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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XII.
coast of Norway. Here a new light broke upon the
Dutchman; accustomed to the formal scenery and
stagnant canals of his native land, fascinated by the
glorious aspect of the hordes and forests, he remained
many years in the country where chance had cast
him, and turned his talents from “ sprawling gods ” to
the study of the wild nature by which he was
surrounded. His works are almost exclusively to be
found in Denmark; and hve charming landscapes of
Norway’s wildest scenery are to be met within this royal
gallery.
A setting Sun in Switzerland, by Jan van Hackaert,
is another of Woodburn’s “ imperial pictures while,
by Ruysdael, a general favourite with all lovers of the
Dutch school, there are several charming
representations of scenes in the wild Ardennes, of torrent and
rock, with frowning heaven, menacing both man and
nature. One of these pictures has been engraved by
P. Schrobers. A group of flowers, freshly gathered, though
some hundred and fifty years since, by Van Huysum,
live and bloom immortal on the canvas—those old
Dutch flowers of bygone times, carnations, poppies,
narcissus, auriculas, and rosebuds, burst into healthy
blossom, with birds’-nest, snail, and butterfly, worth all
the orchidaceæ of the present century.
Of Lucas Cranach there are many curious and
interesting specimens; among them a portrait of Luther
and Catherine Bora, his wife.
In Dutch sea-pieces the collection is very rich; tlje
taste of Christian IV. and his descendants naturally
turned that way. The works of Dobbels, the master of
Backhuysen, are much esteemed and rarely met with,
and of him we have here one fine specimen. The pupil
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