Anna Lea Merritt
(1844–1930) American painter (1844-1930)
Anna Lea Merritt (USA, 1844–1930) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Anna Lea Merritt belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.
Anna Lea Merritt was born in Philadelphia and died in Hurstbourne Tarrant. Anna Lea Merritt trained at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Anna Lea Merritt worked in Great Britain, London, Dresden, and Philadelphia. Wikidata associates Anna Lea Merritt with Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The works belong mainly to the genres portrait painting and history painting. The catalogue has 20 works by Anna Lea Merritt with free images. The dated works span the years 1877–1899. Works by Anna Lea Merritt are held by several collections, among them Prints in the National Gallery of Art, Tate, Oxford Town Hall, and Royal Museums Greenwich.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Syrius Eberle, Edmonia Lewis, Peter Johann Theodor Janssen, Albert Neuhuys, and Hugo Kauffmann.