Skagen Painter Peder Severin Kryer favored naturalism along with Norderhov and the artist Ossian Elgstrm studied with in 1907.
Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann, (31 March 1843  22 June 1917) was a Danish painter. 
 He was a part of the Danish artistic generation in the late 19th century, along with Peder Severin Kryer and Theodor Esbern Philipsen, who broke away from both the strictures of traditional Academicism and the heritage of the Golden Age of Danish Painting, in favor of naturalism and realism. 
 He is one of the best known and beloved, and the most colorful of the Skagen Painters, a community of Danish and Nordic artists who lived, gathered, or worked in Skagen, Denmark, especially during the final decades of the 19th century. 
 Elgstrm studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts from 1906 to 1907, and then with Kristian Zahrtmann in 1907 and with Christian Krohg in 1908. 
