Andrea Gram

Grete Ingeborg Johanne Andrea Gram (20 March 1853 – 10 May 1927) was a Norwegian painter.

She was born in Ask in Norderhov[1] as a daughter of Johan Georg Boll Gram (1809–1873). She was a sister of Jens Gram, granddaughter of Jens Jensen Gram, first cousin of Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram and aunt of Johan Fredrik Gram and Mads Gram.[2] She married Swedish physician Emil Kleen in 1881.[1]

She took her education at Knud Bergslien's painting school, and also studied under Eilif Peterssen in the 1870s.[1] Other of Peterssen students at the time were Harriet Backer, Kitty Kielland and Asta Nørregaard. Peterssen is well known for a portrait of Andrea Gram, and it has been speculated that there was a certain romance between them; however Peterssen married Andrea Gram's sister.[3] Herself, Gram is nationally known for her landscape portraits.[1]

References

Bratberg, Terje (2007). "Andrea Gram". In Henriksen, Petter. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
Bratberg, Terje (2007). "Gram – slekt etter Mads Nielsen Gram". In Henriksen, Petter. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
Kokkin, Jan (2001). "Eilif Peterssen". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 7 November 2009.