Sunlight in the Blue Room

Inspired by the works of the artists who spent their summers at the inn, she decided to take up painting as a profession at a time when women were not admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Unlike the other painters who depicted the local fishermen and landscapes captured en plein air, Anna's works were mainly interiors and portraits of friends and family.

[3] Mette Bøgh Jensen, curator of Skagens Museum, explains that Anna Ancher's interior paintings are "more about the colour and light than anything else".

[4] The artist's main interest is "not in replicating the reality of the room or wall, or even the light, but rather what is left when these things are stripped away and all that remains are colour and form".

"[5] In her Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, Delia Gaze assesses Anna Ancher's achievements as remarkable "in the modernity of her idiom, with its reduced, abstracting forms and bold expressive colours, singling her out as one of the most innovative painters of her generation, exceeding most of her male colleagues, including her husband".