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216 COPENHAGEN. Chap. XIV.
country in virtue and piety; behold a great monarch,
whose head is worthy to wear for a thousand years all
the crowns of the universe.” Awful flattery I but, like
the starling, she “ could not get out.” *
A miniature of Queen Anne of England and her
husband Prince George deserves notice. The portrait
of Anne, a gem of beauty, fat, fair, and pretty, with
pouting lips and lazy eye, in all the freshness of early
youth, gives promise of an indolent disposition easily
led. She could be peevish, too, at times. Prince
George, admirably wigged, a thorough gentleman; I
believe few people have an idea how very handsome
Prince George was in his youth—handsome as an
animal, with no expression or intellect depicted in his
countenance, t
Lastly, the enamelled portrait of Griffenfeld, the
celebrated minister, by whose advice Christian V. created
the titled nobility, to console the old families for the
loss of their feudal rights—a very wise coup d’état on
his part, foi’ fearfully were the earlier sovereigns
trammelled by the arrogance of their nobles; but like all
reformers Griffenfeld became unpopular, and his ruin was
soon compassed. $
* A portrait of Christian IV., by Eleanor Ulfeld, sold at an auction
for ten rix dollars three marcs ; one of herself for eighteen rix dollars ;
and that of Corfitz Ulfeld for twenty-five rix dollars ten skillings.—See
Catalogue of the Museum Elevenfold.
f In the Kobberstik Cabinet is preserved a curious engraving of
Queen Anne—though where the original be I know not—with the
motto, “ Je pourrez étre Reine et mere du Boi.”
I The power of the nobility must have been great in Ulfeld’s day for
him to have said to the Queen of France, “ There is no real nobility
in France, where the king can send a noble to the Bastile ; in
Denmark, on the contrary, he could not compel a nobleman to go out
of his own house.”
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