International studio (21.1903/1904(1904))

and so [he does, no doubt. I do not think I can
be far wrong if I say that bis portraits of the king
now number very nearly a hundred, a great many
of which have gone to foreign courts as presents
from His Majesty, and I should not be at all sur-
prised to learn that some of them had found their
way to England. _
Mr. Osterman is, however, no exclusive specialist
in royal portraits : be seems, indeed, to have painted
quite all sorts and conditions of people, male and
female, high and low; and none badly, although,
of course, not all his pictures can be given equal
rank in respect to artistic value.

Apart from the many pictures of King Oscar,
one of which is illustrated on page 74, Mr. Emil

Österman's best work is to be found in the
portraits of Zk;%73 ^4., AZls-j C., AZ*. yi, AZ*. A?.,
AZ*^. Z., his .Ay/M/Z, and, the most prominent of
all, his AZ*. Z., which are, without exception,
all charming masterpieces in the difhcult art of
portrait-painting. _
A more dignified and reirned rendering of
human character, of the grand stateliness of
true simplicity, than the one given by the artist
in his portrait of AZ*. Z. cannot possibly be
conceived and far less surpassed. This picture
alone ought to secure for the painter a pro-
minent place in the very first rank oi the
world's Contemporary portrait-painters.

It would, however, be a very difHcult matter