Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-09-18


Exposition, even if it should accomplish no
other desirable object, will do this it will
help to teach us that there is another por-
ton of Europe than Germany, France and
Italy. upon which the tourist usually ex-
pends his vagrant energy, and, that far off
in that region which the ancients called
Scandinavia, there lives refined, erudlte,
and energetic people, who have kept
abreast with the moving world in the arrs,
sciences, and industries, but who, on ac-
count Of the sparseness of their population,
and certain isolation imposed by their
language, lack such audience as always
awaits the English, French, or German
production.
TIE SWEDISH ART COLLECTION
has been a surprise to all but few con-
noisseurs who we're not unfamiliar with the
names Bergh, Boryesson, Herzberg, Kjor-
Doe, Hermelin, Lindegren, Nordenberg, and
Ribbing. The most conspicuous picture in
the Swedish collection both on account Of
it's size and excellence is "The Burning of
the Royal Palace at Stockholm in the youth
of Charles the Twelfth" by j. Hockert.
The picture might be more properly called
the escape of the royal family from the
burning palace. Descending the magnif-
cent stair case, is seen the aged but still
regal grandmother, supported by Charles
the Twelfth and his sister, while young
er sister hastens before them bearing in
| her arms rescued poodle. They
are followed by ladies and gentlemen
of the royal household, some of whom have
snatched in the confusion Of flight, few
| of the more precious heirlooms OF the Roy
al palace, but who are mainly intent upon
escape from the flames. The subject is
powerful in conception and it is sustained
in the minutest details of its treatment.
The filial heroism Of the prince and
princess, as they hasten down the grand
staircase, but do not forget their royalty
even in the midst Of calamity, is, perhaps
the pivotal idea of the artist, but the pic
ture is strong in all its parts; the flame and
sitting smoke are intensely real, and the
majestic sweep of the broad staircase, with
out its tragic tableau and lurid back
ground, would be, in itself, picture. This
painting is effectively surrounded, as from a
desire for contrast, by six pictures which
are its antipodes in character. They are
"Spring" by @. E. Kanberg, a painting Of
the extreme French School, portraying the
vernal season of both nature and the heart,
green forest, wild pathway, and two
lovers. ga Wedding in Swedish Country
Church, by B. Nordenburg is
PAINTING OF THE DUSSELDORF SCHOOL
in which every detail Of the church interior
as well as of the wedding paraphernalia and
tableau is reproduced with Photographic
exactitude, while the faces of the happy
pair as well as of their aged parents, are
full Of the hopes and solemnity that beft
the occasion Preparations for festival
by Aug. Jernberg" is piece in still life of
very high order of merit; it would be en-
tirely superfiuous to label the uncooked
good things, wines, vegetables, meats, and
the canvas is fortunately out of reach Of
the cat. This artist has on exhibition mer-
: itorious pictures in "Market day in Dus-
} seldorf !" "The broken pipe, representing
, | the Respondent chagrin of an old peasant
over the fragments Of his too fragrant little
: clay companion and "Visitors in the Am
sterdam museum looking at Rembrandt's
| Night Watch" This picture within pic
ture is an effective contrast, representing
the difference Of coloring In the old and
new schools. Baron Hermelin, to whom
credit is due for the excellent arrangement
of the pictures in this collection, has few
} pieces on exhibition the best of which,
} think,is ga Fishing place near Stockholm. "
! This picture presents very happy compro-
, mise between the French and Dusseldorf
} schools, producing bold effect, and fine
perspective, without ignoring the verities of
detail. His "Winter-day in Sweden" and
his "Poor Peoples Grave yard" are both
good, but neither of these is so pleasing as
} his "First Snow" where the gorgeous lints
Of an Autumnal forest are seen through a
thin fall of the wintry element
Professor Berg, of the Art Academy,
Stockholm, has
NO LESS THAN EIGHT PICTURES
? on exhibition, not one of which is an infe-
rior painting. They are chiefly marine
views and landscapes tBirch wood in
Sweden" is his largest and perhaps best
picture it is of the French school but not
an extreme specimen. ''A Swedish Water
fall by the same artist, representing an old
mill, a mountain torrent, and an approach.
: ing storm and his "Fishing Harbor on the
coast of Sweden" also his "Interior view of
a Pine Forest deserve a more extended
notice than l have space to give them here.
l Dark Moments, by Baron G. Cederstrom
is strong picture representing an artist in
r penury; his subject has long since exhaust
ed his exchequer his room and all its &C.
cessories tell Of poverty, and the enthusi-
9 asst who dreamed Of millionaires camoring
a for his pictures, now, with face hidden in
, his hands, before his last unfinished paint
o ing, finds refuge in despair. The main
6 effect is much heightened by the strong,
stern, but benignant, face and pose of the
/ old serving woman who is looking at him
: over her shoulder as she leaves the room
} She pities him because he is a man, but ev-
identity feels her superiority in having COM
mon sense instead of genius.
A portrait of his father, by Count @. Won
! Rasen will hardly fail to be awarded prize
since it is, in the opinion of connoisseurs,
: inferior to none in Memorial Hall.
NOTICEABLE FEATURE
Of the Swedish Art Exhibition is the large
: number and general excellence of paintings
! by women. Miss Sophie Ribbing is here
/ with four pictures. Her genius seems to
be in juvenile portraiture, and her I" Garden
er's Children "Girl with Eggs" and
"Youug Girl with Grapes, are very sue
8 cessful and pleasing studies "Merrimsnt
, at Home" and "Girl with Orange" are
pictures of unusual merit. In the second a
charming four years Old clasps with infan
tile delight the fruit so rare in that latitude,
j, while in the first, three children with
hands clasped, forming circle, are engaged
' IN romping dance, while their grandfather
saws upon the violin. They are painted by
Miss Amalia Lindergren
Miss Agnes B)rgesson's Farewell" is
a parting scene, full of sentiment, with a
Young girl about to leave the luxurious
home of her parents for that OF her hus-
band The husband stands somewhat i'm
patiently by and there is little in his haugh-
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