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miralty. His mod admired production is hisgroupe of Cupid and 
Plyche, which combines the utmoft beauty of form, and the moR 
exquifite expreffion oi fentiment, in the happieft manner : it is 
defigned for the palace of Haga. Unfortunately Mr. Sergei is no 
longer to be numbered among the artiRs of Sweden: he has 
wholly retired from bufmefs, and from the world. Overpowered 
by a deep melancholy, he lives in a Rate of perfeCt folitude, and is 
not to be feen by any one befides his own domeRic. 
Mr. Charles Fred. Breda. This portrait painter muR be known 
in England : he was brought up to the art under Sir Jofhua Rey¬ 
nolds, and is Rill an imitator of his manner. Mr. Breda is happy 
in feizing and taking liknefles: he pofTefTes the art of giving an 
hiRorical air to his pictures by means of the acceflories of archi¬ 
tecture, landfcape, and drapery. His colouring is brilliant, but 
perhaps too glowing : his attitudes are fomctimes a little unnatural 
and overRrained, his defigns not always correCt, nor is his drapery 
eafy. He works a great deal, and very rapidly: his pictures are 
often, RriCtly fpeaking, nothing more than fketches. In his per- 
fonal deportment and manners he is very mild, amiable, and not 
in the leaR afluming. He has a collection of pictures, fome of 
them very fine ones. 
Mr. Nic. Lafrenfen, a painter well known in France, where 
many of his pictures have been engraved. He is a very pleafing 
artiR, and happy in his ideas; but fomewhat of a mannerift of 
the French ichool. 
Mr. Elias Martin, a landfcape painter: he would alfo be an hif-. 
torical 
