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Chap. XXV.
HISTORIC PORTRAIT GALLERY.
373
flames. Professor Hoyne, who kindly accompanied me
to Frederiksborg, and made known to me the masters
—for there is no catalogue—received orders, in the year
1831, to arrange the gallery in chronological order,
putting aside all portraits of doubtful origin and
authenticity ; since which time little or nothing more has been
done.
In the billiard-room, adjoining the Riddersaal, hang
a collection of small octagonal portraits of each
successive sovereign and his queen, placed there after their
death: the earlier are by Dutch artists, Heinbach and
Getton; the later are by those of the period in which
the death of the sovereign took place.
Our list commences with Christian, first sovereign of
the house of Oldenborg, and his Queen Dorothea of
Brandenburg: these portraits are not original, but copies
of very early date (from frescoes), previous to the year
1500. Queen Dorothea is no beauty, and wears on her
head a strange head-dress formed of linen, with a sort of
gag of the same material across her mouth, such as is
still worn by the peasant women of the island of Læsø,
as well as in parts of Jutland, as a preservative against
the injury caused to their lungs by the “ flying sand.” *
The next portrait of merit is that of Christian Ill.f in
a black velvet beret of the period, side by side with
that of his Queen Dorothea, both by Binck, date 1550.
Of Dorothea of Saxony we know but little, save that
she refused the younger brother of her husband, Duke
John, after Christian’s death, a very wise determination
* Of Christian II. and his queen there are copies from
Hooernren-bout’s portraits in the archives of Brussels.
f With his motto, “ Aller von Gott.”
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