THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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Among the works of the dilettanti there were fome engravings 
by Count Morner—they were happy imitations of the German 
ftyle of mezzo /into, which he learnt during his refidence at 
Vienna, w 7 here he was in the fuit of the Duke of Sudermania. 
Mademoifelle de Pollett, maid of honour to the queen dowager, 
had a landfcape done in Indian ink, fketched in a very free and 
happy manner. This lady is one of the beffc educated and moll; 
accomplifhed women I met with in the Swedifh capital. She 
is a native of Stralfund in Germany. 
The two rivals in landfcape painting are. Colonel Skioldebrand 
and Baron de Geer ; but there w r as none of their productions this 
.year in the exhibition. My praifes of the firft might have the 
appearance of partiality, and I therefore will abftain from them, 
however juftly they might be bellowed; but I may venture to 
fay of the fecond, that he has a delicate and pleafing pencil; that 
he drawls the figures in a lively and correct manner, though he 
has not fufficiently ftudied the great mailers to have learnt the 
true fliades of perfpedlive, and the general effedl of the whole. 
I fhall enter no farther into any details; and, indeed, there 
would not be much to add on this fubjedl which could interefl 
the reader. I will only make this general obfervation, that un¬ 
der the prefent reign the fine arts in Sweden are far from being 
in a flourifhing condition. True genius and talents are not em¬ 
ployed, but, on the contrary, difcouraged. Sergei, we have al¬ 
ready mentioned, has retired under the preffure of a deep melan¬ 
choly. Deprez is no longer engaged at the theatre ; and Belanger 
too 
