Ragnhild Ender, Portrait of a lady Bust portrait of an elegant lady, wearing a hat and a red scarf, in a fur trimmed coat, against a dark background, low impasto portrait painting, oil on canvas, signed lower right, indistinctly place-named and dated, "Ragnhild Ender, Zürich [?]1935", indistinct annotations on the stretcher on the reverse, provenance according to previous owner's statement: from the artist's family, framed, folding dimensions approx. 67 x 53 cm. Artist info: Norwegian painter and graphic artist (1886 Kristiania to 1973 Oslo), daughter and student of the painter and sculptor Axel Ender (1853-1920), student of the Oslo State School of Arts and Crafts under Johan Nordhagen and Theodor Ludvig Wilberg, student of the private school of Christian Krohg in Oslo, 1910-11 studied at the Oslo State Academy of Fine Arts under Christian Krohg and Halfdan Strøm, encouraged by Erik Werenskiold and Henrik Sørensen, received various scholarships and bequests, made study trips to Paris, Italy and the Netherlands, active in Oslo , source: Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon," Wikipedia and Norwegian Artist's Encyclopedia.