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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Backer, Harriet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | In the 1860s and early 1870s she took lessons in drawing and painting in Christiania (now Oslo) and also travelled extensively in Europe with her sister Agathe, a composer and pianist. |
 | | She copied works in major museums and took occasional art lessons; she later considered this experience to have been of fundamental importance to her artistic development. |
 | | Little Red Riding Hood (1872; Oslo, N.G.) is impressive in technique, and the early portrait of her sister, Agathe Backer-Grøndahl (1874; Holmestrand, Komm.), shows a refined colour scheme. |
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