Early days:

Anna Kirstine Brøndum Ancher was a Danish painter who was born in Skagen,Denmark.Anna Ancher(1859 –1935) was the daughter of Ane Hedvig and Erik Brondum.Her father worked as  a grocer and he also owned the Hotel Brøndum. She was the eldest of the 5 children in her family. Her talent became evident at an early age and she grew familiar with pictorial art via the scores of artists who settled to paint in Skagen.Among them one  of the artists who visited Skagen  was Michael Ancher,to whom Anna had got married in the year 1880.Anna Ancher’s artistic career was outstanding, due to the fact that she was a painter at a time when it was unusual that women received an creative education.Additionaly they were not accepted at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Interesting fact :

There is an fascinating story about the hotel Brondum and the birth of Anna  Ancher.Its seems that, in 1859, when the well-known author H. C. Andersen was on a holiday in  Skagen, he went to the Hotel Brondum to have dinner.He ordered fish,but since the restaurant ran out of fish,Anna’s mom sent a boy to a nearby village to buy fish. As the meal was getting very delayed,H.C Anderson got so angry and he shouted  at the poor lady.Eventually when the meal with  the fish arrived , it was too delicious. H.C Anderson ,later wrote about it in one of his stories,the meal was so yummy, that even a king  would have called it a wonderful dinner.

On the other hand,it is supposed that his shouting disturbed Anna's mother so terribly  that she went into labor and delivered Anna that same night.