Danish painter Bertha Wegmann was born #OTD 1847 (d1926). She lived and worked in Munich for 10 years and then moved to Paris, returning to Copenhagen in 1882. First woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Photo c1891; "Woman in Black" c1872. #WomensArt

Bertha Wegmann began her lifelong friendship with Swedish artist Jeanna Bauck when both were students in Munich. In 1881 Wegmann painted her warmly affectionate "Portrait of Jeanna Bauck": a testament to friendship and a statement of respect for a fellow artist. #WomensArt

In the 1880s Bertha Wegmann, by then a well-established artist, was mentor to the young Copenhagen art student Marie Triepcke, and painted this portrait of her: "A Young Woman, Marie Triepcke, Sitting in a Boat" (1884). Triepke was later better known as Marie Krøyer. #WomensArt