Painted Ladies

Set in an artists’ colony in Skagen in Denmark, Painted Ladies is a fictional story based on the actual lives of artists living and working there around the turn of the 20th century. The story centres around Marie Kroyer, who met the famous artist and leading light of the Skagen art movement, Peter Soren Kroyer, when she was a young art student, and married him.

The other main character is Anna Ancher, a native of Skagen who married one of the artists at an early age and went on to become herself perhaps the finest artist of them all.
 

Other settings in the book include Copenhagen, Paris during the International Exhibition of 1889 and Sicily.
Siobhán Parkinson brings the colour and intensity of these Bohemian characters, and their painting, to life in a vivid imagination of their life and times.