1880. Genre and history painter, son of the portrait painter Hans
H. (1769–1828), pupil of Christopher V. Eckersberg; was in Italy
in 1835–41, and painted many scenes from popular life; after his
return executed mythological scenes in fresco in the University of
Copenhagen. Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1864, professor, and
since 1873 vice-director. Works: Ægir’s Banquet, Copenhagen Gallery;
Reading from Ariosto (1839); The Housewife (1859); Interior of Mill
near Hellebek; Assembly of the States at Christiansborg.--Sigurd
Müller, 127; Weilbach, 229.
HANSEN BALLING, OLE PETER, born in Christiania, April 23, 1823. Genre
and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin and Copenhagen Academies,
entered the army in 1848, went to America in 1856, took part in the
Civil War as commander of a regiment of volunteers, and afterwards
returned to Christiania, where he portrayed especially officers of
the Norwegian navy. Works: Cavalry Skirmish near Rendsburg; Portraits
of General Grant and several other American generals.--Weilbach, 246.
HANSONN, CHRISTIAN HEINRICH, born at Altona in 1791, died there,
May 1, 1863. History and portrait painter, first instructed in
Hamburg; tried portrait painting successfully, went to Stralsund,
and afterwards to Vienna, whence, with the Danish painter Bravo,
went to Rome, where he improved through intercourse with Reinhardt,
Koch, and Cornelius; after a short visit home, he passed six years
in Italy, and then resided in Munich in 1830–45. In 1845 he painted
four large altarpieces in Austria, before going again to Italy,
whence he returned to his native town in 1850. Works: Youth at Nain;
Magdalen; The Fisherman--after Goethe (1833); Madonna; Christ on
Mount of Olives; Bathing Girls; Portraits of Baron von Aretin, of
the painter Morgenstern, and many others; Scenes from Mediæval Life
in German Castles; four great Altarpieces (1845); St. Geneviève in
Prison; Genius with a Child; Mother and Child; Group of Italian
Women.--Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 543; Cotta’s Kunstbl. (1835), 58; Hamb.
K. Lex.; Söltl.
HANTZSCH, JOHANN GOTTLIEB, born at Neudorf, near Dresden, March 19,
1794, died in Dresden, April 3, 1848. Genre painter, pupil of Dresden
Academy and of Rössler. He satirized the philistinism of small
towns and set forth the humourous aspects of the school-room in his
pictures. Works: Saxon Peasant’s Room; Village School; Youth hath
no Virtue; Sunday Morning (1830), Leipsic Museum; At the Dentist’s
(1839), National Gallery, Berlin.--Jordan (1885), ii. 84.
HAPPEL, FRIEDRICH, born at Arnsberg, Westphalia, May 23, 1825,
died in Düsseldorf, July 5, 1854. Animal painter, brother of Peter
Friedrich, pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy in 1838–41. Works: Foxes
fighting about Dying Buck (1844); Hounds, Foxes hunting Hares,
Fighting Stags (1851–52); Fox Family, Young Foxes Playing, Young
Foxes waiting for their Parents (1853); Stag Calling (1854); Foxes
attacking Wounded Buck (1855).--Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 552; Andresen,
v. 197.
HAPPEL, PETER FRIEDRICH, born at Arnsberg, Westphalia, March 26,
1813, died in Düsseldorf, May 23, 1854. Landscape painter, pupil
from 1829 of the Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer. Opened a studio
in 1842 at Düsseldorf, which he left only at intervals for study at
Munich and in the country. He has been called the painter of German
summer. Was secretary of the Düsseldorf Artists’ Association. Works:
View in Sauerland (1837); Mountain Landscape in Rain (1839); View in
Isar Valley (1840); Maleiche (1842); Way to Village (1847); Moorland
(1848); Harvest Scene, Mill (1850); View in the Eifel, Harvest, with
Procession, View in the Odenwald.--Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 552.
HAPPY AS A KING, William _Collins_, J. Clough, Liverpool; canvas, H.
2 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 11 in. Children swinging on a gate in a wood.
Painted in 1836; sold to Messrs. Finden, 275 guineas. Repetition
(1836) in National Gallery, from Vernon Collection, 1847. Engraved by
E. Finden, C. Cousen.--Wilkie Collins, Memoirs, ii. 66, 349.
HAQUETTE, GEORGES, born in Paris; contemporary. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Adolphe Millet and of Cabanel. Medal, 3d class,
1880. Works: Wandering Musicians (1876); At the Guardian’s (1877);
Scene at Pollet near Dieppe (1878); Francine’s Muff, Interior at
Pollet (1879); Wandering Musicians in Norman Tavern; Fish-seller at
Dieppe (1880); Interior at Mother Panotte’s, Father Mazure (1881);
Departure for Newfoundland, At the Pier (1882); Right of Passage,
Expectation (1883); Salute at Calvary, A Baptism (1884); The Signal
(1884), Mrs. M. J. Morgan, New York; Landing of Fishermen, Blast of
Wind (1885).--Bellier, i. 741.
HARBURGER, EDMUND, born at Eichstädt, Bavaria, April 4, 1846. Genre
painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Lindenschmitt; subjects
mostly humourous. Works: Beer-Drinker, Village Barber (1872);
Contrasts (1873); Senator (1874), Art Union, Munich; Old and Young
(1875); Education of Bacchus (1876); Young Venetian Woman; At the
Silent Hearth (1883); Seamstress (1884); Head Study, Saint Gall
Museum.--Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), ii. 246; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 743.
HARDING, CHESTER, born at Conway, Mass., Sept. 1, 1792, died in
Boston, April 1, 1866. Portrait painter, self-taught. Originally
a turner, then a soldier in the war of 1812, and a house-painter
in Pittsburgh, he developed a talent for portrait painting, and
going to London in 1832 met with much success. After his return he
exercised his profession in St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Boston.
Works: Portraits of Dukes of Norfolk, Hamilton, and Sussex; Sir
Archibald Alison; Samuel Rogers; Lord Aberdeen; Daniel Webster,
Bar Association, New York; Washington Allston, S. Batchelder; John
Randolph, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Daniel Boone; General
Sherman; Henry Clay; John C. Calhoun; Chief Justice Marshall; Charles
Carroll; William Wirt; Presidents Madison, Monroe, and J. Q. Adams.
HARDING, JAMES DUFFIELD, born at Deptford, England, in 1798, died
at Barnes, Dec. 4, 1863. Landscape painter, awarded in 1818 a medal
by the Society of Arts, elected in 1821 an associate, and in 1822 a
member of the Water-Colour Society, which he left in 1847 to become
a candidate for the R. A., but failing returned to it in 1857.
Visited Italy in 1830; promoted lithography, and wrote several works
on art. For his lithographic drawings, exhibited at the Louvre, he
received two gold medals from the Academie des Beaux Arts. Works: The
Alps from Secco to Como; The Jungfrau; Angers on the Loire; View of
Freiburg; Falls of Schaffhausen; On the Moselle, Sir Richard Wallace,
London; Pollards in Windsor Meadows, Tintern Abbey, Landscape with
Hovels, South Kensington Museum.--Art Journal (1850), 181; (1856),
270; (1864), 39, 89.
HARDORFF, GERDT, born in Hamburg Territory (Altenland), May 11,
1769, died in Hamburg in 1864. History painter, pupil in Hamburg of
Anton Tischbein, and from 1788 in Dresden of Casanova; returned in
1796 to Hamburg, where he became professor at the Johanneum. Works:
Cain after the Fratricide (1794); Last Supper, Crucifixion (1796),
Magdalen; Director Gurlitt at the Desk, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.--Allgem.
d. Biogr., x. 595; Nagler, Mon., ii. 1064.
HARDORFF, RUDOLF, born in Hamburg, March 8, 1816. Marine painter,
son and pupil of Gerdt; has visited Holland, England, and Scotland,
and paints marines effectively with interesting accessories. Works:
Sunrise on Coast (1848), Explosion of Danish Man-of-War Christian
VIII. near Eckernförde (1850), Mouth of the Thames near Ramsgate
(1853), Moonlight on Coast, Shipwreck, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Naval
Victory of Germans over the Danes (1858); Roadstead at Isle of Wight;
The Log-House in Hamburg Harbour; Cladda Rock by Moonlight; Scotch
Coast; Men-of-War in North Sea.--Müller, 237.
HARDY, FREDERICK DANIEL, born at Windsor, February, 1826. Genre
painter, relinquished music for painting; began to exhibit in Royal
Academy in 1851 views of domestic interiors, which have made him
popular. Exhibits chiefly at Royal Academy. Works: The Sweep (1862);
Playing at Doctor (1863); The Pedlar (1864); Leaky Roof (1865);
Threatened Deluge (1866); Broken Window (1869); Reading the Will
(1870); Housekeepers Alarmed (1871); Looking for Father (1873);
Stirring News (1875); A Misdeal (1877); Prayer for Those at Sea,
Music Party (1879); Evening with Mozart (1881); Reading the Spectator
in 1711 (1882); In Memoriam (1883); Vespers (1884).
HARDY, HEYWOOD, born in England; contemporary. Genre painter.
Exhibits at Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Christmas Eve
(1877); Meg Merrilies and the Laird of Ellangowan (1879); Sidi Ahmed
ben Avuda and the Holy Lion, Life’s Chequered Ways, Lovers’ Meeting,
Sleeping Beauty, Little Sisters (1881); King’s Daughter, Slain Enemy
(1882); Lion in Love, New Arrival, General Assembly (1883); Rear
Guard, Sale of Cavalry Horses, Wanderers (1884); Roused, Trespassers
(1885).
HAREUX, ERNEST VICTOR, born in Paris, Feb. 18, 1847. Landscape
painter, pupil of Charles Busson, Bin, Trottin, Pelouse, and
Levasseur. Medals: 3d class, 1880; 2d class, 1885. Works: End of
September Day (1868); Before the Rain (1870); Banks of the Seine
(1875); Day after Fête (1878); Return from Market, Summer in Normandy
(1879); Vegetable Garden, Trench of Digue-Blanche (1880); Moonrise
after Rain (1881); Banks of the Creuze (1882); Storm, Moonrise in
November (1883); Twilight in July, November Morning (1884); Banks of
the Creuze, Autumn Night (1885).--Bellier, i. 742.
HARLAMOFF, ALEXIS, born at Saratoff, Russia, in 1849. Genre and
portrait painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy under Markoff; won
in 1870 first prix de Rome, continued his studies in Paris under
Bonnat, and spent two years in Holland and Germany, and one year in
Belgium. Member of St. Petersburg Academy. Medal, 2d class, Paris,
1878. Works: Music Lesson; Children and Flowers; Maiden of Mordva;
Portraits of Turgeneff, M. and Madame Viardot, Emperor Alexander II.,
Prince Kotschubei, Madame Tretiakoff.
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HARLOW, GEORGE HENRY, born in London, June 10, 1787, died there,
Feb. 4, 1819. Portrait painter, pupil of De Cort, Drummond, and Sir
Thomas Lawrence; first exhibited at Royal Academy in 1805. In 1818 he
visited Rome; was introduced to the Pope by Canova, and through him
made a member of the Academy of St. Luke. Best known work, Trial of
Queen Catherine, with Kemble portraits.--Redgrave; F. de Conches, 411.
HARMS, JOHANN OSWALD, born in Hamburg in 1642, died at Brunswick in
1708. German school; landscape and architecture painter, pupil of
Ellerbrock in Hamburg; studied in Rome under Salvator Rosa, whom he
imitated successfully. After his return he lived long in Dresden,
where he painted decorations for the theatre. Works: Winter Landscape
(1675), Schwerin Gallery; others in Brunswick Museum. His son, August
Friedrich (died at Cassel in 1745), also painted landscape and
architecture, but with especial skill dead game, of which excellent
specimens are in the galleries of Brunswick (2) and Copenhagen. In
the cathedral at Brunswick is an Ascension by him, dated 1728. He
also wrote on art.--Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 611.
HARNETT, WILLIAM M., born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1851. Still-life
painter, pupil of the National Academy, New York. Studied in
Frankfort and Munich, 1880–84. Studio in Munich. Works: Social Club
(1879); Still Life (1882), T. B. Clarke, New York; Fruit, Still Life
(1883).
HARPER, ADOLF FRIEDRICH, born in Berlin, Oct. 17, 1725, died there,
June 23, 1806. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Johann H. (born
in Stockholm in 1688, died, court-painter in Berlin, in 1746),
travelled then for eight years in France and Italy, and studied
especially in Rome under Richard Wilson. In 1756 he entered the Duke
of Würtemberg’s service, became court-painter in 1759, professor at
the newlyfounded Academy in 1761, and afterwards at the Karlschule.
He was rector of the former in 1771–72, and of the latter in 1785–94,
and from 1784 director of the galleries. Work: The Garden Theatre
at the Villa Madama, Rome (1760); many others in the Castles of
Würtemberg.--Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 617; Goethe, Schweizer Reise, i.
J. 1797; Haakh, Beiträge, 4.
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HARPIGNIES, HENRI, born at Valenciennes, July 28, 1819. Landscape
painter, pupil of Achard. Both in oil and water-colour this artist
stands in the first rank of living French painters. His water-colours
have the strength and breadth of the English school. Has exhibited
regularly since 1852. Medals: 1866, 1868, and 1869; 2d class, 1878;
L. of Honour, 1875; Officer, 1883. Works: A Deep Road (1852); View of
Capri (1855); The Hedge School, A Panic, Hunting Craw-Fish (1857);
The Return, A Storm (1859); Edge of the Woods, Evening on the Loire,
The Loire (1861); The Rooks (1863); The Promenade (1864); Rome from
the Palatine Hill (1865); View at Sorrento (1865), Douai Museum;
Vesuvius (1866); Evening on the Campagna (1866), Luxembourg Museum;
Solitude (1867); Souvenir of the River Meurthe (1868), Lille Museum;
Rocky Road (1869); View of Montréal (1870); Valley of Egeria (1870),
Opera House; Ruins of the Castle of Hérisson (1872); The Wolf’s Jump
(1873), Orléans Museum; do., Luxembourg; River Aumance, A Benevolent
Public (1874); Oaks of Château-Rénard, Valley of Aumance (1875),
Luxembourg; Meadow in Bourbonnais (1876); Village of Chasteloy
(1877); Old Walnut Tree (1878); Pavilion of Flora from the Pont
Neuf, Turkeys (1879); Return from Hunting in the Evening (1880);
Victim of Winter, the Loing at St. Privé (1881); The Loing, The Loire
(1882); Woods of Trémellerie, An Afternoon at St. Privé (1883);
Loing at Trémellerie, Moonrise (1884); The Loire at Briare, Farm of
Cour-Chaillot (1885).--L’Art (1879), xvi. 269, 281; Larousse; Meyer,
Conv. Lex., xxi. 406.
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HARRACH, FERDINAND VON, Count, born at Rosnochau, Silesia, in 1832.
Landscape and historical genre painter, pupil of Weimar Art School
under Kalckreuth, Ramberg, and Pauwels; took part in the campaigns
of 1866 and 1870, and spent one year in Italy. Lives in Berlin;
member of Berlin Academy since 1873. Works: Chamois Hunters; Henry
the Fowler; Emperor Max on the Martin Wall; Scotch Fisherman’s
Family; Chamois Hunt; Seizure of Luther on his Return from Worms
(1870), Breslau Museum; Arran Island; Spring’s Beginning; Nocturnal
Attack; Opened Garden Door; In the Vineyards of Wörth, Outpost on
Mont Valérien, Napoleon’s Letter to King William (1872); Skating
in Thiergarten, Moltke before Paris (1876); Death of the Sea-King;
Abraham’s Sacrifice (1877); Annunciation to the Shepherds (1878);
Peter’s Denial, Breslau Museum; Alpine Landscape, Female Portraits
(2, 1884).--Müller, 238; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 231.
HARRER, HUGO, born at Hirschberg, Silesia, in 1836, died in Rome,
Dec. 8, 1876. Genre and architecture painter, self-taught. Painted
his first pictures in Nuremberg, then went to Munich, where he was
much influenced by Piloty, and in 1862 to Rome, where he allied
himself closely with Passini. Returned there after a two years’
sojourn in Düsseldorf. In sunlight effects took Oswald Achenbach for
his model; was strong in perspective. View in Olevano (1876), Berne
Museum.--Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 640; Kunst-Chronik, xii. 287, 478.
HARRIET, FULGIRON JEAN, born in Paris(?), died in Rome in 1805.
History painter, pupil of David; won the grand prix de Rome in 1793,
and first prize in 1800 and 1802. In 1803 he went to Rome, and died
there, leaving his Horatius Codes unfinished. Works: Battle of the
Horatii and Curiatii (1800); Androclus and the Lion (1802); Brutus
dying on the Battle-Field (1803); Horatius Cocles on the Sublician
Bridge (1805).--Seubert, ii. 175.
HARRISON, LOWELL BIRGE, born in Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 1854. Genre
painter, pupil in Paris of Carolus Duran, and of the École des Beaux
Arts under Cabanel. Exhibited first in Salon of 1881. Returned to
America in 1882, painted in New Mexico in 1883. Studio in Paris.
Works: Waif from the Sea (1881); Return from First Communion (1882);
November (purchased by French Government); Little Goose-Herd,
Motherless, Summer Idyl, Calling Home the Cows, Milkmaid, Modern
Pompeiian, Friends or Foes (1884).
HARRISON, THOMAS ALEXANDER, born in Philadelphia, Jan. 17, 1853.
Genre and landscape painter, brother of Lowell Birge; pupil of École
des Beaux Arts under Gérôme. Exhibited first in Salon of 1881;
Honourable Mention, 1885. Gold medal, S. Francisco, 1878. Studio in
Paris. Works: Au Bords de la Mer, Shipwrecked, Coast of Brittany
(1881); Châteaux en Espagne (1882); The Amateurs, Little Slave
(1883); Harbour of Concarneau, Pebbly Beach, Breton Garden, Twilight,
The Shipwrecked of Glenans (1884); Sea-shore, The Wave (1885). Butler
Harrison, a younger brother, has studied in Paris since 1881, with
Boulanger and Lefebvre. Work, Little Grandmother (1884), Philadelphia
Academy Exhibition.
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HART, JAMES McDOUGAL, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, May 10, 1828.
Landscape painter; taken to America in 1831; pupil of his brother,
William Hart, and in 1851 of Schirmer in Düsseldorf. Elected an
A.N.A. in 1857, and N.A. in 1859. Studio in New York. Works: On
the Croton, Launt Thompson; Landscape and Cattle, J. H. Sherwood,
New York; Morning in the Adirondacks, M. O. Roberts Collection,
ib.; Summer on the Boquet River, Stewart Gallery, ib.; Summer
Memory of Berkshire, E. D. Morgan Collection, ib.; Autumn Woods,
Rush C. Hawkins, ib.; Glimpse of Cayuga Lake, J. W. Pinchot, ib.;
Adirondacks (1859), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; _Drove_ at the Ford
(1874), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Threatening Weather, In the
Pasture (1877); Midsummer’s Day (1878); Through Dust-Clouds (1879);
Farmington River, At the Brookside (1880); Loitering at Noonday, In
our Village (1881); Princess Lily (1882); In the Old Orchard, Oaks in
Autumn (1883); So Near and Yet so Far, Boughs for Christmas (1884);
At the Watering Trough (1885).--Art Journal (1877), 314.
HART, SOLOMON ALEXANDER, born in Plymouth, April, 1806, died in
London, June 11, 1881. History and portrait painter, apprenticed in
London to Samuel Warren, engraver; became student in Royal Academy
in 1823, A.R.A. in 1835, and R.A. in 1840; was professor of painting
there in 1854–63, and librarian in 1865–81. First won notice by his
Isaac of York in the Castle of Front de Bœuf. Other works: Interior
of a Jewish Synagogue, National Gallery; Henry I. receiving News
of the Shipwreck and Death of his Son (1840); Execution of Lady
Jane Grey, Plymouth Gallery; Columbus and the Child; Wolsey and
Buckingham; Dante; The Hoarder (1881).--Cat. Nat. Gal.; Art Journal
(1881), 223; Sandby, ii. 166; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 457.
HART, WILLIAM, born in Paisley, Scotland, March 31, 1823. Landscape
and animal painter, self-taught; brother of James McDougal; taken to
America in early youth. In 1849 visited Scotland, where he studied
and painted three years. Elected an A.N.A. in 1857, and N.A. in 1858.
Studio in New York. Works: Near Keene, Mt. Desert, S. V. Wright;
After the Shower, S. J. Harriot; Peace and Plenty (1855); Close of
Day--Mt. Desert (1856); Lake in the Hills (1858); White Mountain, E.
B. Warren, Philadelphia; Joy of Autumn (1865); Golden Hour (1872);
Morning in the Mountains (1874); Keene Valley (1875); Jersey Cattle
(1879); Hillside Pasture (1880); Last Gleam, Cattle in the Lane,
Family Group (1881); Landscape and Cattle (1882); Path by the River
(1883); Passing Shower, Napanock Meadows, Group of Cattle (1884).
HARTMANN, CHRISTIAN FERDINAND, born in Stuttgart, July 14, 1774, died
in Dresden, Jan. 6, 1842. History painter, pupil at the Karlschule
under Hetsch; went in 1794 to Rome, which he visited again in 1820–23
and 1828; worked in Stuttgart and Dessau, and lived from 1803 in
Dresden, where he became professor of the Academy in 1810, and
director in 1823. Works: Hector’s Farewell (1812); Theseus and Œdipus
(1816); The Erl-King, Death snatching from a Mother her Children,
Stuttgart Gallery; Rape of Hylas, Leipsic Museum; Hector and the
Trojan Women; Portraits of Matthison, Quandt (1820), and of himself,
the last in the Dresden Gallery.--Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 682; Haakh,
Beiträge, 15; Kügelgen, Jugend-Erinnerungen, 114, etc.; Riegel, 98.
HARTMANN, JOHANN JACOB, born at Kuttenberg, Bohemia, in 1680, died
in Prague about 1730 (?). Landscape painter, a very clever imitator
of Jan Brueghel, Ant. Myron, a follower of Brueghel, being his
immediate model; seems to have settled in Prague in 1702. Work, The
Four Elements, Vienna Museum. His son and pupil, Franz (died in
1730), painted in the same style, and found ready purchasers for his
pictures abroad.--Dlabacz, i. 568.
HARTMANN, LUDWIG, born in Munich, Oct. 15, 1835. Landscape and animal
painter, pupil of Munich Academy (1857), and of Wagner-Deines. Works:
Shipping Expedition on the Inn, Horse-Dealer coming from Market
(1863); Peasants working in Field (1866); Potato Harvest (1867); Span
(1870); Rest in the Field (1872); Camp of Cartmen; Relay-Horses by a
Hill (1873); Halt before Tavern (1874); In the Shade.--Müller, 240.
HARVENG, KARL FRIEDRICH, born in Frankfort in 1832. Genre and
landscape painter, pupil of Städel Institute under Steinle and Jakob
Becker, and from 1854 in Carlsruhe of Schirmer; went regularly to the
Black Forest for ten years to make studies, and afterwards visited
Tyrol, Switzerland, and Southern France. In 1862–66 spent his winters
in Düsseldorf; lives now in Frankfort. Works: Heather in Black
Forest; School Children in Approaching Storm; St. Peter near Meran,
Tyrol; Pictures in Art Unions of Hamburg, Carlsruhe, Berlin, and
Dresden.--Müller, 240.
HARVEST WAGON, Thomas _Gainsborough_, Lord Tweedmouth; canvas, H. 4
ft. × 4 ft. 9 in. Scene in neighbourhood of Bath; a harvest wagon
passing along a sequestered spot at evening, the driver stopping his
team for a girl to mount; another girl seated in wagon; portraits
of two of Gainsborough’s daughters. Painted about 1768 for Mr.
Wiltshire; sold at sale of collection of his grandson, J. Wiltshire
(1867), to Mr. Davis of Bond Street for £3,097 10s. Sketch, Sir
George Beaumont, Bart.--Fulcher, 70, 198.
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HARVEY, Sir GEORGE, born at St. Ninians, near Stirling, Feb., 1806,
died in Edinburgh, Jan. 22, 1876. Subject and landscape painter;
entered Trustees’ Academy, Edinburgh, in 1823, was one of original
associates of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1826, a member in 1829,
and its president in 1867, when he was knighted. His subjects were
largely drawn from the wild scenery and stirring history of Scotland,
where he was very popular. In his later years he devoted much time
to landscape painting. Many of his works have been engraved. Works:
Covenanters Preaching (1830); Covenanter’s Baptism (1831); Battle of
Drumclog (1836); Shakespeare before Sir T. Lucy (1837); Covenanter’s
Communion (1840); Highland Funeral (1844); Incident in Life of
Napoleon (1843); Bunyan in Bedford Gaol (1838); Mountain Pool (1867);
Glen Falloch (1869); Dismissing School (1871); Morning on Loch Awe,
The Curlers (1873).--Redgrave; Wilmot-Buxton, 158; Art Journal
(1850), 341; (1858), 73.
HASELTINE, WILLIAM STANLEY, born in Philadelphia; contemporary.
Landscape painter, pupil of Weber in Philadelphia; also studied in
Düsseldorf. Lived and painted for many years in Venice and Rome.
Elected N.A. in New York in 1861, but rarely exhibits. Works: Castle
Rock--Nahant, Calm Sea, Indian Rock--Nahant, John Taylor Johnston
Collection, New York; Ostia, J. P. Morgan, ib.; Coast of Capri, M.
K. Jesup, ib.; Sicily, Natural Arch at Capri, Ruins of Roman Theatre
(1876); Coast near Amalfi, Fairman Rogers, Philadelphia.
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