artift who forced the attention o f the whole company to his own
piClure, and talked about it to every one, and o f nothing elfe. He
was a moil conilant and punctual attendant at the exhibition, and
regaled himfelf w ith the eulogiums which he extorted from others.
This exhibition is at the houfe appropriated to the academy of
painting and fculpturc. There are nine profeffors belonging to
this inftitution, and about four hundred ftudents. T he academy
diftributes annually three firft-rate and three fecondary prizes.
The pupils who ihew the greatell proofs o f genius are fent to
travel in France and Italy at the expence o f the academy. There
are five apartments, fmall in fize, and very low in the ceiling, in
which the pictures are put up with but little grace or propriety. In
the middle one, which may be called the aijtichamber, becaufe it
is through this that you enter into all the reft, the pictures fuppofed
topoffefs the leaft merit are generally placed, and alfo the drawings
and deligns o f the fcholars. T he chamber on the left lide o f the
hall as you enter, is deftined for the reception o f the firft-rate pieces,
as that on the right o f the antichamber is for that o f ftatues, baffo-
relrevos in plaifter, and the deiigns o f the fcholars. The fecond
room is filled with a confuted affemblage o f paintings, defigns in
architecture, plans o f public edifices, with which are intermixed
a number o f portraits and landfcapes. Near to this apartment is
a cabinet containing plans and models o f new inventions, or projects
in mechanics. In this exhibition, not only the productions
o f native Swedes are difplayed, but alfo thofe o f fuch members as
are foreigners by birth : moreover, the works o f the iigreesj or
officiates,
affociates, who, though they belong to the academy, have not the
fame privileges as members; and o f ftrangers, that is to fay, per-
fons who, without being either in the number o f members or affociates,
obtain leave from the prefident to exhibit their performances.
The number o f pieces difplayed at the exhibition o f J 8 0 0 ,
which I faw, amounted to one hundred and twenty-nine. Every
piClure was numbered, and the name o f the painter marked at the
bottom. Towards the clofe o f the exhibition, which lafts only
fifteen days, a printed catalogue is publiihed, in which all the
pictures are arranged according to their order and degree : lft.-O f
Swedifh members; 2d. O f foreign m em b e r s 3d. O f the affociates;
4th. O f tillaggning, ®r artifts, who were allowed to -ex hibit
their works without belonging to the academy. I ihall ob-
fcrve the fame order while I take a view o f the moft diftinguifhed
pieces, or thofe that drew moft attention in this exhibition, whether
juftly or otherwite.
SWEDISH MEMBERS .
Mr. John Tobie Sergei, whole name is well known among artifts
in all parts o f Europe: he is to be reckoned among the firft-
rate fculptors, and the only one in the North o f any great merit.
He ftudied at Rome, and is one o f thofc who has done moft honour
to the modern fcho o l: he has executed feveral works o f
great value. Not long ago he finilhed a ftatue in bronze o f Guf-
tavus I I I .; it is o f coloffal fize, and to be placed on a pedeftal in-
front o f the caftle, oppofite to the bridge that leads to the admiralty.