A Life Painted in Light: The World of Peder Severin Krøyer Peder Severin Krøyer, a name perhaps less instantly recognizable than some of his Impressionist contemporaries, nevertheless occupies a pivotal position within Scandinavian art. Born in Stavanger, Norway, on 23 July 1851 to Ellen Cecilie Gjesdal, Krøyer’s early life was marked by an unusual upbringing; raised not by his biological mother but by her sister and brother-in-law, the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, he found himself transplanted to Copenhagen and immersed in a world of scientific inquiry alongside artistic cultivat…