This is a study for Krøyers portrait of the two Bendix brothers (Christensen no. 634). Jørgen was born in 1892 and later became an opera singer. Tyge was born in 1894 and became a painter and actor.
Rigmor Kjær (1869-1948) was the daughter of Anna Caroline Andrea Ancker and Peter Bernhard Kjær. In 1893 she married Ivar Kristian Wibroe Nyholm (1867-1947). Krøyer portrayed members of the family a number of times.