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Studio- Talk
years of illness he died at
Stockholm in 1906.
This exhibition, which
contained nearly all Joseph-
son’s works up to the year
1879, did not give us the
impression of a revolu-
tionary spirit. In the be-
ginning the young painter
walked in the footsteps of
the Dusseldorf School; the
Portrait of an Old Woman,
painted in 1874, is the first
which shows the happy in-
fluence of the old masters,
and is the work of a real
painter, well characterised
and full of sentiment. His
“ SAUL and david” (National Museum, Stockholm)
Some of her best work rather conjures forth visions
of Beardsley—one then feels as if a corner of his
mantle might have fallen upon her dainty youthful
shoulders. G. B.
BY ERNST JOSEPHSON
big historical canvas, Sten
Sture liberating Queen
iChristina brom the Convent of Vadstena, painted
for an academic prize competition, shows the hand
of the future colourist—it now belongs to King
Gustaf of Sweden. The superb copies after Rem-
STOCKHOLM.—The Swedish Art Society
(Sveriges Allmanna Konstfdrening) re-
cently organised an interesting exhibition
of the works of two Swedish artists whose
brandt’s famous portrait group The Syndics and
Raphael’s Inghirami portrait are perhaps the best
copies ever painted by a Swedish artist, so fully has
Josephson understood and interpreted these great
masters.
careers were broken by
insanity twenty-five and
thirty years ago, but who
both died within the last
few years—Ernst Josephson
and Carl Hill. The former
is perhaps the only artist of
the older generation—the
great generation in Swedish
art—whom the young
modern artists of to-day
consider worth their ad-
miration. Josephson was
born in Stockholm in 1851,
and studied at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Stockholm.
Afterwards he travelled for
some years in Italy, Spain,
France, and Holland, and
exhibited with much success
at the Salon in Paris. In
1888 his health broke
down, and after 1 eighteen
“LENGTHENING SHADOWS” BY FRANK TOWNSEND HUTCHENS
(See New York Studio-Talk, next page)
159
years of illness he died at
Stockholm in 1906.
This exhibition, which
contained nearly all Joseph-
son’s works up to the year
1879, did not give us the
impression of a revolu-
tionary spirit. In the be-
ginning the young painter
walked in the footsteps of
the Dusseldorf School; the
Portrait of an Old Woman,
painted in 1874, is the first
which shows the happy in-
fluence of the old masters,
and is the work of a real
painter, well characterised
and full of sentiment. His
“ SAUL and david” (National Museum, Stockholm)
Some of her best work rather conjures forth visions
of Beardsley—one then feels as if a corner of his
mantle might have fallen upon her dainty youthful
shoulders. G. B.
BY ERNST JOSEPHSON
big historical canvas, Sten
Sture liberating Queen
iChristina brom the Convent of Vadstena, painted
for an academic prize competition, shows the hand
of the future colourist—it now belongs to King
Gustaf of Sweden. The superb copies after Rem-
STOCKHOLM.—The Swedish Art Society
(Sveriges Allmanna Konstfdrening) re-
cently organised an interesting exhibition
of the works of two Swedish artists whose
brandt’s famous portrait group The Syndics and
Raphael’s Inghirami portrait are perhaps the best
copies ever painted by a Swedish artist, so fully has
Josephson understood and interpreted these great
masters.
careers were broken by
insanity twenty-five and
thirty years ago, but who
both died within the last
few years—Ernst Josephson
and Carl Hill. The former
is perhaps the only artist of
the older generation—the
great generation in Swedish
art—whom the young
modern artists of to-day
consider worth their ad-
miration. Josephson was
born in Stockholm in 1851,
and studied at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Stockholm.
Afterwards he travelled for
some years in Italy, Spain,
France, and Holland, and
exhibited with much success
at the Salon in Paris. In
1888 his health broke
down, and after 1 eighteen
“LENGTHENING SHADOWS” BY FRANK TOWNSEND HUTCHENS
(See New York Studio-Talk, next page)
159