Lot 5: Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930)

Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930) Eve signed and dated 'Anna Lea Merritt/1885.' (lower left) oil on canvas 30 x 43 in. (76.8 x 109.2 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, 1885, no. 126. Chicago, Jackson Park, Art Palace, World's Columbian Exposition, 1 May-30 October 1893, no. 330, as 'Eve overcome by Remorse'. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Victorian Visions: Nineteenth-Century Art, 20 May-29 August 2010, no. 23. London, Leighton House Museum, Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite and Nineteenth-Century Art, 26 April-23 September 2012.

H. Blackburn (ed.), Academy Notes 1885, London, 1885, pp. 7, 28, illustrated. Times, 2 May 1885, p. 10. Reynold's Newspaper, no. 1812, 3 May 1885, p. 5. Illustrated London News, no. 2403, 9 May 1885, p. 481. Athenaeum, no. 3004, 23 May 1885, p. 667. Pall Mall Gazette, no. 6305, 30 May 1885, p. 3. Art Journal, 1885, p. 257. The Spectator, no. 2972, 13 June 1885, p. 785.

Bought from the artist in 1885 at the Royal Academy exhibition by Alfred Waterhouse, R.A. with Richard Green, London. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 2006, lot 214. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 June 2009, lot 77, where purchased by the present owner.