Heimdal överlämnar Brisingasmycket till Freja

New acquisition, September 2013: Competition entry by Nils Andersson Nils Andersson's painting Heimdal Returns Brisingamen to Freya is an evocative example of the images of ancient Swedish history painted in the mid-19th century, combining the modern and the ancient, classical antiquity and Norse mythology. The motif was chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts as the theme of its subject-…