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Yorkshire. Solander was a Swede by birth. There 

 are several little wax and other medallions about, and 

 a black silhouette or two, and an old pewter medal of 

 Rudbeck, evidently highly prized. 



More interesting to the visitor are the portraits in 

 pastel of the four pretty daughters of Linnaeus, done 

 probably by Lundberg le roi des pastels, as Queen 

 Louisa Ulrica calls him. How was it that in that 

 artificial age, the century of mannerism, Romney and 

 Reynolds, and Gainsborough especially, and others, 

 painted youth and innocence so well? Was it a 

 protest ? 



These fresh young faces people the empty house, 

 that else would be full of ghosts. Pontin is mistaken 

 in saying there is no portrait of the son : there is one 

 in pastel, like those of the mother and the girls, only 

 Carl's looks as if it had been rubbed, or hung up in 

 the damp in another room perhaps. This half-effaced 

 portrait of Carl is very like the mother, who is a plain 

 middle-aged woman. Her portrait is also faded, so 

 perhaps that part of the wall is damp. The eldest 

 daughter, Elizabeth Christina, is very like her, showing 

 what Elizabeth Moraea was like when she first captivated 

 Linnaeus. It was said Lisa Stina excelled her brother 

 in every sort of knowledge, and had written some works 

 on botany. The second girl is also like her mother and 

 sister, only prettier; she is also very like grandpapa 

 Moraeus. The third is like Linnaeus. These three 

 have brown eyes, and are good-looking, fine girls. The 



