Andrea Gram

Grete Ingeborg Johanne Andrea Gram (20 March 1853 – 10 May 1927) was a Norwegian painter. She is best known for her landscapes and portraits. Gram is also known for being a subject of an Eilif Peterssen portrait.

Early life Grete Ingeborg Johanne Andrea Gram was born on 20 March 1853 at the family estate Ask gods in the village of Ask at Norderhov parish in Buskerud. She was the daughter of Major General Johan Georg Boll Gram (1809–1873) and Frederikke Stabell. She was a sister of Jens Gram, granddaughter of Magistrate Jens Jensen Gram, first cousin of Gregers Gram and aunt of Johan Fredrik Gram and Mads Gram.

Gram and her sisters received private lessons in drawing, singing and reading from an early age. Their father took great pleasure in bringing them to observe their newly acquired skills.

Personal life and death She married Swedish physician Emil Kleen (1847–1923) on 26 May 1881 and moved to Stockholm, where her output slowed. Gram died there on 10 May 1927, at the age of 74.

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