due mostly to its lavish production costs the journal lasted only slightly over two years. The finely printed etchings it produced, however, served as a cornerstone for the many great American etchings of the early twentieth century. Anna Lea Merritt contributed two etchings to this publisher, "Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott" (1880) and Ophelia.
Reference:	* Daryl R. Rubenstein, "American Portrait Etching of the Late Nineteenth Century", pp. 232 - 256, in, W. W. Reaves, ed., American Portrait Prints, Smithsonian Institution, the University Press of Virginia, 1984. Quotation and illustration, p. 239.
	** Francine Tyler, American Etchings of the Nineteenth Century, New York, Dover Books, 1984. Quotation, p. XII.
Size:	7 1/4 X 4 7/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $265.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon nineteenth century hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as published in 1880 for "The American Art Review". Bearing the artist's monogram in the plate to the lower left and inscribed in the plate to the lower right, "Anna Lea Merritt aq. fts. (aqua fortis) after George Richmond - 1879". A strongly printed, early impression with full plate tone and in excellent condition throughout. Portrait of "Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott" represents a prime, original example of the important portrait art of Anna Lea Merritt.
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Original Etching by the American artist, Anna Lea Merritt after George Richmond.

Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott

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Merritt, Anna Lea (Philadelphia, 1844 - Hampshire, England, 1930)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
01-		Ophelia by Anna Lea Merritt	Original Etching	1880	Signed and dated by the artist in the plate, along the lower margin.
02.-		Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott by Anna Lea Merritt after George Richmond	Original Etching	1880	Bearing the artist's monogram in the plate to the lower left and inscribed in the plate to the lower right, "Anna Lea Merritt aq. fts. (aqua fortis) after George Richmond - 1879" as p;ublished for the American Art Review, Boston

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"The American Art Review. A Journal Devoted to the Practical theory, History, and Archaeology of Art" (Nov. 1879 to Oct. 1881)
#	Image	Title & Etcher	Artist Info	Medium	Date	-
01.-		A Village Street in France by Joseph Foxcroft Cole	Joseph Foxcroft Cole 'J. F. Cole' (Jay, Maine, 1837 - Winchester, Mass., 1892)	Original Etching	1879 (1st Ed: 1880)	Sold
02.-		A Young Republican by John Ames Mitchell	John Ames Mitchell 'John Mitchell' (New York, 1845 - Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1918)	Original Etching	1881	Sold
03.-		Coal Pockets at New Bedford, Massachusetts by Robert Swain Gifford	Robert Swain Gifford 'R. S. Gifford' (Nonamesset, Mass., 1840 - New York, 1905)	Original Etching	1879	Sold
04.-		Devil's Way, Algiers by Stephen James Ferris 'Stephen Ferris'	Stephen James Ferris 'Stephen Ferris' (Plattsburg, N. Y., 1835 - Philadelphia, 1915)	Original Etching	1879
05.-		Divination in Tea Leaves by Alfred Laurens Brennan	Alfred Laurens Brennan 'Alfred Brennan' (Louisville, Kentucky, 1853 - Brooklyn, New York, 1921)	Original Etching	1879
06.-		Durham, England by Samuel Colman	Samuel Colman (Portland, Maine, 1832 - New York City, 1920)	Original Etching	1880
07.-		Lady of Cairo Visiting by James David Smillie after Frederick Arthur Bridgman	James David Smillie 'J. D. Smillie' (New York City, 1833 - 1909)	Original Etching	1881
08.-		Leukothea (Leucothea) Appears to Odysseus by Hans Meyer after Friedrich Johann Christian Ernst Preller	Hans Meyer (Berlin, 1846 - 1919)	Original Etching and Aquatint	1881
09.-		Mill Pond at Windsor Connecticutt by Albert Fitch Bellows	Albert Fitch Bellows 'Albert Bellows' (Milford, Massachusetts, 1829 - New York, 1883)	Original Etching	1879	Sold
10.-		Moonlight on the Androscoggin by John Henry Hill	John Henry Hill 'John Hill' (West Nyack, New York, 1839 - 1922)	Original Etching and Aquatint	1880	Sold
11.-		Mrs. Philip Nicklin by Stephen James Ferris 'Stephen Ferris' after Gilbert Stuart.	Stephen James Ferris 'Stephen Ferris' (Plattsburg, N. Y., 1835 - Philadelphia, 1915)	Original Etching	1879
12.-		Near Mattakeesett by Edmund Henry Garrett	Edmund Henry Garrett 'Edmund Garrett' (Albany, New York, 1853 - Nedham, Massachusetts, 1929)	Original Etching	1881
13.-		Negro Huts at Wilmington, North Carolina by John Mackie Falconer	John Mackie Falconer 'John Falconer' (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1820 - Brooklyn, N.Y., 1903)	Original Etching	1880	Sold
14.-		November by Stephen Parrish	Stephen Parrish (Philadelphia, 1846 - Cornish, N. H., 1938)	Original Etching	1880	Sold
15.-		Old Boat House, Gloucester, Massachusetts by Charles Adams Platt	Charles Adams Platt 'Charles Platt' (New York City, 1861 - 1933)	Original Etching	1881	Sold
16.-		Old Cedars, Coast of Maine by James David Smillie	James David Smillie 'J. D. Smillie' (New York City, 1833 - 1909)	Original Etching	1880	Sold
17.-		On New York Bay by Henry Farrer	Henry Farrer (London, England, 1843 - Brooklyn, New York, 1903)	Original Etching	1879	Sold
18.-		On the Housatonic by Hendrik Dirk Kruseman Van Elten	Hendrik Dirk Kruseman Van Elten 'Hendrik Kruseman Van Elten' (Alkmaar, Holland, 1829 - Paris, 1904)	Original Etching	1881	Sold
19.-		On the Shepang River, Connecticut by Hendrik Dirk Kruseman Van Elten	Hendrik Dirk Kruseman Van Elten 'Hendrik Kruseman Van Elten' (Alkmaar, Holland, 1829 - Paris, 1904)	Original Etching	1880	Sold
20.-		Passaic Meadows (In The Newark Meadows) by Thomas Moran	Thomas Moran (Bolton, England, 1837 - Santa Barbara, Ca, 1926)	Original Etching	1880
21.-		Pond at Cernay-La-Ville by Eliza Pratt Greatorex	Eliza Pratt Greatorex 'Eliza Greatorex' (Manor Hamilton, Ireland, 1820 - Paris, 1897)	Original Etching	1880	Sold
22.-		Portrait of Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton by Stephen James Ferris 'Stephen Ferris' after Daniel Huntington	Stephen James Ferris 'Stephen Ferris' (Plattsburg, N. Y., 1835 - Philadelphia, 1915)	Original Etching	1881
23.-		Portrait of Sir Gilbert Scott by Anna Lea Merritt after George Richmond	Anna Lea Merritt (Philadelphia, 1844 - Hampshire, England, 1930)	Original Etching and Aquatint	1880
24.-		Schwabelweiss by Otto Henry Bacher	Otto Henry Bacher 'Otto Bacher' (Cleveland, 1856 - Bronxville, Ny., 1909)	Original Etching	1879	Sold
25.-		Summer by Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl	Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl 'Ignaz Gaugengigl' (Passau, Bavaria, 1855 - Boston, 1932)	Original Etching	1880
26.-		Sunset, Gowanus Bay by Henry Farrer	Henry Farrer (London, England, 1843 - Brooklyn, New York, 1903)	Original Etching	1880	Sold
27.-		The Mermaid by Frederick Stuart Church	Frederick Stuart Church 'F. S. Church' (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1842 - New York, 1924)	Original Etching and Aquatint	1880	Sold
28.-		The Noonday Rest by Peter Moran	Peter Moran (Bolton, England, 1841 - Philadelphia, Pa, 1914)	Original Etching	1877 (1st Ed: 1880)
29.-		The Old Clothes Dealer, Cairo by Stephen James Ferris 'Stephen Ferris' after Jean-Leon Gerome	Stephen James Ferris 'Stephen Ferris' (Plattsburg, N. Y., 1835 - Philadelphia, 1915)	Original Etching	1880
30.-		The Path by The Shore by Robert Swain Gifford	Robert Swain Gifford 'R. S. Gifford' (Nonamesset, Mass., 1840 - New York, 1905)	Original Etching	1879	Sold
31.-		Up The Hill by James David Smillie	James David Smillie 'J. D. Smillie' (New York City, 1833 - 1909)	Original Etching	1879	Sold

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