"Anna Boberg was born the 3 December, 1864 at Stockholm. She is a daughter of F. Scholander, who played such a prominent part in the development of modern Swedish architecture, and is the wife of Ferdinand Boberg, one of the most eminent architects in Sweden. With that dauntless energy so characteristic of the highly talented family to which she belongs, she has, during the past few years worked her way up to European fame.

The locality from which she takes her subjects is the Lofoten Islands, off the coast of Norway, and there she has painted those huge mountains rising out of the sea, surrounded by fleets of fishing boats, which have the same form as the old Viking ships, and the crews of which have not a little of the hardi...