Marie Sandholt

Anna Marie Louise Sandholt (1872–1942) was a Danish painter and ceramist who practised outdoor painting at a time when it was unusual for women to do so.

[3] Her real introduction to painting, however, occurred later when she was working as a maid in the home of the painter Viggo Pedersen (1854–1926) in Skamstrup near Holbæk.

[1] At a time when women artists were more active in textiles than in painting, Sandholt stood out as an oil painter who took her work extremely seriously.

On one of her study trips to Italy, she met the Norwegian painter Christian Krohg who helped her develop her technique and composition.

[1] One of her most notable early works is Morgenglæde (Morning Joy, 1902) depicting a mother with her four children in a double bed, inspired by Johansen's pictures of family life.