A framed painting by Peder Severin Kroyer entitled "Portrait of Marie Kroyer".

Peder Severin Kroyer (23 July 1851 to 21 November 1909), known as P. S. Kroyer, was a Danish painter. He is one of the best known and beloved, and undeniably 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. Kroyer was the unofficial leader of the group. On a trip to Paris in 1888 he ran into Marie Martha Mathilde Triepcke, whom he had known in Copenhagen. They fell in love and, after a whirlwind romance, married on 23 July 1889 at her parents home in Germany. Marie Kroyer, who was also a painter, became associated with the Skagen community, and after their marriage was often featured in her husbands paintings.