title: The Artist's Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Blue Room
text: # The Artist's Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Blue Room
  
  The artist's mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the blue room (Danish: Kunstnerens mor Ane Hedvig Brøndum i den blå stue) is an oil on canvas painting by Danish painter Anna Ancher from 1909. It is held at the National Gallery of Denmark, in Copenhagen.
  
  ## Description
  
  The painting is oil on canvas, and has dimensions of 38.8 x 56.8 cm.
  
  ## Analysis
  
  Anna Ancher made several paintings of her mother, Anna Hedvig (Ane) Brøndum (1826-1916), who was married to merchant and innkeeper Erik Andersen Brøndum (1820–90). After her husband's death in 1890 she ran Brøndum's Hotel, with her son Degn Brøndum, until she was 70 years old. The portrait depicts the blue room at the hotel where she lived when at the time, and where she used to read. Several of Anna Ancher's portraits of her mother have the blue room as a setting.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Ane Hedvig Brøndum, 1880
  * Solskin i den blå stue, 1891
  * Fru Ane Brøndum i den blå stue, 1913
  