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After completing her education, she returned to her home town in
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Southern Jutland on 4 October 1874, Agnes Smidt was the daughter of the farmer Claus Moltesen Smidt (1839–1913) and his wife Ellen Marie née Petersen (1833–1917). As a result of the talent she showed for painting, she attended the
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Smidt is also remembered for the efforts she made to take care of children. From 1916, she cared for five orphaned sisters and later adopted another foster daughter. After reunification, from 1921 she ran a
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