In the next generation, in the _Sturm-und-Drang_ period, _Anton Graff_, the Swiss, took the lead with his simple, domestic, honest, real portraits. It was a happy disposition of fate that Graff's activity just corresponded with the great period of the awakening of intellectual life in Germany, that Lessing and Schiller, Bodmer and Gessner, Wieland and Herder, Bürger and Gellert, Christian Gottfried Körner and Lippert, Moses Mendelssohn and Sulzer, and a long succession of other poets and scholars of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, found in him a portrait painter whose quick and agile hand left us their features in the truest and most authentic manner. What and how robust his art is, how clear and plastic the execution of the heads, how adroit and infallible the technique! Besides Graff, there worked in Dresden _Christian Leberecht Vogel_, likewise a most independent, picturesque, and sensitive artist, who, if only for his pictures of children, deserves a place of honour in the history of art in the eighteenth century. In the portrait of his two boys, in the Dresden Gallery, the naïveté of child-life is observed with such tenderness and rendered with such vigour as only Reynolds understood. The boys are sitting close together on the ground. One, in a brown frock, is holding a book on his knees, which the other, in a red frock, with a whip in his hand, is looking at. The thoughtful expression of the little ones is quite charming; the execution broad and strong, the colour treatment delightful and tender. In Munich lived the excellent _Johann Edlinger_, the most industrious of these sturdy masters, who were so modest and yet so capable. [Illustration: _Cassell & Co._ CHODOWIECKI. THE ARTIST'S NURSERY.] [Illustration: _Gaz. des Beaux Arts._ ANTOINE PESNE. PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF AND DAUGHTERS.]