1862. Genre painter, son and pupil of Peter Hess, and student in
Munich Academy. Travelled with his father (1839) in Northern Germany,
Poland, and Russia. Early gained repute by his works, and in 1849–50
profited by studying the old masters in Brussels and Paris. Works:
Family in Forester’s House, Game Poulterer (1846); Hunter’s Good
Morning (1848); First Instruction in Hunting (1850); Bavarian
Rifleman on Outpost (1853); Marshal Wrangel overtaken by General von
Werth (1855); Message from Battlefield (1857); Looking for Pheasants
(1862); Shakespeare as a Poacher before his Landlord; Visit at the
Monastery, The Swedish General Wrangel escaping capture by the
Bavarians in 1647 while hunting, New Pinakothek, Munich.--Andresen,
iii. 203.
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HESS, HEINRICH MARIA VON, born in Düsseldorf, April 19, 1798, died
in Munich, March 29, 1863. History and portrait painter, son and
pupil of the engraver Karl Ernst Christoph Hess, then from 1813 at
the Munich Academy under P. von Langer. Having attracted attention
by his paintings when only eighteen, he went in 1821 to Rome, and
remained four years. In 1827–47 he was professor at the Munich
Academy, and in 1849 became director of all the galleries. His
frescos in the Chapel of All Saints (1827–37), and especially those
in the Basilica (1837–46), are among the most remarkable modern works
of their kind. He was a member of the Vienna, Milan, Stockholm, and
Antwerp Academies. Works: Entombment, St. Luke (1815); Holy Family,
Faith, Love, and Hope (1817); Charity, Christmas Eve, St. Cecilia,
Entombment, Descent from the Cross, several portraits (1817–21);
Portrait of Thorwaldsen, Countess Florenzi, Parnassus (1821–26);
67 Scenes from Old and New Testament, and 11 from Church History
(1827–37), Life of St. Boniface (1840–45), Church of All Saints,
Munich; Last Supper (1846), Refectory, Benedictine Monastery,
Munich; Madonna Enthroned, Last Supper (1863, unfinished), Peasants
on Pilgrimage to Rome, Portrait of Thorwaldsen, do. of Florentine
Lady, New Pinakothek, ib.; Portrait of Thorwaldsen, Schack Gallery,
ib.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 278; Brockhaus, ix. 181; Art Journal
(1865), 97; Reber-Pecht, ii. 97.
HESS, HIERONYMUS, born in Basle in 1788, died there in 1850. History
painter, pupil in Rome of Koch. Works: Murder of Emperor Albrecht by
Hans von Schwaben; Battle of the Swiss against the French near St.
Jacob, Basle Museum.--Cotta’s Kunstbl., 1830, 25; N. Necrol. d. D.
1850; Waagen, D., ii. 283, 290.
HESS, JOHANN MICHAEL, born at Erlau, Hungary, Sept. 18, 1768, died
about 1830. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Maurer,
won the first prize in 1794, and afterwards became professor of
drawing at the Engineer Academy. Works: St. Stephen, Assumption, John
the Baptist and John of Nepomuk, Seminary Church, Erlau; Baptism of
St. Stephen, Gran Cathedral.--Wurzbach, viii. 424.
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HESS, KARL, born in Düsseldorf in 1801, died at Reichenhall, Nov. 16,
1874. Genre and animal painter, youngest brother of Peter, whom, with
Wagenbauer, he took for his model. Educated in Munich. Pictures full
of truth, character, and poetry. Also an engraver. Works: Thierstück
(1835); Starting for the Alp, Alp near Kochel (1848); On Stahremberg
Lake; Alp near Schliersee; Munich Buck-Cellar; Pasturage; Tyrolese
Landscape, National Gallery, Berlin.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 298;
Deutsche Warte (1875), 768; Kunst-Chronik, x. 137.
HESS, KARL ADOLF, born in Dresden in 1769, died at Wilhelmsdorf,
near Vienna, July 3, 1849. Battle and horse painter, pupil of Klass;
settled about 1809 in Vienna, where he afterwards became professor at
the Academy. His many journeys to Hungary, Russia, and Turkey, and in
1829 to England, enabled him to acquire a thorough knowledge of the
various breeds of horses, which he painted with great skill. Works:
Attack of Saxon Dragoons (1796); March of Cossacks through Bohemia
(1799); Twelve Pictures--The Riding School (1800–1807); Horses’ Heads
(1825).--Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 296; Wurzbach, viii. 425.
HESS, LUDWIG, born in Zürich, Oct. 16, 1760, died there, April 13,
1800. Landscape painter, studied entirely from nature; visited
Florence and Rome in 1794. Much influenced by Salomon Gessner. Works:
Mont Blanc; Morning in the Alps; Evening on Lago Maggiore; Grütli,
Tell’s Chapel; collection of his best paintings (37) in Zürich
Gallery.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 298; Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Ludwig Hess
(Zürich, 1800).
HESS, MAX, born in Munich, Oct. 15, 1825, died at Lippspringe,
Westphalia, July 19, 1868. History painter, youngest son and pupil
of Peter; also studied in Paris and Düsseldorf. Works: Puritans
on Guard; Italian Noblemen on a Veranda; Pillage of a Monastery;
Torchlight Procession at Düsseldorf, 1857, painted for the Princes of
Hohenzollern; Portrait of the Opera-Singer Kindermann.--Allgem. d.
Biogr., xii. 299; Blanckarts, 30; Kunst-Chronik, iii. 171.
HESS, PETER VON, born in Düsseldorf, July 29, 1792, died in Munich,
April 4, 1871. Genre and battle painter, son and pupil of Karl Ernst
Christoph Hess, and from 1806 at the Munich Academy; served in the
campaigns of 1813–15, visited Vienna, Switzerland, and Italy (1818),
accompanied King Otho to Greece in 1833, and visited Russia (1839)
to make studies for a series of battle-pieces ordered by the Czar
Nicolas. One of the foremost modern painters of war life. Founded
with Quaglio the Art Union at Munich. Bavarian court-painter and
member of the Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and St. Petersburg Academies.
Works: Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, Return of Bavarian Officers
(1813); Horsemen seeking Shelter, Cossack Scenes (1814); Battle of
Arcis-sur-Aube (1817); Abruzzi Peasants before an Inn, Marino--a
Robber--defending Himself, Cossacks crossing the Rhine (1819);
Defence of a Bridge near Hanau (1820); Skirmish between French and
Austrian Cavalry, Austrian Camp (1822); Plundering Cossacks (1820),
Sutler Scene, Feast of St. Leonhard in Bavaria (1825), French
Train-Wagon surprised by Austrian Uhlans, Pallicares near Athens
(1829), National Gallery, Berlin; Encounter at Wörgel in 1809,
Skirmish near Pass Strub in 1805, Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube (1828);
Wallachian Horses, Entry of King Otho into Nauplia (1835), do. into
Athens, The Robber Barbone and Family defending themselves against
Gendarmes, View of San Marino, Rest before Inn, Train of Greek
Peasants on Sea-Coast, Chamois Hunter, Italian Family at Tivoli,
Battle of Austerlitz, Scenes from Greek War of Independence (40 oil
sketches for frescos in Arcades of Royal Garden), New Pinakothek,
Munich; Duck-Shooting on the Moor, Leipsic Museum; Laying of
Corner-Stone of Column of Constitution; Landing of Greek Troops
at Nauplia; Battles of Smolensk, Poloczk, Wiasma, Valutina Gora,
Krasnoi, Klasigy, and Borodino, Crossing of the Beresina (1839–55);
Battle of Leipsic (1854); Battle of Austerlitz (1856).--Allgem. d.
Biogr., xii. 300; Brockhaus, ix. 180; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 116.
HESSE, ALEXANDRE (JEAN BAPTISTE), born in Paris, Sept. 30, 1806, died
there, Aug. 7, 1879. History painter, nephew and pupil of Auguste
Hesse, and pupil of Gros; studied the works of Paolo Veronese at
Venice, and formed his style after that master. His pictures are much
admired for their skilful composition and careful finish. Medals:
1st class, 1833; 2d class, 1848; L. of Honour, 1842; Officer, 1868;
Member of Institute, 1867. Works: Titian’s Funeral (1833); Leonardo
da Vinci letting loose some Birds (1836); Mower Girl (1837), Girl
carrying Fruit (1838), Venetian Concert, Nantes Museum; Death of
Brisson (1840); Adoption of Godfrey de Bouillon by Emperor Alexis
Comnenus (1842), Versailles Museum; Catalan Fishermen, Young Woman
of Arles (1844); Pisani’s Triumph (1847), Luxembourg Museum; The
Republic (1848); Charity (1861); Mural paintings illustrative of the
Life of St. Francis, in chapel of St. Francis de Sales, St. Sulpice,
Paris.--Bellier, i. 766; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 29; Meyer, Gesch., 283.
HESSE, (NICOLAS) AUGUSTE, born in Paris, Aug. 28, 1795, died there,
June 14, 1869. History painter, uncle of Alexandre Hesse, pupil of
Gros; won the grand prix de Rome in 1818. Decorated the churches of
Notre Dame de Lorette, St. Elizabeth, Bonne Nouvelle, St. Eustache,
St. Séverin, and St. Sulpice, Paris. Painted on glass and made
designs for other glass painters. Seldom exhibited in the Salon.
Medal, 1st class, 1838; L. of Honour, 1840; Member of Institute,
1863. Works: Philemon and Baucis (1818); Foundation of Collège de
Sorbonne (1827), Church of the Sorbonne, Paris; Mirabeau in the
States-General of 1789 (1838), Amiens Museum; Christ at the Sepulchre
(1838), Cathedral of Périgueux; St. Mary fainting at the Tomb of
Christ (1845), formerly Luxembourg Museum; Adoration of Shepherds,
Conversion and Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, Notre Dame de Lorette,
Paris; Jacob and the Angel (1851), Avranches Cathedral; Clytia Dying
(1853), Amiens Museum; Portrait of Girardon (1856). In the Hotel de
Ville, he painted, among other pictures, the Promulgation of the
Concordat.--Bellier, i. 765; Kunst-Chronik, iv. 195.
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HETSCH, PHILIPP FRIEDRICH VON, born in Stuttgart, Sept. 10, 1758,
died there, Dec. 31, 1839. History painter, pupil, from 1773 at
the Karlsschule, of Guibal and Harper; made court-painter in 1780,
and sent to Paris, where he continued his studies for two years
under Vien, Vernet, and David; was in Rome in 1785–87, and again
in 1795. In 1787 he was appointed professor at the Karlsschule,
in 1798 director of the Ducal Gallery, and in 1801 member of the
Berlin Academy. In 1809 he again visited Paris, and in 1816 Leipsic,
Dresden, and Berlin. His pictures, which show the influence of
David’s school, are mostly in the Würtemberg galleries. Works: Anger
of Achilles; Blind Œdipus; Cupid and Psyche; Farewell of Regulus;
Brutus and Portia; Papirius and the Gauls; Marius at Carthage; Daniel
in the Lions’ Den; Joseph in Prison; Ascension; St. Cecilia; Mary
with Wife of Pilate; Odin’s Descent into Hell; Cornelia with her
Children; Albonack’s Daughters before King Alfred, Stuttgart Museum;
King Frederic and Suite before Castle Monrepos; Brutus seeing the
Ghost of Cæsar, Darmstadt Museum.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 320;
Goethe, Schweizer Reise, i. J. 1797; Haakh, Beiträge, 8; Riegel, 175;
Wagner, Gesch. der Karlsschule, i. 463.
HEUBNER, HERMANN LUDWIG, born in Leipsic in 1843. Landscape, genre,
and portrait painter, pupil of Weimar Art School under Pauwels;
was in 1869–73 director of the Aarland Institute, Leipsic. Works:
Lying-in Room; Going to Church; Nobody at Home; Goats in Entrance
Hall; View in Rhön Mountains.--Müller, 255.
HEULLANT, FÉLIX ARMAND, born in Paris, April 23, 1834. Genre painter,
pupil of Picot and E. Giraud. Paints attractive pictures of life
and manners. Works: The Truant; The Spring; Hiding; Apple-Gathering
in Japan; Greek Washerwomen; Sacrifice to Venus; Sleeping Endymion;
Lover of the Olden Time; Soap-Bubbles, Cleopatra (1879); Heliogabalus
raining Roses, The Nest (1880); Origin of Design, Summer (1881);
Japanese Concert, Japanese Marriage Car (1882); A Harem, A Meeting
(1883); Finding of Moses, Bouquet de Nice (1884); Iris (1885).
HEUR, CORNELIS JOZEF D’, born at Antwerp, March 27, 1707, died
March 12, 1762. Flemish school; history and interior painter, pupil
of Kasper Jacob van Opstal, of Jan Jozef Horemans, the elder,
and of Peeter Snyers; went in 1730 to Paris, where he won several
medals (1730, 1731, 1732); painted chiefly grisailles. Works:
Coat of Arms of Abbey Saint-Michel, do. of Abbot Jacques Thomas,
Prudence, Justice, Force, Instruction in Perspective (1761), Antwerp
Museum.--Cat. du Musée d’Anvers (1874), 149; Van den Branden, 1214.
HEUSCH, GUILLIAM (Willem) DE, born at Utrecht in 16--?, died in 1699
(1712?). Dutch school; landscape painter, said to have studied in
Italy under Jan Both, whom he imitated. Dean of guild in Utrecht in
1649. Works: Road with Shepherd and Herd (1629), Dresden Gallery;
Landscape with Cattle and Shepherds (1696), Louvre; Italian View
with Waterfall, Rotterdam Museum; Italian Landscape (3), Amsterdam
Museum; do. (2), Hague Museum; Mountainous Landscape, Cassel Gallery;
do., Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do., Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Evening
Landscape with Ruin, Vienna Museum; others in Brunswick, Frankfort,
Copenhagen, and Stockholm Galleries.--Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise;
Immerzeel, ii. 36; Kramm, iii. 686; De Stuers, 47; Riegel, Beiträge,
ii. 371.
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HEUSCH, JACOB DE, born at Utrecht in 1657, died in Amsterdam in
1701. Dutch school; landscape painter, nephew and pupil of Guilliam
de Heusch, whom he imitated; went to Italy, where he studied from
nature and the works of Salvator Rosa. His pictures so clearly
resembled those of his uncle that the members of the Schilderbent in
Rome called him Affdruck (copyist). Landscape pleasing, colour good,
composition well distributed, enlivened with figures and animals.
Works: Ponte Rotto in Rome (1696), Brunswick Museum; Landscapes (2,
1699), Landing-Place on a Lake (1699), Vienna Museum; Mountainous
Landscapes (2), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.--Immerzeel, ii. 37;
Quellenschriften, xiv. 429; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 416.
HEUSS, EDUARD VAN, born at Oggersheim, Rhenish Palatinate, in
1808, died in 1880. History and portrait painter; studied in
Munich and Rome, where he joined the artistic circle of Cornelius
and companions, and was on intimate terms with Thorwaldsen. On
his travels afterwards through Holland, Paris, and London he was
much influenced by Rubens and Rembrandt. Painted more than eighty
portraits, many life-size, of reigning princes, dignitaries,
and representatives of science and art, among them Thorwaldsen
and Overbeck. Works: Rape of Europa (1832), Darmstadt Museum;
Annunciation, Mater Amabilis, Mater Gloriosa, Mater Dolorosa, Mater
Salvatoris, New Pinakothek, Munich.--Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 648.
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HEYDEN, AUGUST (JACOB THEODOR) VON, born in Breslau, June 13, 1827.
History painter, pupil in Berlin of Steffeck, and in Paris of Gleyre
and Couture; won the gold medal, and afterwards repeatedly visited
Italy to study the monumental painting of the Renaissance. Works: St.
Barbara as Patron Saint of Miners (1864); _Luther_ and Frundsberg
before the Imperial Diet, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Luther in
Wittenberg; Arion on Waves of the Sea (1868), Berlin Opera-House;
Wooing of French Ambassador for Princess Clemence (1869); The Siesta,
The Fairy-Tale (1870); Festive Morning (1870), National Gallery,
Berlin; Happy Times, The Anglers, Ride of the Walkyries (1872);
Leucothea, Martyr at the Stake, Œdipus and the Sphinx, Olof’s Wedding
Ride (1878); Fresco paintings in City Hall and National Gallery,
Berlin.--Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii. 493; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix.
565; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 211; D. Rundschau, xiii. 334; xvii.
299; xx. 103.
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HEYDEN, JAN VAN DER, born at Gorinchem (Gorkum), in 1637, died in
Amsterdam, Sept. 28, 1712. Dutch school; architecture and landscape
painter; views of buildings show a feeling for the picturesque, warm
and transparent tone, accurate perspective, and fine touch. Ranks
first among those who represented exteriors of buildings. Adriaan
van de Velde, Eglon van der Neer, and Lingelbach painted figures in
his pictures. Said to have visited London. Works: Street in Cologne,
Landscape, Street in Town, Architectural Scene, National Gallery,
London; Cologne Cathedral, Two Church Views, Sir Richard Wallace,
London; Dutch House on a Canal, Buckingham Palace; do., Bridgewater
Gallery; Market-Place in Dutch Town, Lord Ashburton, London; Stone
Bridge, Draw-Bridge, Canal View, View of Amersfoort, Amsterdam
Museum; Interior of Dutch Town (1667), Hague Museum; Amsterdam Town
Hall (1668), Market-Place and Church in Dutch Town, Village on a
River, Landscape with Ruins, Louvre; Quay of Amsterdam, Aremberg
Gallery, Brussels; The Vyvergracht at the Hague, Public Square
at Veere--Zealand, Carlsruhe Gallery; Palace with Dutch Garden,
Landscape, Cassel Gallery; Landscape with Castle, Brunswick Museum;
Mordecai’s Ride, Landscapes (2), Schwerin Gallery; Square in a City,
Palace of Duke of Brabant at Brussels, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Gothic
Church (1678), Views of Monasteries (3), Dresden Gallery; Old Castle,
Museum, Vienna; Interior of a Town, Academy, ib.; Dutch Street on
Canal, Landscape with Town, Canal with Vessels, Church, Mountainous
Landscape, Three Churches and Castle, Perspective View of Street,
Italian Castle, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; others in Copenhagen
and Frankfort Galleries; Old City on the Rhine, Château and Park,
Historical Society, New York.--Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise;
Immerzeel, ii. 37; Kramm, iii. 687; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 506; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 407.
HEYDEN, KARL, born in Cologne in 1845. Portrait and genre painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf Academy and of Wilhelm Sohn; travelled in
Germany, Belgium, and France. Works: Convalescent; Women at Grave of
Fallen Soldier; Spring Flower; Apple Woman; Among Favourites.
HEYDEN, Dr. OTTO, born at Ducherow, Pomerania, July 8, 1820. History
and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Klöber and Woch,
and in Paris (1847–48) of Cogniet; lived in Italy, especially in
Rome and Sicily, in 1850–54, and then settled in Berlin. In 1866
he took part in the campaign in Bohemia, in the suite of the Crown
Prince, visited the East in 1869, and accompanied the army to France
in 1870. Court-painter and professor at Berlin Academy. Works: Job
derided by his Wife (1855), Stettin Museum; Italian Mower, Founding
of Greifswalde University (1856); Boguslaw X. attacked by Pirates,
Girl of Sorrento, Stettin Museum; Field-Marshal Schwerin in Battle
of Prague, Royal Palace, Berlin; Ride of Emperor William over
Battlefield at Sadowa (1868), National Gallery, Berlin; Meeting of
Crown Prince and Prince Frederic Charles; Emperor William decorating
the Crown Prince; Bazaar in Cairo; Street Life in Cairo; Emperor
William visiting the Wounded at Versailles; Portraits of German
Emperor, of Bismarck, Moltke, and General Steinmetz.--Müller, 256;
Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 188.
HEYERDAHL, HANS, born in Sweden; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil
of Munich Academy and in Paris of Bonnat; now in Florence. Medal,
Paris, 3d class, 1878. Works: Nymph talking to Magpie (1880);
Flower-Seller, “How Much?” (1881); Dead Child, The Visit (1882);
Sleeping Nymph and Satyr, Girl lighting Fire (1883); Bather (1884);
Norwegian Landscape, Young Girl (1885).
HEYMANS, ADRIEN JOSEPH, born in Antwerp, June 11, 1839. Landscape
painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy at the age of fifteen, but formed
himself chiefly through study of nature and of the works of Corot,
Millet, and Daubigny in Paris. In 1880 he exhibited about sixty of
his pictures in Brussels, with great success. Works: Sunset on Heath
(1875), Ghent Museum; Return of the Herd; Moonrise; Morning Mist by
the Sea; Three Marines; Sunrise; Snow Landscape with Birch Trees;
Cows at Pasture; Evening on the Scheldt; Old Avenue of Bloemeschot;
Spring Morning in the Campine, Ghent Museum; Swamp, Evening
Landscape; Snow-Storm.--Müller, 257.
HEYN, AUGUST, born at Sophienau, Meiningen, Aug. 10, 1837. Genre
painter, pupil of Munich Academy, and of Raupp and Defregger;
copied in the Munich and Dresden Galleries, visited Italy, South
Tyrol, Hesse, the Black Forest, and England. Works: Scenes from
Children’s World and Peasant Life; To Her! To Him!; Little Barber
(1880).--Müller, 257.
HICKEL, ANTON, born at Böhmisch-Leipa, Bohemia, in 1745, died in
Hamburg, Oct. 30, 1798. German school; portrait painter, pupil of
his brother Josef and of Vienna Academy; went about 1777 to France,
where he painted Marie Antoinette, then to London, where he made a
name by his picture of the House of Commons, containing ninety-six
life-size portraits (1793–95), now in National Gallery, London
(presented by Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, 1885); Turk with
Slave making Music, Schleissheim Gallery; Portrait of Burgomaster
Debary, Basle Museum. One of his best works is the portrait of the
poet Klopstock.--Allgem. Kunst-Chronik, ix. 567; Wurzbach, ix. 2.
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HICKEL, JOSEF, born at Böhmisch-Leipa in 1736, died in Vienna, March
28, 1807. Portrait painter, first instructed by his father, then
pupil of Vienna Academy under Martin van Meytens; went to Italy in
1768, painted the portraits of many notabilities in Milan, Parma,
and Florence for the Empress Maria Theresa, and was made member of
the Florence and, after his return, of the Vienna Academy (1776),
and court-painter. More than three thousand of his works are known.
Works: Portrait of Joseph II., City Hall, Vienna; Empress Maria
Theresa, King Ferdinand of Naples and Queen; Duke Albert of Teschen
and Archduchess Christine; Emperor Leopold II.; Emperor Francis;
Pope Pius VI.; Prince Kaunitz; General Baron Lascy; Prince Kinsky;
Elector Charles Theodore, Painter Winck, Augsburg Gallery.--Allgem.
d. Biogr., xii. 385; Wurzbach, ix. 3.
HICKS, GEORGE EDGAR, born at Lymington, England, in 1824. Genre and
portrait painter, pupil of Bloomsbury School of Art in 1843, and of
Royal Academy in 1844. Works: Lark at Heaven’s Gate (1855); Dividend
Day at the Bank (1859); Post-Office (1860); Before the Magistrates
(1866); Reflected Smiles (1867); Utilizing Church Metal (1869);
Black Monday (1871); Ruth the Moabitess (1874); Return from Gleaning
(1876); Fisherman’s Wife, Woodman’s Daughter (1877); Forget Me Not
(1878); Cinderella (1883); Portraits (1884).
HICKS, THOMAS, born at Newtown, Penn., Oct. 18, 1823. Portrait
painter, studied in Philadelphia and at the National Academy, later a
pupil of Couture in Paris. In 1845 visited Europe, where he remained
four years. First picture exhibited in 1841. Elected N.A. in 1851.
Studios in New York and Trenton Falls, N. J. Works: Edwin Booth as
Iago; Henry Ward Beecher; Longfellow; Halleck; Dr. Kane; William M.
Evarts; Dr. Cogswell; Bayard Taylor; Hamilton Fish; Luther Bradish
(1857), Elisha Kent Kane (1859), Henry Abbott (1863), Historical
Society, New York; Parke Godwin (1879), Mrs. F. N. Goddard, New
York; Portrait, Indian Summer (1881); Mrs. B. F. Romaine (1882);
Mrs. S. F. Billings (1883); Dr. James R. Wood (1884), New York
Academy of Medicine; Birches at Thornwood--Trenton Falls (1879); In
Brittany (1884); End of a Winter Day (1885), Dr. Robert Band, New
York.--Tuckerman, 465; Benjamin, 49, 86.
HIDDEMANN, FRIEDRICH PETER, born at Düsseldorf, Oct. 4, 1829. Genre
painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Theodor Hildebrandt
and Wilhelm Schadow; travelled in Germany, France, Belgium, and
Holland, painted at first historical and romantic subjects, then
humourous genre scenes. Medals in Vienna (1873), Philadelphia
(1876). Works: Wedding and Baptism; The Monster; Concert; Surprise;
Severe Lecture; Pocket-Revision; Philosophy of the Ball (1858),
W. T. Walters, Baltimore; From Bygone Days (1861); School-Arrest;
Beginning of Kirmess (1862); Amateur Quartette (1863), Königsberg
Museum; Bottle of Champagne; Reunion (1866); Recruiting in Time of
Frederic the Great (1870), National Gallery, Berlin; Return from
Afar (1871); Unbidden Neighbours (1872), Wiesbaden Museum; Picnic
in the Woods, In Compartment of First Class (1874); Winter Pleasure
(1875); Funeral in Westphalia, Carlsruhe Gallery; Love Letter (1875),
Düsseldorf Gallery; Desire for Revenge (1876); Physician’s Anteroom
(1877).--Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), i. 32; ii. 307; (1878), ii. 347;
Müller, 258; Neue freie Presse, Aug. 18, 1871.
HIEN, DANIEL, born at Strassburg in 1725, died at Zweibrücken,
Bavaria, in 1773. Landscape, animal, and still-life painter, pupil
of Konrad Mannlich, then in Milan (1749) of Crivelli, and in Paris
of Oudry; painted especially hunting pieces with great skill. Works:
Landscape with Herd and Figures, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Animal
pieces (2) (1765), Schleissheim Gallery; others in Augsburg Gallery.