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Chap. XLIII. J
CHRISTIAN LODBERG.
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Europe. It is difficult to say where they did not exteiM
their travels to, for in the Ethnological Museum at
Copenhagen exist several paintings of South Sea
Islanders, executed by a pupil of Rembrandt.
These young artists found good occupation for
their brushes in the never-ending epitaphia of the
churches, as well as in the family portraits in the old
manors, and private houses of the provincial cities of
Jutland. There are few of the better portrait-painters
who have not worked for the space of some years in
Denmark—Mieris, Denner, Schalken—unluckily the
names of the artists have seldom been preserved.
At Vosborg we have many portraits, chiefly of pastors
and their wives, in starched ruffs and most military
moustaches: among them one by Carl van Mander, of
Christian Lodberg, Bishop of Ribe, and private tutor
to our own Prince Consort, George of Denmark.
Many of these early Protestant worthies led a queer
life of it, giving, like many of their Romanist
predecessors, la farine (of their existence) au diable et le son
au bon Dieu. Christian, son of a peasant in the
province of Thy, was sent to school, and showed great
talents early in life. His studies completed, he set out
on his travels alone, and for want of cash served in the
Spanish army at Naples, in the wars which succeeded
the insurrection of Masaniello. He later fought under
the Great Condé, and on his return to his native country
took orders. By means of powerful interest he
became appointed tutor to Prince George, whom he declares
to have been most amiable, but he never would or could
learn anything. He accompanied the prince on his
travels through the various courts of Europe for the
space of four years, during which time he kept a most
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