Jan Thomas Njerve

{{Short description|Norwegian painter}}

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

He was born in Eidanger, and was married to opera singer Kari Frisell. He attended the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts 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 National Gallery of Norway, and as a portrait painter, among others of Olav V of Norway and Harald V of Norway.{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Jan Thomas Njerve|encyclopedia=Norsk kunstnerleksikon|editor=|publisher=|location=|url=http://nkl.snl.no/Jan_Thomas_Njerve|language=Norwegian|accessdate=28 November 2014}}{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Jan Thomas Njerve|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=|publisher=|location=|url=http://snl.no/Jan_Thomas_Njerve|language=Norwegian|accessdate=28 November 2014}}{{cite news|title=Jan Thomas Njerve|work=Aftenposten|date=28 November 2014|page=28|author=Johansen, Jahn Otto|authorlink=Jahn Otto Johansen|language=Norwegian}}