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fion of gilding and mafly fculpture disfigures rather than adorns
the building.
The fituation of this pile, on the banks of a fmall lake, is not
unpleafant. The palace contains a large collection of pictures, in
great confufion, among which I obferved a few not unworthy of
notice. The Crucifixion of our Saviour, by Andreas Peters, a
Danilh painter, in the reign of Chriilian the Fourth. The three
following were brought from Italy, by Frederic the Fourth: Saul
and David, after the death of Goliah, by an unknown hand; Abraham
and Melchifedec, by Caravaggio, difplaying the itrong contrail
of light and ihade, and that vulgar nature, -which charac-
terifes the works of that capricious painter; Jonas preaching to
the Ninevites, by Salvator Rofa, the figures as big as life, and
in the finelt ilyle of that great mailer 5 feveral tolerable paintings
of the Flemiih fchool, chiefly fcriptural hiilories.
One of the apartments contains a fuite of the imaginary portraits
of the kings of Denmark, before the converfion of the
Danes to the chriilian religion. In another room, I obferved the
whole length figures of the kings of Denmark of the houfe of
Oldenburgh, beginning with Chriilian the Firit, and ending with
Chriilian the Fifth, all originals. Of thefe the portrait of Chrif-
tian the Second is the moil ilriking, as it exhibits a fine expref-
fion of that melancholy, feverity, and cruelty, which formed fo
large a part in the character of that deteilable tyrant. A head of
his queen Ifabella, filler of -the emperor Charles the Fifth, reminded
minded me of her mild and amiable qualities ; of the meeknefs
and patience, and yet dignity with which ihe fupported the
harlhnefs and infidelities of her obdurate huiband in the timé of
his profperity; of the extreme attachment which ihe ihewed to
him in the hour of his difgrace; of her unwearied attentions
to foothe his difappointment, and to roufe him from his de-
fpondency ; of her refufal to accept a very honourable and advantageous
fettlement offered by the ilates of Denmark j and of
her noble anfwer, “ That ihe had rather live with her huiband in
baniihment, than reign without him*.” Shefurvived his depolition
only three years, and died in the palace of Ghent, in 1526.
Anne of Denmark, fiiler of Chriilian the Fourth, and queen of
James the Firil. Several of Charles the Firit, one in his princely
robes, when a boy about fifteen; and another by Vandyke,
when he was a young man.
The chapel is a very handfome apartment, but more remarkable
for its coillinefs than for its taile. The walls are hung with
the efcutcheons of the knights o f the Elephant, the firil order in
Denmark; as thofe of the gallery are with the efcutcheons of the
knights of the order of Danebrog.
The palace of Friedeniberg, about four miles from Fredericf-
borg, is by far the moil delightfully fituated; it Hands at a fmall
diilance from the lake o f Efferom, a piece of water about fifteen
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