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SWEDENBORG’S PORTRAITS. 1197
to the Gallery in the Castle of Gripsholm by Count Carl Gylden
stolpe, Chamberlain (Öfwerste-Kammarjunkar) from Ulfåsa." Carl
Eduard Gyldenstolpe, who died in 1852, was married to a daughter
of Eleonora Wilhelmina von Höpken, daughter of Senator von
Höpken, and he seems to have obtained the picture by inheritance.
According to Eichhorn (see above in no. 3) it was painted by Kraft,
the elder, who came to Stockholm in 1768. The picture was con
sequently painted between 1768 and 1770. A copy of this picture
painted in oil was bought in America by Sampson Reed, Esq. of
Boston. The editor of these Documents had another copy in oil
taken of it in 1870, at the request of Dr. Forbes of Brooklyn, by
whom it was presented to the American Swedenborg Society. He
has also in his possession a photograph of the original painting,
retouched by a first-class artist, which has since been published by
Mr. James Speirs of 36 Bloomsbury Street, London, and also by
Ohm in Hamburg.
5. The portrait of Swedenborg, which is at present in the custody
of Daniel Lamotte Esq., Wilmington, the State of Delaware, United
States of America. This portrait was conveyed to America by
Mr. F. W. Schaff through the agency of Mr. C. D. Arfwidson, the
American Consul in Stockholm, who bought it on behalf of Mr. Schaff
from Carl Delén, the well-known New Church printer and publisher
in Stockholm. Respecting the origin of this portrait Mr. Delén
made the following statement to Consul Arfwidson: "After Sweden
borg’s decease his house was bought by a tinsmith of the name of
Lemon; and the portrait which hung in Swedenborg’s bed-chamber
was sold to me before the year 1790." In a letter to Mr. J. A. Brodell
of New York, who acted as a mediator between Mr. Schaff and
Consul Arfwidson, the latter gentleman furnished the following
additional particulars. "The portrait has been three times copied
in oil by Mr. Way, Professor Breda, and Professor Sandberg, and
it has been lithographed once." Mr. Schaff imported the picture in
order to have an engraving taken from it, and under a promise
which Mr. Brodell obtained from him he afterwards sold it to the
Central Convention of the New Church, which existed in America
until about 1853. The Central Convention placed the picture in
the custody of three trustees, of which Mr. Daniel Lamotte, Sen.
and the Rev. W. H. Benade of Pittsburg, are the survivors. On a
close comparison of this portrait with nos. 3 and 4, this seems to
be the best likeness of Swedenborg, as it contains the essential
features of those two portraits, and reconciles their apparent dis
crepancies. Artistically no. 4 is the best of the three pictures, but
no. 5 is the best likeness.
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