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34. Panay, Philippines: House with Child at Gate

Watercolor, 7 x 9 in.
circa 1901 – 02
Signed lower right; "Anna Stanley Holbrook"
Private Collection South Hamilton, Massachusetts

35. Antigua Province, Philippines

Oil on canvas, 11.5 x 8.5 in.
circa 1902, Antigua Province, Philippines
Unsigned
Private Collection, South Hamilton, Massachusetts

36. Lily Stanley, Age 17

Oil on canvas, 18 x 12 in.
circa 1884
Signed lower right; "Anna H. Stanley '84"
Private Collection, South Hamilton, Massachusetts

37. The Little Fisherman

Also Known as "Lone Fisherman" "Hopeful Fisherman"
Oil on canvas, approximately 30 x 24 inches
circa 1888-89 or 1895, Rijsoord, Netherlands
Signed in tacking edge, "Anna (unclear)"; Private Collection, Washington, DC

Recovered in 2014

38. Madame Candelaria

Oil on canvas, 26 x 30 in.
1887, San Antonio, TX
Signed Lower Left “Anna Stanley, 1887”
Private Collection, Austin, Texas

Recovered in 2015

MISSING WORKS

The following list of works, whose whereabouts are yet unknown, include paintings, one known charcoal drawing, and possibly a print. This inventory has been compiled through written documentation, including: (1.) Anna's own letters; (2.) exhibition records; and (3.) photographs of Anna's home in the Philippines (ca. 1901 - 1903) that reveal her artwork tacked to the walls. The compiled list has been researched through art historical archives, exhibition catalogues, and other records, along with the assistance of family members and collectors. The works have then been vetted and compared to known works by the artist for possible title misattributions. Works that cannot be tied to known paintings by the artist are listed as "missing works." The following works may be gifted, included in family collections, located in Europe, destroyed, or sold. Although no known sales records of Anna's paintings exists (possibly disappearing along with her sketchbooks over the past 100 years since her death), the efforts to locate missing works is unceasing. In the last five (5) years four (4) works have been located. The following titles and descriptions is meant as a discovery aid in continuing to locate the artist's opus.

PORTRAIT DE MME. E.H…: --FUSAIN (dessin au fusain – charcoal drawing)

D – 3627. (Stanley, Mlle. Anna H.)
Paris Salon
May 1888.

Anna, in a letter to her parents dated May 8, 1888, writes about the "three weeks spent on my drawing…. It is very well hung in the corridor – on the second line.” (One page of the letter is missing, and there is no description of the drawing given.) In the same letter she refers to her friend, Lena (Pauline) Dohn, whose work is listed as, "#867 Mlle. P. Dohn Tête d’enfant." Anna comments that "Lena’s is hung pretty well, too."

Au commencement et à la fin / AT EACH END OF THE THREAD

P- 2511 (Mlle A.-H. Stanley)
Salon de 1889
Catalogue Peinter & Sculpture
Le 1, May 1889.

In a letter from Anna to her parents regarding the acceptance of her painting in the Paris Salon, she states, "So old Frau Black and Jannika will grace the wall of the Salon!" The letter is undated, but refers to a check that arrived on March 14 [1889]. Acceptance to the Salon was posted in March. (possibly an oil on canvas.)

# 196
The National Academy of Design
Sixty-fifth Annual Exhibition
April 10 – May 17, 1890 (original price $250)

Girl Stirring the Fire / Dutch Girl Stirring the Fire

# 218
The National Academy of Design
Sixty-fifth Annual Exhibition
April 10 – May 17, 1890 (original price $200)

Probably oil on canvas

# 161
Detroit Museum of Art
First Annual Exhibition of American Art
June 8 – June 27, 1891 (original price $200)

(Same painting as Girl Stirring a Fire)

The Busy BEE

# 60
The National Academy of Design
Eleventh Autumn Exhibition
November 21 – December 17, 1892 (original price $100)

Field of BLUEBONNETS or Blue Flowers in a Field

(Possibly painted in Holland or Texas) Last seen by Marian Holbrook Roberson in 1985 in the last home of Grace Colgate Rumbough, a descendant of Anna Stanley’s. Grace lived in Washington, DC from the 1970’s until her death on February 25, 1985. Her immediate family has no knowledge of the whereabouts of the picture. (Listed in an insurance appraisal by Otto Veerhoff in 1976. )

Eight Oil Sketches of Ann's Son, Willard Ames Holbrook, Jr. AU COMMENCEMENT ET

Each sketch is approximately 3 x 5 inches and framed together (17 x 15.5 inches). Painted at Fort Grant, AZ in the ca. 1899-1900. Last seen in Marian Holbrook Roberson’s home in Washington DC. The work came missing after 1986. (Listed in an insurance appraisal byOtto Veerhoff in 1976.)

Heather-covered Dunes, Holland

Listed as exhibited by the Society of Washington Artists at the Cosmos Club, March 2 – 7, 1896. (An image of this painting has not been located.)

Day Nursery

Depicts nine (9) young children of varying ages and a nanny in a room with toys. (The work is dissimilar to Anna’s other known works; identified from a black and white photograph.)