and as advisers to the government in questions of art. The government appoints the chairman and vice-chairman from among the elected mem- bers. Painting. The earliest painter of prominence in Norway waa J.C. C. Dahl (1788-1847). His productions of Norwegian landscapes still rank among the most beautiful in Norwegian painting. He died as a professor at the Dresden Academy of Art. The artists who followed most closely in J. C. C. Dahl’s footsteps are: Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842), Adolf Tidemand (1814-1879), and Hans Gude (1825- 1903), They studied at Diisseldorf, and the «Diis- seldorf school» came to influence that generation of Norwegian painters. Tidemand is famous for his paintings of Norwegian peasant homes, which he depicted with great affection and romantic feeling. Ejlif Petersen (1852-1929) and Hans Heyerdahl (1857-1913) settled in their youth at Munich in company with other Norwegian paint- ers, and soon rose to fame. Harriet Backer (1845- 1931) was the greatest woman painter Norway has had. Her interiors, in particular, are unex- celled. Kitty Kielland (1843-1914) was her talented contemporary. Erik Werenskiold (1855-) and Ger- hard Munthe (1849-1928) took part in creating the painting movement in Norway in the ’eighties, a movement which had extremely significant results. 65