Missing "Missing" is the title of a painting by Elizabeth Thompson. Does it mean "the lost persons", i.e. "the missing in action"? In 1873 she completed a work entitled Missing which depicted two wounded French officers during the Franco-Prussian War and which was the first of her paintings to be accepted by the Royal Academy. https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/the-return-from-inkerman-by-elizabeth-thompson/