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Eckersberg’s productions, which are both abundant aud valuable,
are almost exclusively of Norwegian subjects. He was especially
happy in his representation of bare mountain scenery; and
«Høifjeld» (Highland), in the National Gallery in Kristiania is one
of his most important pictures.
Among other Norwegian painters of this generation may be
mentioned Morten Müller (bom 1828) — whose favourite subjects
are Norwegian coast-scenes, and above all Norwegian pine-woods —,
Erik Bodom (1829—1879) — whose partiality was for deep, silent
mountain-tarns overshadowed by mountain-ridges —, and G. A.
Mordt (182(5—1866).
Three of the artists of this generation studied and worked
elsewhere than in Düsseldorf, namely, the clever animal and
portrait painter, Sigvald Dahl (bom in Dresden, 1827, and still
living there), a son of Professor J. C. Dahl, Franz Bøe
(1820—1891), the Bergen flower, fruit and still-life painter, and Johan
Jakob Bennetter (born 1822), a marine painter who studied in
Paris.
In figure-painting, the tradition begun by Tidemand was
continued by Knud Bergslien (born 1827), a peasant lad from Voss.
He has painted several historical pictures, among which his
«Birkebeinske skiløbere flygter over fjeldet med Haakon Haakonsson som
barn» (Birkebeiners Crossing the Mountains on Ski with the Child
Haakon Haakonsson) is the best known. He has also painted
portraits, and undertook the management of the art-school in
Kristiania after Eckersberg’s death.
Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831—1892) is an artist who has often set
great aims for his art, and is one of the few Norwegian historical
painters. He belongs to the Düsseldorf school, but has also been
influenced by French art. His best known works are on subjects
from Scandinavian mythology and legend, especially «Valkyrien»
and «Aasgaardsreien». He has also painted historical pictures,
scenes from military life, hunting scenes, and portraits.
V. St. Lerche (1837—1892) also belongs to this set of
Düsseldorf painters. In his numerous pictures of every-day life of the
Rococo period and the peruke age, and still more of cloister life,
he has displayed a talent for epic art, and a genial humour that have
made his pictures popular. To the same period belong also Aasta
Hansteen (born 1824) who soon gave up her portrait-painting
for literature —, the genre-painter, Mathilde Dietrichson (born
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