. Art and artists of our time . THE TRANSPORT OF THE BODY OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS FROM THE HARBOR OF WOLGAST,JULY 15, 1632. FROM THE PICTURE BY GUSTAV HELLQVIST. peculiarities to mark his nationality. He began his stirdies with a decorative-painter andlater entered the Academy at Stockholm, finally making his way to Munich, where he livesand works. His earliest picture, an unimportant episode in the religious discords of Swedenand Norway, is owned by our ]\fetropolitan Museum of Art, and gives a good idea of hisstyle when he was under the influence of Baron Henri Leys—not as a pupil but as an ad-
. Art and artists of our time . THE TRANSPORT OF THE BODY OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS FROM THE HARBOR OF WOLGAST,JULY 15, 1632. FROM THE PICTURE BY GUSTAV HELLQVIST. peculiarities to mark his nationality. He began his stirdies with a decorative-painter andlater entered the Academy at Stockholm, finally making his way to Munich, where he livesand works. His earliest picture, an unimportant episode in the religious discords of Swedenand Norway, is owned by our ]\fetropolitan Museum of Art, and gives a good idea of hisstyle when he was under the influence of Baron Henri Leys—not as a pupil but as an ad-mirer. It represents the disgraceful entrance of Bishop Sonnanvader and the Provost Knut ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 547 into Stockholm in September, 1526. The two unfortunate men, seated on miserable hackswith their faces turned to the horses tails, are entering the city accompanied by a jeering andinsulting crowd. As it was impossible to extract any moral from such an unseemly spec-. AT CHRISTMAS-TIME. FROM THE PAINTING BY GUSTAV HELLQVIST. tacle, it may be thought hardly worth painting. Nor can much more be said of our picture, The Transport of the Body of Gustavus Adolphus from the Harbor of Wolgast to Stock-holm. It is an academically painted subject, but while perhaps it drives in the trite lessonof the uncertainty of human greatness, it never seems quite the fair thing to do by a brave 348 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. man, to choose the hour of failure and defeat as a theme to commemorate. In the small bitfrom peasant-life which we copy, Hellqvist shows more natural, and seems more within thetrue bounds of his talent. These children have been to the wood to cut a tree for Christmas;they are enjoying the merry sledge-ride home, little brother manfully pushing, and his sister,well muffled up, with an eye to the tree that rests on the sledge before her. The air is full of
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