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directly o r indirectly been influenced by French art. P. S. Krøyer's years of apprenticeship to M. Bonnat fitted him to becom e the foremost of ou r y o ung artists. As such he has everywhere gained the approval of .foreign critics, and he has had a very g reat influence on the young er painters. Krøyer is, unfortunately, not very well represented in the Royal Picture Gallery, and the same may be said of the greater num ber of those y o u n g Danish painters who are best known on the

Continent. The gallery possesses an excellent picture by the distin­ guished painter Viggo Johansen : " Evening in the A rtist’s Hom e". Lovers of art w ishing to make themselves more intimately ac­ quainted w ith the Da­ nish school, will have no difficulty in g etting adm ittance to two of

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the most im portant private collections Mr. H. Hirschsprung's , which contains specimens of all the most em inent Danish painters of this century, and Dr. Alfred Bramsen's, which represents the most talented of the young er generation of painters. Am ongst these are the brilliantly gifted Julius Paulsen, and the very original Vilhelm Hammershøj, who, in his pic­ tures, seeks the simplest, most delicate, and most refined effects, and often proves himself akin to Whistler. In the Collection of Sculpture in the National Art Gallery some excellently executed works by J. A.Jerichau (1816 —1883) —"The P an th er Hunter", “Hercules and Hebe" — are the most noticeable, along with a series of strikingly characteristic busts by H. V Bissen (1 798 -1868 .). - The C openhagen Galleries further contain an interesting

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