The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

92 DENMARK diligence, but he wanted imagination, so that these works of his present little of interest. But in his portraits, his landscapes and his marines he is a great master. With a cool, clear and fine color, a. solid and carefid drawing his portraits often combine beauty and style. Plis landscapes and marines are all of them but small pictures, and somewhat overdone and affected; but they command respect for the thorough study of nature they reveal, and captivate through the delight for nature they all of them exhale. He depicts nature in its every day dress, he does not look for subjects thrilling with impressive sentiment; but whilst he saw prose only where others found Poetry signing to them, he found Poetry where others saw prose only. His pupils pursued, the same course. He understood to communicate to them his interest in and love of modest and simple subjects, the sense of whose value, lying dormant since the days of the old Dutch painters, had not yet been called forth in the other countries of Europe. The talented colorist Vilhelm Bendz (1804—1842) painted pictures of artists at their work, similar to those of Dantan in modern art, besides some splendid evening pictures depicting the life of his brother artists after work. Christen Købke (1810—1848), besides characteristic and spirited por- traits, has given us splendid pictures of the then very picturesque out- skirts of Copenhagen. The endeavors to create a national art found a. zealous spokesman in the able and influential biographer of art Hø yen, and were supported by the florishing state of Danish poetry at the be- ginning of this century. Landscape painting tried to give a characteristic and impressive illustration of Danish nature: one of the most success- ful in that respect was the sensitive artist and delicate draughtsman, f. T. Lundbye (1818—1848), still more valued, however, for his illustrations of animal life. The most prominent representatives of early Danish landscape painting are: P. Skov guard (1817—1874) who, in spite of his formal preciseness, is, as anile, less excellent in his bigger pain- tings than in his fresh and capital studies, and G. Rump (1816—1880);