LONDON.- Peder Balke’s Tempest (about 1862) goes on display at the National Gallery, London, in Room 44. This is the first painting by a Norwegian artist to enter the Gallery’s collection. The work has been generously presented to the National Gallery by Danny and Gry Katz. This is the first time that The Tempest has been publicly exhibited. Peder Balke (1804–1887) is one of the most original painters of 19th-century Scandinavia. Born on the Norwegian island of Helgøya, he attended art school in Christiania (now Oslo), before studying at the academies of Stockholm and Dresden. In 1832 he visited rugged, isolated northern Norway, an experience of primal nature that would affect his entire artistic career – and later travelled to London and Paris. Despite an important commission of 30 paintings for King Louis-Philippe, by the time of his death in 1887 Balke was entirely forgotten as an artist. It t