The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-25
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. %

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same room in Memorial Hall. The jux.
Imposition, though accidental, is sugges-
tive of many contrasts, and a contrast Is
here, but Sweden does not, rs might be
expected, lose by it. That extreme
northern country with population no
larger than that ofthe state OF New York,
has on exhibition portrait of Count g
Won Rosen which loses nothing by CON-
parison with face painted by the re-
nowned Valesqucz on the opposite wall,
and while connoisseurs stand for mo-
ment in fashionable enhancement, be.
fore genuine Murrillo, they study long,
and return again 10 study, the superb
painting of 1.-THE Escape of the Royal
Family from the Burning Palace in
Stockholm, in the Youth of Charles the
Twelfth When will we get
over our absurd worship of antiquity and
! names, and cease to detract from the
f,me of our neghbors and contempora.
ries by the gushing exsltation of that
which our tastes tells us is inferior, of
that which is admired only through i'm.
memorial custom? Classic art has given
us the Venus de Medici; modern genius
| the Venus OF Thorwaldsen. The differ
ence Is that between prostitute and
Eve; yet, such is the dogmatism and DIES.
potsm of taste, that few dare express
their preference for the latter, and they
stultify their sense of beauty, for the sake
of that slavery of multitudinous ramltica
tions, called popularity.
The Escape of the Royal Family from
the Burning Palace is truly noble work.
Their aged grandmother is supported
BY the afterwards renowned Charles the
Twelfth, and his sister. They are pre-
coded by little princess carrying u
spaniel, and followed by attendants beag-
ing the more precious of the 70! al
treasures. AS the enforced processl""
hastens down the grand staircase, tin
actual movement of flight seems almO>
discernable, and yet there is no abandon.
ment to terror; certain dignity OF
royalty is preserved, and the youthful
| king was not more hero when he
hurled his resistlsss legions against the
superior forces of the MuscOvites than
when he preserved mis- GOODNESS in the
midst of this danger.
Specimens by nearly seventy Swedish
painters are displayed in Memorial Hall,
and In the Art Annex, some representing
with too much emphasis, the Influence of
the extreme French or Dusseldorf
schools, but there is also a third class
who, by judicious eclecticism, have sue
ceeded in combining the excellence OF
both. The painters of landscape and
nv
names as WInge, Walhhers, lorna,
Rydberg, A. Nordgren, Lindstrom, kel.
lenberg, Hermelin, Ekstrom, Brandclius,
Berg, Arsenius, Arborelius, Ankerkrona,
and Adelskald. "A gale on the coast of
Sweden" by the last named artist is a
strong piece, and excellent in coloring
and perspective. Mr.. Adelskald has
caught the spirit as well as the form OF
the wild and wasteiul ocean when the
breakers dash against the rock girt Shore.
Edward Berg, Professor of the Academy
of Fine Arts ut Stockholm, has four pic
lures, each one of which deserves special
notice; rs painter of landscapes and
marine views, he has few superiors. His
pine Forest" in the Art Annex is cs-
pecially fine. All his pictures are strong.
~ painted, evinclng study mainly OF
effects, but not an abandonment OF detail
work. Very different from the other
Swedish paintings, in subject and style,
are two paintings by II. Ankerkrona, OF
Stockholm. They are "Evening Prayer
in the Desert" and "View from the
Boundaries of Algiers." The actinic and
typographical contrasts between the
northern home of the artist and his
tropical study, have been keenly appre-
ciated, and the result is a wonderfully
soft and vivid delineatiOn OF the desert,
Arabs, and camels. A "Viking Fleet"
by f. Winge, of Stockholm, IS very
energetic picture, both IN subject ana
treatment. A long line of stout, awk-
ward crafts is seen coming over the
ocean, manned by the mailed and beard
ed seamen who so long held England
in subsection. In moonlight land
scape, by &. Wahlberg, a Swedish artist
at Paris is seen the influence of the
French school, and the strength OF the
artist is shown in an expansive and
pleasing effect sproduced without the
extraneous help of striking scenery. a
view Of Stockholm by &. w. Palm,
who may be called the hester OF Swed-
ish artists, is the antithesis OF the pre-
ceding picture in both style ana treat
ment. The port, shipping, and editices
are reproduced with photographic ac-
curacy, and with more than photograph
ic dIstlnctness.
Among the paintings of different
class attracting much attention from
both connoisseurs and the pub
lie is Malmstrom's "Dancc OF
Elves" The name, think is in
appropriate, since it is in no sense
dance, but representation OF rising
mist thick with the floating fairy world,
in the beautiful superstition of long ago,
were supposed TO inhsbit the vaporic
emenations of that latitude. A fox with
bis foot in the jaws of a trap, defending
himself against two skye terriers, that
have discovered his unhappy situation, Is
very fine and spirited piece by kyar-
Doe, the painter of that famous picture
seen so often in steel AID wood cuis-s
bitch chained upon floating kennel,
around which her young are swimming.
Two pictures by &. j.. Boklund, one
historic subject, "a consultation between
Gustsvus AdoIphus and three warriors,
the other, 81 Marauder," representing
the decent, upon poultry yard by a
hungry soldier, and his frantic pursuit
Of a fat cock, are both works OF merit,
illustrating the versatile talents of the
artist.
There are other paintings in this col
lection not inferior to those that have
been mentioned, but want of space for
bids my more than merely naming few
of them as: "a Hawk capturing Rab.
bit" by w. .. Engstrom; "a captured
Frenchman," (there is n woman in IT., by
A. &. HsIstrom; "a Mothers Grief" by
Miss w. Lagerholm; "The King of the
Children" by S. Nilsson; "Psrisian
Maid" by S. Persons, and 1.-THE Five
Foolish Virgins" by Miss Christine Post.
CA. S.