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THROUGH SWEDEN. 167
CHAPTER IX.
The annual Exhibition of Piétures at Stockholm—Academy of Paint-
ing and Sculpture—Account of fome diftinguifhed Painters, and
their Productions—Some Works of the Dilettanti.
"A NHE exhibition of pictures at Stockholm every year, in the
month of February, is a fubject of elegant amufement as
well as inftruction. It is open to every one, and nothing is paid
for admittance. Here the gentlemen and ladies of Stockholm
affemble in crowds, in order to encourage, by their approbation
and applaufe, the efforts of genius. It is no fmall praife to fay of
this collection, that it is well worthy to be feen by foreigners of
every country as well as Swedes. Here is perceived, at one view,
the ftate of the arts in Sweden; and you are enabled not only to
form fome opinion of the powers of the artifts, but alfo of the ge-
neral tafte and judgment of the nation. Every one declares his
fentiments with regard to the pieces without referve, though there
be always: fome lady or gentleman who takes the lead, and directs
the general tone of praife or cenfure. What is not a little curious,
the painters themfelves are frequently prefent, and very bufily em-
ployed in attempts to guide the public judgment, I noticed one
artift
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