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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 590 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENEDICT See also:FOGELBERG (or BENGT) ERLAND (1786-1854)  , See also:Swedish sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Gothenburg on the 8th of See also:August 1786 . His See also:father, a See also:copper-founder, encouraging an See also:early-exhibited See also:taste for See also:design, sent him in 18or to See also:Stockholm, where he studied at the school of See also:art . There he came much under the See also:influence of the sculptor Sergell, who communicated to him his own See also:enthusiasm for See also:antique art and natural See also:grace . See also:Fogelberg worked hard at Stockholm for many years, although his See also:instinct for severe beauty rebelled against the somewhat See also:rococo quality of the art then prevalent in the See also:city . In 1818 the See also:grant of a See also:government See also:pension enabled him to travel . He studied from one to two years in See also:Paris, first under See also:Pierre See also:Guerin, and after-wards under the sculptor Bosio, for the technical practice of See also:sculpture . In 182o Fogelberg realized a See also:dream of his See also:life in visiting See also:Rome, where the greater See also:part of his remaining years were spent in the assiduous practice of his art, and the careful study and See also:analysis of the See also:works of the past . Visiting his native See also:country by royal command in 1854, he was received with See also:great enthusiasm, but nothing could compensate him for the See also:absence of those ' remains of antiquity and surroundings of See also:free natural beauty to which he had been so See also:long accustomed Returningto See also:Italy, he died suddenly of See also:apoplexy at See also:Trieste on the 22nd of See also:December 1854 . The subjects of Fogelberg's earlier works are mostly taken from classic myth- ology . Of these, "See also:Cupid and See also:Psyche," " See also:Venus entering the See also:Bath," "A Bather " (1838), " See also:Apollo Citharede," " Venus and Cupid " (1839) and " Psyche " (1854) may be mentioned . In his representations of Scandinavian See also:mythology Fogelberg showed, perhaps for the first See also:time, that he had See also:powers above those of intelligent assimilation and See also:imitation . His "See also:Odin"(1831),"See also:Thor" (1842), and" See also:Balder" (1842), though influenced by See also:Greek art, display considerable See also:power of See also:independent See also:imagination .

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historical figures, as those of Gustavus See also:Adolphus (1849), of See also:Charles XII . (1851), of Charles XIII . (1852), and of See also:Birger Jarl, the founder of Stockholm (1853), are faithful and dignified works . See Casimir Leconte, L'fuvre de Fogelberg (Paris, 1856) .

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