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164 ‘TRAVELS
but a fingle thip in front of the piece, which covers and hides all
the others. | :
Mr. Lewis Belanger, firft painter to the king of Sweden. After
refiding feveral years in Italy, where he applied himfelf to the
ftudy of architecture, he went to and continued fome time in
England ; where there is ftill to be feen a number of prints taken.
from his pictures in body colours. He is a land{cape painter of
no fmall merit: his touch is light, and produces a pleafing effect :
he has a good imagination, and makes an excellent ufe of body
colours. ‘There is no artift’in Sweden that excels him in his line
of painting. He is now engaged in a very interefting work,
namely, @ picture/que Tour through Sweden, which is engraved
under his own direction, and of which fome plates have already
appeared at Stockholm, by an engraver whom he carried with
him thither, of the name of Cordier. On his arrival in Sweden
and prefentation to the king, he was honoured with the title of
firft painter in his majefty’s fervice; and, I believe, he has ob-
_ tained permiffion to make drawings of all the ports in Sweden ;
which will form a very curious collection, efpecially as they are
done by the hand of fo excellent an artift. His diftinguifhed
merit, foon after his arrival, excited envy and raifed him a num-
ber of enemies. |
Mr. Weftmiiller. There was nothing of this painter in the ex-
hibition of the year mentioned (Feb. 1800) ; but there had been
an Ariadne by him in that of the preceding year., which was much
talked of, and confirmed the reputation he had already acquired.
He
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