The Wandering Brush of the North In the twilight of the seventeenth century, a painter named Peder Rublagh moved through the great cultural centers of Europe, leaving behind a trail of pigment and presence. His life was one of movement, a quiet migration from the northern reaches of the Kingdom of Denmark toward the sophisticated light of the south. He was a man of the era, a craftsman whose hands sought the patronage of the high-born,…