Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926) was a Danish painter of extraordinary skill and dedication. She is considered one of the most significant painters of the Danish Realism movement. She was among a small number of women artists of the period to be recognized and respected for her work in her own day and was one of the first professional female artists in Denmark to be in fierce demand as a portrait painter. It is said that after the famous Danish portrait painter P.S. Krøyer died in