Anna Petersen

Anna Petersen
Born(1845-02-20)20 February 1845
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died6 August 1910(1910-08-06) (aged 65)
Rønne, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Known forPainting
Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse (Danish: Bretagne-pige ordner planter i et drivhus), 1884

Anna Sophie Petersen (20 February 1845 – 6 August 1910) was a Danish painter. Although she showed some promise as an artist, specifically in genre painting, she struggled to find a place in the male-dominated Danish art world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work fell out of fashion and she was largely forgotten until the end of the 20th century when the Hirschsprung Collection and Statens Museum for Kunst acquired some of her more important works.