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 | | Death has claimed these men and also J. Gyldén, an eminent astronomer; J. Agardh, C. Blomstrand, H. Nathorst, J. Rydquist, able botanist, chemist, agriculturist, and philologist, respectively; Pontus Wilmer, the most remarkable of the disciples of the philosopher Bostrm, and Victor Rydberg, the philosophical poet, novelist and polyhistor. |
 | | The truth is that Sweden possesses a number of eminent painters in every branch of painting, except the marine, which has been but sparingly represented since the days of Marcus Larsson. |
 | | It has been said of the Swedish painters, by way of complaint, that they are not, as their brethren in Denmark and Norway, in any marked degree national. |
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