"I know that I sought the truth more seriously than most people who make paintings on a daily basis after prescriptions. It's true to really see nature and then paint as you see." (Olof Hermelin, in a letter from 1877) The above quote from 1877 reveals the seriousness and conviction with which Olof Hermelin attacked the artistic challenges. However, the quote could as well have been written by another Swedish landscape painter, Carl Fredrik Hill. The two colleagues seem at this time to have shared an intensity in their respective artistic skills that raised them to new levels. The similarity between Hermelin and Hill appears when comparing Olof Hermelin's "Promenating Couple" from 1877 with ...