Jan Thomas Njerve (7 June 1927 – 17 November 2014) was a

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painter. He was born in

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, and was married to opera singer

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. He attended the

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from 1946 to 1948, and also trained abroad. He is known as a landscape painter, among others with the work ''Spansk landskap'' (1960) owned by the

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, and as a portrait painter, among others of

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and

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