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ively Scandinavian in their inspiration. The Danish display was the largest of the three. Several genres , by Professor Carl Bloch, were the most attractive pictures in the collection. For example, a girl sitting in the candle-light was painted ivith exceptional fidelity, and was remarkable for truth of the light effect. Two or three comical incidents in the life of the monks were also beautifully painted and full of expression. The marines, as may he remarked also in the displays of Norway and Sweden, were painted with more nautical knowledge than feeling for art, and, with one or two notable exceptions, were of little interest. In Anton Melbye’s marines was seen strong color and well drawn wave forms, with a good sentiment of the picturesque. The quieter and grayer canvases of Carl Sorensen are painted ivith almost ecpial skill but less strength of effect.
A very large and gothic illustration, of an event in the life of King Erich XIV., inspired in treatment by the faults of Baron Leys, not strong in color but with a certain force of expression, occupied a prominent place in the Swedish gallery. The author, Count George von Bosen, exposed several other less pretentious canvases, almost the only noteworthy figure pieces in the collection. A very hard and somewhat crudely colored market scene in Düsseldorf, by A. Jernberg, with one or two smaller pictures, maybe ranked as the representative genre. Alfred Wahlberg’s landscapes were superior to anything shown in the pavilion, and were hardly rivalled by similar works in the other halls. TIis Motive from Wcst- gotland is strong in color and abounding in a fine sentiment unique among his compatriots. Quiet water, wfitli marshy islands, a clump of trees in the middle, with stragglingbirches stretching out their branches on all sides, a charming bit of hillside distance and a bright airy sky; this is the landscape briefly described. Broadly painted, with a firm drawn and well-massed foliage, the picture gives all the multitudinous twinkle of the trees, the complex reflections of sky and foliage and without a detail, yet all there with the freshness and brightness of nature. Wahlberg does not so much account for the phenomena of nature as suggest the same as they impress him. The qualities of light and its charming play among the foliage, this is his especial delight.