Narva, in the National Museum, a product which is rather
unsatisfactory from a coloristic standpoint, the artist has
shown the first and most brilliant act of the drama of
Charles XII. Cederström's woman Salvationist trying to
convert some bar-room habitués is one of his best paintings.

Carl Gustaf Hellquist, who died in Munich in 1890, was
a painter of historical themes who received much apprecia-
tion in Germany, where he spent most of his time. He lays
great stress on archeological details, and is sober and dry
in his coloring, but has painted some good pictures whenever
he has avoided that theatrical strain which has tainted so
many historical paintings. He is most successful perhaps in
The Religious Discussion between Olavus Petri and Peder
Galle. The Sacking of Visby is not wholly free from pose.

-150-