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TRAVELS 
artift who forced the attention of the whole company to his own 
picture, and talked about it to every one, and of nothing elfe. He 
was a moft conftant and punctual attendant at the exhibition, and 
regaled himfelf with the eulogiums which he extorted from others. 
This exhibition is at the houfe appropriated to the academy of 
painting and fculpture. There are nine profeftors belonging to 
this inftitution, and about four hundred ftudents. The academy 
diftributes annually three firft-rate and three fecondary prizes. 
The pupils who fhew the greateft proofs of genius are fent to 
travel in France and Italy at the expence of the academy. There 
are five apartments, fmall in fize, and very low in the ceiling, in 
which the pictures are put up with but little grace or propriety. In 
the middle one, which may be called the antichamber, becaufe it 
is through this that you enter into all the reft, the pictures fuppofed 
to poflefs the leaft merit are generally placed, and alfo the drawings 
and defigns of the fcholars. The chamber on the left fide of the 
hall as you enter, is defti.ned for the reception of the firft-rate pieces, 
as that on the right of the antichamber .is for that of ftatues, baflo- 
rclievos in plaifter, and the defigns of the fcholars. The fecond 
room is filled with a confufed aftemblage of paintings, defigns in 
architecture, plans of public .edifices, with w 7 hich are intermixed 
a number of portraits and landfcapes. Near to this apartment is 
a cabinet containing plans and models of new inventions, or pro- 
je<fts in mechanics. In this exhibition, not only the productions 
of native Swedes are difplayed, but alfo thofe of fuch members as 
are foreigners by birth : moreover, the works of the agrees, or 
ajfociates , 
