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Mr. Adams works at the larger cads in bronze, under the infpe&ion of Mr. Sergell:it was in his work-fhop, which communicates with that of Mr. Sergell, that the datue ofGudavus Adolphus (of which we (hall fliortly fpeak) was chizelled. This artid worksin bronze in the molt elegant and finilhed manner. The King poffeffes fome works ofthis defcription which would do honour to the bed artids in this line in France .

Mr. Rbim, a young Swede , is an excellent workman in bronze; he has made fourcandelabras for the King, which are of the highed tade and mod admirable finidr.

Mr. Pilau , a Swedifh painter, was, in 1791, director of the academy. This artid,already advanced in years, was employed on a large picture of nine feet by eighteen, re-prefenting the coronation of His Majedy : it was not then completed. He fhewed usfome defigns of the highed finilh, particularly one reprefenting the parliament of Vafareceiving its regulations from the King upon its edablilhinent. This painter has beenmuch employed in Denmark .

Mr. Lawrence , a Swede , well known at Paris, where he redded a number of years.Many engravings have been taken of this painter’s works: they are in high edeem.His ftyle is very graceful, and replete with tade.

Mr. Hollblad, a Swede , is famous for his fkilful manner of redoring damaged paint-ings. He had a number belonging to Count Brahe, one of which w r as Judith, holdingthe fword in her hand with which Ihe has cut off Holofernes’ head Mr. Ma'relieredimates it a work of Caravaggio . The head of Judith is beautiful. The baptifm ofClovis, a large picture of no great merit. There is another at Stockholm for l’ale, re-prefenting the fame fubjeCt, which is much fuperior ; it belongs to Count de la Gardie.It is prefumable that Mr. Hollblad ufes’a dmilar procefs with Picault at Paris; howeverthis may be he has been eminently fuccefsful: from a number of proofs of this we fhallcite but one; he has taken a ceiling painted on a wall, twenty-one ells long by fourteen*and fixed it in perfection on canvas.

Mr. Hillerjlrceum , a painter in Adolphus Frederic’s fquare*, on the fouth fide. Inthis fquare it was (the fame as was ufed for the caroufals) that the King, on occafion ofthe peace of 1790, difmiffed the citizens of Stockholm who had volunteered for theprotection of the town in ablence of the regular troops. This artid, in a picturewhich he has in his houfe, has reprefented this ceremony with excellent effedt. It wasintended for the city, but doubtlefs he will take a copy of it, the King, as is fuppofed,intending to have this. Mr. Hillerdrceum is in poffefiion of a number of works of dif-ferent defcriptions, among others of a likenefs of his daughter, with a mark on her bo-fom, where i'he was (truck by lightning, without receiving any injury: we enquired ifthe mark remained yet as reprefented in the painting, die affured us it did not; as diewas a very pretty girl we willingly would have had other proof befides her fimple affer-lion. This artid inhabited the houfe of a perfon who died but a fhort time before,leaving behind him a magnificent collection of pictures, of which we were unable toget fight, as they had been packed up to be fent to England for fale. It is a veryliandfome houfe, and v r as planned to have five-and-forty windows in the front lookingon the fquare ; but it was fcarcely more than half ereCted, and whether it will now befinidied or no appears doubtful.-

Private cabinets are very few in number, as the reader will be enabled to judge bythe enumeration of the whole, comprizing even thofe of medals, dones, &c.

*. In the neighbourhood of this fquare is the prifon for debtors, where it is rather a difficult mat ter for aperfon to gain admittance merely for the fatisfaftion of his curiofity ; it is however but little deferving ofattention.

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