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160 TRAVELS:
miralty. His moft admired produ@tion is his groupe of Cupid and
Pfyche, which combines the utmoft beauty of form, and the moft
exquifite expreffion of fentiment, in the happieft manner: it is
defigned for the palace of Haga. Unfortunately Mr. Sergel is no
longer to be numbered among the artifts of Sweden: he has
wholly retired from bufinefs, and from the world. Qverpowered
by a deep melancholy, he lives in a ftate of perfect folitude, and is
not to be feen by any one befides his own domeftic.
Mr. Charles Fred. Breda. This portrait painter muft be known
in England: he was brought up to the art under Sir Jofhua Rey-
nolds, and is ftill an imitator of his manner. Mr. Breda is happy
in feizing and taking likneffes: he poffefles the att of giving an .
hiftorical air to his pictures by means of the acceffories of archi-
tecture, landfcape, and drapery. His colouring 1s brilliant, but
perhaps too glowing: his attitudes are fometimes a little unnatural
and overftrained, his defigns not always correct, nor is his drapery
eafy. He works a great deal, and very rapidly: his pictures are
often, ftridily {fpeaking, nothing more than fketches. In his per-
fonal deportment and manners he is -very mild, amiable, and not
in the leaft affuming. He has a colleQion of pittures, fome of
them very fine ones.
fir. Nic. Lafrenfen, a painter well known in France, where
many of his pictures have been engraved. He is a very pleafing
artift, and happy in his ideas; but fomewhat of a mannerift of
the French {chool.
Mr. Elias Martin, a land{cape painter: he would alfo be an hif-
torical
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