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THROUGH SWEDEN. 167
Among the works of the dilettanti there were fome engravings
by Count Morner—they were happy imitations of the German
ftyle of mezzo tinto, which he learnt during his refidence at
Vienna, where he was in the fuit of the Duke of Sudermania.
Mademoifelle de Pollett, maid of honour to the queen dowager,
had a land{cape done in Indian ink, fketched in a very free and
happy manner. This lady is one of the beft educated and moft
accomplifhed women I met with in the Swedifh capital. She
is a native of Stralfund in Germany.
The two rivals in landfcape painting are, Colonel Skioldebrand
and Baron de Geer; but there was none of their productions this
eyear in the exhibition. My praifes of the firft might have the
appearance of partiality, and I therefore will abftain from them,
however juftly they might be beftowed; but I may venture to
fay of the fecond, that he has a delicate and pleafing pencil ; that
he draws the figures in a lively and correct manner, though he
has not fufficiently ftudied the great mafters to have learnt the
true fhades of perfpective, and the general effect of the whole.
I fhall enter no farther into any details; and, indeed, there
would not be much to add on this fubject which could intereft
the reader. I will only make this general obfervation, that un-
der the prefent reign the fine arts in Sweden are far from being
in a flourifhing condition. True genius and talents are not em-
ployed, but, on the contrary, difcouraged. Sergel, we have al-
ready mentioned, has retired under the preflure of a deep melan-
choly. Deprez is no longer engaged at the theatre ; and Belanger
too
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