"Svolvaer Harbour at the Height of the Fishing Season," Anna Boberg, 1934.

Swedish painter Boberg (1864-1935) was many things in her life; from an artistic family, she never had formal artistic education and so was pretty much self-taught. She worked in ceramics, glass, textiles, set design, and was a writer, before settling into painting in her own individual style, a mix of Impressionism with some touches of Realism and the Danish Skagen school.

Married to an architect, she first did a few tapestries for some significant buildings, which were later exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. She also designed a number of popular ceramic and glass pieces before being inspired to take up painting by a trip to Norway in 1901.

Most of her paintings are of Norway, and weren't very popular in her home country, but were well-received elsewhere. Her husband designed a house on an island near Svolvaer where she could stay and work; this painting was likely done at the island retreat.

Eventually her work found an audience, and acclaim, in Sweden, to the point that when she died in 1935, several members of the Swedish royal family attended her funeral.

From the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

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