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THROUGH SWEDEN. 165
He is the beft portrait painter in Sweden after Breda, and in the
minuter parts of execution he fometimes furpaffes him. The beft
of his portraits that I have feen, is that of Governor Uglafs. Al-
though the figure be ftiff, as indeed all his pictures are, it poffeffes
much animation and expreffion. The hands are done with the
pencil of a mafter ; and the velvet drapery is worthy of the fatin
of the Chevalier Vanderwerf. His Ariadne of 1799 was unna-
tural, ill defigned, and finifhed in a flovenly and taftelefs manner.
The nakednefs of the figure was the only circumftance that flat-
tered the eye, and drew the applaufe of the fpectators.
FOREIGN MEMBERS.
The works of foreign members do not, ftrictly fpeaking, enter
into an account of the ftate of the arts in Sweden; but as they
appeared at the exhibition, and as fome of thofe members are
refident in Sweden, I cannot well avoid faying fomething of their
productions.
Mr. Inel, director of the royal academy of arts at Copenhagen.
This painter makes a noife in the North that is incredible: he 1s.
looked upon as a prodigy. Of portrait painters he is confidered
as the ve plus ultra, and his pictures are regarded as models of
the art. The encomiums beftowed on this man appeared to me
fo exceffive and difgufting, that I cannot help introducing in this
place the remarks that were made on him by a great Italian con-
noiffeur, who had feen many of his productions, and was per-
fectly acquainted with his manner. “ Inel,” obferved he, <‘ is
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