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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XII.
and attention which artists who earn their living by the
pallet-brushes can seldom afford to bestow.
There are many admirable portraits of the Dutch
school; of works of historic interest there are few, and
those duplicates of the pictures contained in the Castle
of Frederiksborg. A small head, by an unknown artist,*
of the unfortunate Christian II., capped with a red
velvet beret, like Edward IV. of England, I must not
omit to mention. Few sovereigns appear to have been
more often painted, and well painted too, than Christian
II. and his family ; but that is easily accounted for by
his wanderings during his exile. Albert Dürer, in
a journal, mentions how he sat to him at Brussels,
and how he dined at a great banquet given in his
honour by the Regent Margaret, in company with
the Emperor and Queen of Spain. “The next day,
Lady-day, 1521,” says he, “ I drove to Brussels, sent for
by the King of Denmark. I gave the King of Denmark
the best of all my prints, worth five florins, but I spent
two florins eating and drinking, one stiver for dishes and
baskets; also I saw how astonished the people were
when they saw that the King of Denmark was such a
fine man, and they marvelled that he should travel
through his enemy’s country with only two people. I
also saw how the Emperor had ridden to Brussels to
receive him with great honour and pomp.” A collection
of engravings by Albert Dürer, very fine impressions, are
preserved in the museum of engravings at Copenhagen ;
they are all signed with the monogram of the painter,
* All they know is, that he followed in the suite of the Archbishop
who conducted Elizabeth of Austria to Copenhagen at the time of her
nuptials.
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