MERRITT, Anna Lea Massey  (1844-1930) designer, painter.
          Married name: Mrs Henry Merritt.
          Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844.
          She married her onetime art instructor and they lived
          in Europe with frequent return visits to Philadelphia.
          Died London, 1930.

          She used a MAL monogram for her paintings but signed her
          one medal with last name MERRITT.

          M   E   D   A   L   S

1885 Springfield Massachusetts Civil War Army and Navy
          Monument Dedication Medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Storer 1631
          Auctions:. . . . . . . . .  CAL 33:1271, CAL 35:32; J&J 25:22;
                    PCA 47:1425, PCA 51:554, PCA 56:1073, PCA 60:818
          Collection: American Numismatic Society. . . . . .1916.57.3
          Collection: Smithsonian National Numismatic. . . . 377:277
 
      A  R  C  H  I  V  E  S

NYPL  New York Public Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division. 4 vols.

          C  O  L  L  E  C  T  I  O  N  S

C4  {1912} Comparette 277, p 377.

          B I O G R A P I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S

101  {1981} Gorokhoff (Galina) editor, Love Locked Out: The Memoirs of Anna Lea
          Meritt with a Checklist of Her Works. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts (1981) 267 pages.
BW3 {1985} Petteys.
D33  {1986} Opitz, p 615.
BW4 {1990} Chiarmonte 2872-2876, p 732-733.
AE2 {1990} Falk, Art Institute of Chicago, p 613.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 2:2253.
D3a {2006} Benezit.Dictionary of Artists, p 9:808.

          N U M I S M A T I C   R E F E R E N C E S

M10 {1923} Storer (Massachusetts) 1631, p 211.
E17  {1983} Pessolano-Filos, p 81.