Anna Lea Merritt

Ophelia

Anna Lea Merrit was most highly regarded for her portraits and figure studies. "Ophelia", etched in 1880, is one of her greatest original etchings. Bearing some elements of the British Pre-Raphaelite movement, it is an unforgettable and provocative study of this famous Shakespearean heroine.

This original engraving is printed upon nineteenth century hand-made, laid paper as published in 1880. "Ophelia", is a fine, original example of the portrait art created by the American artist, Anna Lea Merritt.

Original Etching by the American artist, Anna Lea Merritt after George Richmond.

Ophelia

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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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Title:	Ophelia
Artist:	Merritt, Anna Lea (Philadelphia, 1844 - Hamshire, England, 1930)
Date:	1880
Medium:	Original Etching
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, Anna Lea 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.
	Apart from her work, Anna Lea Merritt was a constant advocate of women's art and for Americans to seriously study 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. (Francine Tyler, American Etchings of the Nineteenth Century, New York, Dover Books, 1984, p. XII).
Size:	8 3/8 X 5 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $235.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon nineteenth century hand-made, laid paper and with margins cropped to the image. Signed and dated by the artist in the plate, along the lower margin. A fine , early impression and in good condition throughout. This original etching entitled, "Ophelia" stands as an excellent example of the art of Anna Lea Merritt.
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