The Sick Sleeping on Helen's Grave, by Jörgen Sonne

easy to express them. Sonne had gone on his travels at an
early age and had completed a stage of his development in
Munich, and therefore was less trained in the use of his eyes
than Eckersberg's other pupils. On the other hand, he was
more of a dreamer and a poet. When he returned, he seized
the opportunity of realizing his youthful ambition to become
a battle painter. He took part in both our wars, and painted
battle scenes from them that were far more real than his
earlier more purely abstract productions in the same field,
although his treatment of the horrors of war was evidently
softened by the idyllic background of the battles, the placid
Danish countryside. His first contact with the life of the
Danish people had thus been made. Already romantically
inclined, he approached the life of the people from the
romantic side of its natural surroundings. He gave vent to
his love of mankind and his feeling for nature, not in a fore-
ground and a background respectively, but in a single all-
pervasive mood. He was most strongly attracted by the

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