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The subject is shown in the base exhibition Uddevalla of all time, Bohusläns museum, Uddevalla. In an instruction to book investigators “To the person who is going to work out my estate” the donor writes: The two portraits, who hang on each side of the mirror imagine Mrs Maria Gröning and her son Oskar Sjögren. Mrs Gröning was born Ekelund and married 3 times, 1 Sjögren, 2 Nordlöf and 3 Gröning. All the men voro tannery and bedrevo their profession in the yard on the corner of the Great Ny- and Kvarnberg streets. The Portrait School is left to the Uddevalla Museum." The drawing should last be made in 1848 and contemporary with the portrait of the son Johan Oskar Sjögren (1820 - 1848). Maria Gröning is then 52 years old. Maria Gröning, (née 6 November 1796) was the daughter of Saddle-Master Jacob Ekelund and Elisabeth Broström in Uddevalla. She died between 1840 and 1880. Maria Ekelund married three times the tannerist in Uddevalla; as the Virgin Maria Ekelund, aged 22 on 11 December 1819 with the chambermaster Andreas Sjögren (1786-1821), as the chamberlain Maria Sjögren aged 26 on 25 October 1823 with the carduan maker Per Nordlöf (1792- 1834-09-02), dead in cholera and as a single Maria Nordlöf aged 40 on 3 June 1836 with the carduan maker Anders photograph UMFA53226: 1937 Maria had a son from her first marriage: Oskar Sjögren (1820 - 1848), see portrait UM005719. In the second marriage (Nordlöf) she gave birth to seven children: Sophia Eleonora (1824-08-07); Mathilda Josephina (1826-03-12), Carl Edvard (1828-04-17); Sophia Fredrika (1829-09-24 -1901); Maria Albertina (1831-12-11); Carl Fredrik (1833-03-19) and Paulina Amelia (1835-01-24). In the third marriage (Gröning) three children were born: Anna Maria (1837-02-28); Josefina Fredrika (1838-08-21-1901) and Hilma Albertina (1840-07-17) Anders Magnus Gröning was a fellow dancer, a municipal man and a member of the Drätsel-Commission (DC) and the Poverty Care Board. Donated to the Uddevalla Museum by the school teacher Maria Jacobsson 89 years old, died in Uddevalla in September 1953; see a copy of the deed of death in appendix. She writes there: “The two portraits, who hang on each side of the mirror imagine Mrs Maria Gröning and her son Oskar Sjögren.” Folk school teacher Anna Maria (Mimmi) Jacobsson (1885 - 1953) was the foster daughter of the Nordlöf family and is buried in the family grave Sjögren-Nordlöf and Gröning in the Eastern cemetery in Uddevalla. From the Nationalencyclopedia Internet 2010: Karduans, one of the four tanneries that were part of the Swedish crow order. The taddy maker made not only quad leather, but also other thin leather qualities for i.a. bookbinding and finer shoe clothing. The raw material was sheepskin, goat and calf skin. Karduan (after the city of Côrdoba, Spain, lat. Corduba), leather with a fine vegetable, with a sumac tanned leather, usually made of goat skins. It is often black, but can be colored in many colors, resembles marokish and the safia but has a matte surface and chagrinsed (knotty) knife side. Karduan is used for shoes, briefcases, bags, etc. See two badgers from the same family, UM006150a and UM006150b.