A Life in Portraiture and Landscape Clara Mørch was a Norwegian painter who received her early artistic guidance from Morten Müller. Her formal education was shaped by significant periods of study, including eight months in Paris as a student of Paul Flandrin and Charles Chaplin between 1874 and 1875. Following this, she studied under Knud Bergslien in Christiania. While her training encompassed both figure painting and landscape painting, she distinguished herself primarily as a portrait painter. Her works from the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by a highly detailed, realistic quality, o…