Like Gude, _Niels Björnson Möller_ devoted himself to pictures of the shore and the sea. Undisturbed by men in his sequestered retreat, _August Capellen_ gave way to the melancholy charms of the Norwegian forest. He represented the tremulous clarity of the air above the cliffs, old, shattered tree-trunks and green water plants, sleepy ponds, and far prospects bounded by blue mountains; but he would have made an effect of greater originality had he thought less of Schirmer's noble line and compositions arranged in the grand style. _Morten-Müller_ became the specialist of the fir forest. His native woods where the valleys stretch towards the high mountain region offered him motives, which he worked up in large and excessively scenical pictures. His strong point was the contrast between sunlight playing on the mountain tops and mysterious darkness reigning in the forest depths, and his pictures have many admirers on account of "their elegiac melancholy, their minor key of touching sadness." The Norwegian spring changing the earth into one carpet of moorland, broken by marshes, found its delineator in _Erik Bodom_. _Ludwig Munthe_ became the painter of wintry landscape in thaw, when the snow is riddled with holes and a dirty brown crust of earth peeps from the dazzling mantle. A desolate field, a pair of crippled trees stretching their naked branches to the dark-grey sky, a swarm of crows and a drenched road marked with the tracks of wheels, a tawny yellow patch of light gleaming through the cloud-bank and reflected in the wayside puddles, such are the elements out of which one of Munthe's landscapes is composed. Through _Eilert Adelsten Normann_ representations of the fjords gained currency in the picture market. His specialty was the delineation of the steep and beetling rocky fastnesses of Lofodden with their various reflections of light and colour, the midnight sun glaring over the deep clear sea, the contrast between the blue-black masses of the mountains and the gleaming fields of snow. [Illustration: BAADE. MOONLIGHT NIGHT ON THE COAST.]