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son, ITr. "Biick and Hr. Sergei, Init that the rest should be sold to 

 the member.s iiiul otliers at hull' a Kiksdaler apiece (about 2.s. '3(1.)." 

 On the same occasion a letter from Jiosliii was read, in w Inch lie 

 oiTered the portrait it selt'. "The Secretary received instructions 

 to thank him in the choicest language for this offer, which had 

 been received by the Academy with the greatest pleasure." 



As soon as the younger Linne received the print, he wrote to 

 Wargentin: — "1 thank you most obediently for the specimen of 

 my late father's portrait, of which I have given my mother hers. 

 It is extremely beautiful and well engraved ; it is a pity that it 

 appears so tilled out, otherwise it would probably have been 

 more like. Each time I look at it, at the first moment it seems 

 wholly like, but that disappears directly I look longer at it. What 

 about the Eoslin portrait? Can it be got back? It would be 

 most suitable if it were in the same building [the University] 

 where both the Rudbec-ks were formerly." 



"When this was written the writer was probably unaware that a 

 canvas had already been given to the Academy, and the picture he 

 asked about was that which Roslin took with him to Paris. In a 

 later letter, also to AVargentin, he says : — " That my late father's 

 ])ortrait has been given by Eoslin to the Eoyal Academy, I can 

 never say anv thing against, but am thereat extremely pleased." 

 ¥rom this it would seem that the younger Linne, when he heard that 

 Roslin had presented a portrait to the Academy, and when he did 

 not get back that which Eoslin carried ofP, thought the latter should 

 haTig in the University, for he could not object to another portrait 

 being given to the Academy, of which, it must be remembered, 

 Linne was one of the founders, its first president, and for 20 3'ears 

 its secretary. 



As regards the three Eoslin canvases. Prof. Tullberg comes to 

 the following conclusion : — Eoslin offered Linne when he met him 

 to paint his portrait gratuitously for his own sake, possibly also 

 with an idea of painting a replica to exhibit in Paris. He then 

 painted the three-quarter length, which Linne saw and admired. 

 Afterwards the idea just alluded to took a more detinite shape, and 

 as during his visit to Sweden he was unable to make the copy, he 

 took it with him to Paris after getting Linno's permission, 'i'here 

 it remained and nothing was done, and only after Linne's death 

 in January 3 778, did he begin to think about it. Eoslin therefore 

 did not trouble to paint a complete replica, but kept the original 

 and pleased himself by painting a head-aud-shoulders, which he 

 suggested to the E. Academy should be engraved, a suggestion 

 gladly received. It was this which he gave to the Academy ; the 

 latter, knowing that Eoslin had promised the portrait to Lijinc, 

 asked his son if he had any objection to the Academy accepting it, 

 upon which he replied, that he " was very pleased therewith." 

 Eoslin, however, considered he was bound to carry out the promise 

 made to Linne, and therefore painted the '' Gripsholm " portrait for 

 the family. It belonged to them until it was bought by Gustaf II L 

 and placed in the palace of Gripsholm, but when, it is uncertain, 



