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37Ö
FREDERIKSBORG.
Chap. XXV.
and gave it to the nation, and came to his aid, lending
him the sum of 50,000 specie out of her savings.*
So good a manager was she that she died worth
upwards of 2,000,000 of ready money, and was accounted
the richest queen in Europe, according to Sir James
Howell, who was English minister to Denmark at the
time of her death.!
I can well understand King Christian VIII. never
visiting Frederiksborg without exclaiming, “Now I
must go upstairs and pass half an hour in the society
of Queen Sophia.”
Here is also an admirable portrait of her son
Christian IV. by the same artist, taken at the age of twenty.
The earlier portraits of this sovereign by Peter Isaacs, of
which we have one hanging in the Riddersaal, together
with his queen, painted at the period of his marriage,
as well as others, of which engravings still exist in the
Müller collection, though the originals have disappeared,
are far more flattering to his personal appearance than
* Queen Sophia seems to have been the constant companion of her
son in his journeys through his kingdom. In Christian IV.’s journals
of the years 1614 and 1615 there are frequent notices of “ Drog jeg
met Frue Moder fra Frederiksborg til Roeskildeand again, in the
‘ Tegne Bok ’ of Jensen the blacksmith, we find :—“ 1623, Sept. 29th,
came the king and his mother, Queen Sophia, with the young prince
and his brothers, to Elsinore ; at the same time, the king’s mother
was borne on a little chair, with a canopy over it, through the town to
Lundegaard’s garden.”
t Tliis picture was the property of her daughter, the Princess Augusta
of IIolstein-Gottorp, a great patroness of the arts, and was discovered
by Professor Hoyne hanging in the Riddersaal of the palace of Husum,
together with many others—the room at that time used as a granary.
To the love of this princess for the arts is to be attributed the
recognition of many portraits in tlfis historic Gallery ; for she caused a
genealogy of the alliances of her house, as well as of her progenitors,
to be executed from original paintings, which now remain as archives
to the existing collection.
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