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Chap. XIV.
TAPESTRY.
223
in 1795, eight different portraits of Caroline Matilda, by
Angelica Kauffman and other artists, were consumed.
At the period of her disgrace they were removed from
the state apartments of the palace to a lumber chamber
in the upper story, and there perished in the flames.
The portrait of Caroline Matilda, which here hangs in
the cabinet of Christian VII., side- by side with that of
her mad ill-countenanced husband,* is unworthy of a
glance.
With the eighteenth century expires the good taste
and fine appreciation of art of the Danish monarchs:
the bijouterie and cabinet-work of the earlier period is
now replaced by the clumsy decorations, cotton
umbrellas, and dancing pumps of the late King Frederic VI.
But we must visit the Riddersaal, with its richly
decorated ceiling and its ancient tapestry, the work
of the brothers Van der Eiken. This tapestry, which
was made at Kiøge, five miles Danish distant from
Copenhagen, about the year 1690, represents the
victories of Christian V.: it is of admirable execution.!
* Two engravings of Christian VH., after Pilo, one as a little child,
and again as a youth, bear much resemblance to the queen his mother,
though the madness is already perceptible in his eye, and later cannot
be mistaken. Angelica Kauffman and Mrs. Ashby alone tone it down in
their portraits.
f Relative to the tapestry manufacture of Denmark, we give the
following extract from Fuller :—
“ The making of tapestry was either unknown or unused in England
till about the end of the reign of King James, when he gave two
thousand pounds to Sir Francis Crane to build therewith an house at
Moreclark for that purpose. Here they only imitated old patterns,
until they had procured one Francis Klein, a German, to be their
designer. This Francis Klein was born at Rostock, but bred in the
Court of the King of Denmark at Copenhagen. To improve his skill
he travelled into Italy, and lived at Venice, and became first known to
Sir Henry Wootton, who was the English Lieger there. Indeed there
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