Düsseldorf, Dec. 5, 1879. Genre painter, pupil in Königsberg of I.
Wolf, and from 1839–41 at the Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn and
Schadow. Established his reputation by painting subjects relating to
the social problems of the day, but after 1848 he treated subjects of
more general interest, which met with great success, particularly in
Holland and America, and caused his being made an honorary member of
the Amsterdam and Philadelphia Academies. On a visit to America in
1874–75 he was warmly received by American artists in the principal
cities of the Union. He was one of the most active founders, in
1844, of the Düsseldorf Union of Artists for mutual aid, and in 1848
of the Malkasten, to which he gave its name. Works: Angry Old Man,
Sick Child (1839); New Apprentice, Barred Well (1843); The Silesian
Weavers (1844); Help in Need, Sleeping Wood-Thief, Charity in the
Cottage of the Poor (1845); Shooting-License (1846), Ravené Gallery,
Berlin; The Emigrants (1846), Christiania Museum; The Forsaken
(1846); Little Wood-Thieves (1847); The Pouters (1847), Carlsruhe
Gallery; Birthday; Seizure for Debt (1848), Königsberg Museum;
Midday Rest of Peasants during Harvest (1849), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Orphans at Parents’ Grave, Rescue from Fire (1853); Old Warrior
telling of his Deeds (1854), Labourer rescuing Child from burning
House, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Surprised Lovers; The Orphans;
The Outcast (1867), National Gallery, Berlin; The Twins, Sailor’s
Return, Sinner at the Church Door, Comfort in Prayer, The Widow,
Düsseldorf Gallery; Shelter from the Storm (1874); Consolation in
Prayer (1875), Düsseldorf Gallery; Quartering in the Vineland (1876);
Depressed Mood (1877); An Artist on the Dutch Coast, Happy Union
(1878); The Recovery, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia. His son and
pupil Julius (born at Düsseldorf in 1842, died there, Dec. 30, 1874)
was a promising genre painter of humorous subjects. Works: The Great
Bootjack; The New Barometer; Scrubbing Day; Bad Memory.--Allgem. d.
Biogr., xiii. 270; Illustr. Zeitg. (1880), i. 36; Kunst-Chronik;
Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 292; Wiegmann, 329; Blanckarts, 81.
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HÜBNER, (RUDOLF) JULIUS (BENNO), born at Oels, Silesia, Jan. 27,
1806, died at Loschwitz, Nov. 7, 1882. History painter, pupil of
Berlin Academy under Schadow, whom he followed to Düsseldorf in 1826;
having returned to Berlin, he married Bendemann’s sister in 1829, and
going in the same year to Italy was in Rome with Schadow in 1830,
in Berlin in 1831, and in Düsseldorf in 1833. In 1839 he followed
Bendemann to Dresden, where he became professor at the Academy in
1841, and director of the Royal Gallery in 1871. Member of Dresden,
Berlin, and Philadelphia Academies. Great gold medal in Brussels
(1851). Numerous Orders. Works: Boaz and Ruth (1825); The Fisherman
(1827); Roland liberating Princess Isabella (1828); Ruth and Naomi
(1830), Guardian Angels (1836), Infant Christ (1837), Golden Age
(1849), National Gallery, Berlin; Samson breaking the Columns (1832);
Holy Family (1833), Leipsic Museum; Christ and Evangelists (1834);
Ecce Homo (1836), St. Andrew’s, Düsseldorf; Job and his Friends
(1838), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Consider the Lilies (1839);
Melusina, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Felicitas and Sleep (1841),
Breslau Museum; Emperor Frederic III. (1842), Emperor’s Hall,
Frankfort; St. George, Christ Enthroned (1843); Resurrection (1844);
Annunciation (1845); Christ with Chalice and Bread (1846); Jew’s Head
(1834), Golden Age (1848), Lansquenet (1848), Portrait of Actor Porth
(1853), Dispute between _Luther_ and Eck (1863–66), Dresden Gallery;
Memorial to Gontard, Samuel and Eli, Magdalen (1849); The Angel
of the Lord showing the Evangelist Babylon’s great Whore (1850);
Stephanus before the Council; Charles V. at St. Yuste; Frederic
the Great at Sans-Souci; Cupid in Winter; Magdalen beside Body of
Christ (1864); Christ in the Temple; Hagar and Ishmael; Portraits of
Princess Margaret of Saxony, of Dr. Carus, Count and Countess Kanitz,
Prince Hatzfeld, Gottfried Schadow; J. von Keller (1860), Düsseldorf
Gallery.--Brockhaus, ix. 427; Illustr. Zeitg. (1882), ii. 474;
Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 242, 415; Müller, 269; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf.
K., 22; Reber-Pecht, ii. 114; Wiegmann, 112.
HUCHTENBURG. See _Hughtenburgh_.
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HUDSON, THOMAS, born in Devonshire in 1701, died at Twickenham, Jan.
26, 1779. Pupil of Jonathan Richardson; succeeded Jervas as the
fashionable portrait painter of the day, though he was soon eclipsed
by his pupil, Reynolds. He generally painted only the head, leaving
the accessories to his assistant, Van Haaken, of Antwerp. Works:
Portraits of Handel, Lord Chief Justice Willes, National Portrait
Gallery; Charles Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim; Mary Coke, Bute
Collection.--Redgrave; F. de Conches, 85, 194.
HUDSON RIVER, DISCOVERY OF, Albert _Bierstadt_, House of
Representatives, Capitol, Washington; in panel near south doors.
Companion-piece to Settlement of California. The artist received
$20,000 for these two pictures.
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HUE, JEAN FRANÇOIS, born at Saint-Arnould-en-Yvelines
(Seine-et-Oise), Dec. 1, 1751, died in Paris, Dec. 24, 1823.
Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Joseph Vernet. A famous
painter in his day. Employed by the government to paint the seven
French seaports wanting to complete the series of fifteen begun by
Vernet. Member of Academy, 1782. Works: Taking of Isle of Granada
in 1779 (1787), Naval Battle near Isle of Granada (1788), Napoleon
visiting Camp of Boulogne (1806), Versailles Museum; French Seaports
(7); Port d’Orient at Sunset (1801), Cherbourg Museum; Combat of the
Ship Le Formidable (1808), Angers Museum; Cascade under Rocks, Nantes
Museum; Port of Genoa (1810); Shipwreck of the Virginia (1812);
Echo bewailing Narcissus (1814); Port and Tower of Terracina, View
in Bois de Satory at Versailles (1819); Landscape with Belisarius
and his Guide (1822); Coast with Agitated Sea, Hermitage, St.
Petersburg.--Bellier, i. 785.
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HUET, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Paris, Oct. 15, 1745, died there, Aug.
27, 1811. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Dagommier, Boucher,
and Leprince. His paintings of animals are of great merit. Member
of the Academy in 1769. Works: Dog Attacking Geese, Caravan, Fox in
Chicken-Yard (1769); Wolf pierced with Lance, Farmer’s Wife (1771);
Europe, Asia, Fidelity tearing the Bonds of Love, Morning, Noon,
Afternoon, Evening (1773); Shepherd with his Dog (1775), Orléans
Museum; Holy Family with Shepherds, Return from Market (1775);
Pastoral Trophy, Farmer’s Wife feeding Chickens (1777); Hercules
and Omphale (1779); View of Ronce Pond at Sèvres, View of Walls and
Fortress of Molle, Annunciation to the Shepherds (1787); Washing on
Banks of a Pond, View of Oven at Bougival, Herdsman watching his Herd
(1800); Bulls in a Stable, Donkey with Chickens (1801); Lion and
Lioness with their Young (1802); Landscape with Birds, Rouen Museum;
Dog pointing at Partridges, Animals Grazing, Horses and Sheep at
Pasture, Nantes Museum; Ram and Two Ewes, Two Dogs killing a Lamb and
Chickens, Robillard Collection, Rheims. His son and pupil, Nicolas
(born in Paris, 1770, still living in 1827), was commissioned by the
government to paint for the Museum of Natural History one hundred and
twenty water-colours, to continue the collection begun in 1650 by the
Duke of Orléans.--L’Art (1876), vii. 124; Bellier, i. 787; Ch. Blanc,
École française; Lejeune, Guide, i. 236; iii. 130.
HUET, PAUL, born in Paris, Oct. 5, 1804, died there, Jan. 9, 1869.
Landscape painter, pupil of Paul Guérin, of Gros, and of the École
des Beaux Arts. In 1831 he became the founder of a new school of
romantic landscape painting, in which he was the precursor of
Theodore Rousseau and of Jules Dupré. Frequently visited Italy and
Holland. Had many pupils. Medals: 2d class, 1833; 1st class, 1848,
1855, 1867; L. of Honour, 1841. Works: View of La Fère (1827); Storm
at Close of Day, Interior of a Park (1831); Entrance of Forest
of Compiègne, Guard-House (1833); Views of Eu and of Honfleur
(1834); Morning Calm in Forest (1835), Luxembourg Museum; Autumn
Evening (1836); Gust of Wind (1838), Avignon Museum; Château of
Arques (1840), Orléans Museum; Torrent of Etolie (1841); Castle of
Avignon (1843), Avignon Museum; Val d’Enfer, Mare and Foxes (1848);
Col de Tende (1849); Private Park of St. Cloud, Children in the
Wood, Enchanted Shores (1850); Calm in the Woods (1852); Breakers
of Granville (1853), Marshes of Picardy, Inundation of St. Cloud
(1855), Louvre; Ford, Thatched Cottage, Betwixt Rain and Sunlight,
Pastures (1859); Sunset near Trouville, Equinoctial High Tide near
Honfleur (1861); Cliffs of Houlgatt, Bordeaux Museum; do., Lower
Meudon (1863); Torrent in the Alps, The Uriage Road (1864); Creek
on the Pyrenees Frontier (1865), Montpellier Museum; Park of The
Hague at Sunset (1866), Orléans Museum; Fontainebleau, Ruins of
Castle of Pierrefonds (1868); Fishermen drawing a Seine on the Shore
at Houlgatt (1869); View near Naples, Caen Museum; Toucque Valley,
Luxembourg Museum.--L’Art (1878), ii. 15; Bellier, i. 788; Burty,
Maitres, 179; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 297; Larousse; Meyer,
Gesch., 741.
HUFFEL, PEETER VAN, born at Grammont, East Flanders, baptized April
17, 1769, died at Ghent, Aug. 12, 1844. History and portrait painter,
pupil of Ghent Academy, where he won several prizes; then studied
seven years at Mechlin under Herreyns, and in Paris; after his return
to Ghent was appointed director of the Academy and conservator of
the Museum. Gold medal, Ghent, 1817. Court-painter to Queen Anna
Pavlovna of Holland. Works: Holy Virgin in the Temple (1817), Abbey
of Dooreseele; Miracle of St. Landvald, St. Bavon’s, Ghent; SS Peter
and Paul, St. James’s, ib.; Resurrection, Museum, ib.; Portrait
of Napoleon as Consul, Antwerp Museum; do. of John Quincy Adams
(1814).--Cat. du Mus. d’Anvers (1874), 474; Immerzeel, ii. 61; Kramm,
iii. 763; vii. 87.
HUGARD DE LATOUR, CLAUDE SÉBASTIEN, born at Cluses (Haute-Savoie),
in April, 1818. Landscape painter, pupil of Diday. Medals: 3d class,
1844; 2d class, 1846. Works: Morning in the Alps (1844); Sunrise,
Cool Valley (1846); View of Montblanc (1853), School of Mines,
Paris; replica reduced in Museum at Bagnères-de-Bigorre; Ascent of
Mer de Glace by Emperor and Empress in 1860 (1861); Entry to Forest
of Bellem, After the Rain (1870); View in Forest of Compiègne,
do. near Trouville (1874); Cirque de Cavarni, Lake of Thünn,
Bagnères-de-Bigorre Museum; Spring-banks of Seine (1884); Sunset in
Valley of Faucigny (1885), Prince de Lucinge-Faucigny.--Bellier, i.
789.
HUGHES, ARTHUR, born in London in 1832. Genre and portrait painter,
student of Royal Academy, where he exhibited his April Love in 1854.
Belongs to the Pre-Raphaelite school. Works: Eve of St. Agnes,
Music Party, Sunbeam in Church (1864); Home from Work, The Mower,
Silver and Gold (1865); Good Night (1866); Sir Galahad, Endymion
(1870); Lady of Shalott, Convent Boat (1873); Woodman’s Return;
King’s Garden; Burial of the Good Knight; Vanity, Uncertainty
(1878); The Old Neighbour gone Before (1879); The Sailing Signal
Gun, Mittagsschläfchen (1881); Summer is a-coming In, Skipper and
his Crew (1882); Memories, Home Quartette (1883); Ripe Corn, Corner
of the Common (1884); Sunday Morning, Autumn, Rest by the Way
(1885).--Portfolio (1870), 113.
HUGHTENBURGH (Huchtenburg), JACOBUS VAN, born at Haarlem in 1639(?),
died in Rome about 1670(?). Dutch school; landscape painter, brother
of Jan van Hughtenburgh, pupil of Nicolaas Berchem. Travelled
in Italy and lived long in Rome. Landscapes with Cattle (2,
1670), Copenhagen Gallery; Roman Landscape, do. (1670), Schwerin
Gallery.--Immerzeel, ii. 62; Kramm, iii. 765.
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HUGHTENBURGH (Huchtenburg), JAN VAN, born in Haarlem in 1646, died
in Amsterdam in 1733. Dutch school; battle painter, pupil of Thomas
Wyck, in Rome of his brother Jacob, and in Paris (1667) of Van der
Meulen. Before 1670 he returned to Haarlem and began to deal in
pictures. The fame of his collection of battle-pieces, hunts, etc,
led in 1708 to commissions from Prince Eugène, for whom he painted
battle-pieces. First manner best; afterwards became melodramatic
and empty. Works: Battle, National Gallery, London; Cavalry Charge,
Siege of Fortified Town, Louvre, Paris; Prince Eugène on Horseback
(1692), Two Skirmishes, Hague Museum; Skirmish, Portrait of Prince
Willem III., Amsterdam Museum; Horse Market, Skirmish and Landscape,
Rotterdam Museum; Cavalry Charge, Episode of a Battle, Brussels
Museum; Boar-hunt (1674), Aschaffenburg Gallery; Attack of Robbers,
Basle Museum; Plundering of a Village, Stag-Hunt (1674), Berlin
Museum; Skirmish on a Bridge, Attack of Robbers, Brunswick Museum;
Piazza Colonna in Rome, Siege of Namur, Cassel Gallery; Street Life
in Italian Town (1707), Market Square, Cavalry Skirmish on Hill,
do. about Battery, Review, Frolic at Sutler’s Tent, Cavalry Fight,
Copenhagen Gallery; Cavalry Fights (6, two dated 1718, 1720), Dresden
Museum; Storming of a Fortress, Festive Drive of Louis XIV. over
the Pontneuf (1674), Gotha Museum; Cavalry Skirmish, Königsberg
Museum; Cavalry Skirmish, Attack upon Convoy, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Hunting Party Resting, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Battle-pieces (2),
Schleissheim Gallery; Camp-Scenes (2), Attack of Robbers, Visitors in
Military Camp (1694), Battle (1695), Cavalry Fight, Schwerin Gallery;
Surprisal of Wagon by Horsemen, Siege of Namur, Vienna Museum;
Skirmish by Ruins, Czernin Gallery, ib.; The Riverside, Historical
Society, New York.--Immerzeel, ii. 63; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 434;
Kramm, iii. 765; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 426; Van der Willigen, 184.
HUGUENOT, Sir John Everett _Millais_, Mrs. Miller, Preston, England;
canvas, H. 3 ft. 2 in. × 2 ft. 1 in. Incident founded on the order of
the Duc de Guise, that every Catholic should bind a strip of white
linen round his arm on the morning of St. Bartholomew’s Day (Aug.
15, 1572), when the bell of the Palais de Justice should give the
signal for the massacre. The Huguenot of the picture gravely refuses
to permit his Roman Catholic mistress to bind a white scarf around
his arm, as he takes a last embrace; at the same time the rose in her
bosom falls to the ground, shedding its leaves. Royal Academy, 1852;
painted for David T. White, a dealer, for £150, to which £50 was
added after the engraving by T. O. Barlow had proved remunerative.
This picture brought Mr. Millais to the height of his reputation.
The Huguenot was painted from Mr. Arthur, now General Lempriere, and
the Catholic from Miss Ryan, who sat also for the Puritan Maiden in
the Proscribed Royalist. Sketch in water-colours, Mr. C. Langton,
Liverpool.
HUGUET, VICTOR PIERRE, born in Lude (Sarthe); contemporary. Genre
and landscape painter, pupil of Émile Loubon; paints pleasing though
sketchy Eastern landscapes and scenes. Medals: 3d class, 1873; 2d
class, 1882. Works: Caravans; Wells in Algiers; Camels Grazing, Ruins
of Roman Aqueduct in Algeria (1868); Hunting with the Falcon in
Algeria (1874); River Cheliff in Algeria (1879); Wandering Tribe in
Algeria (1882); Evening in the Douars near Biskra (1884).
HULLE, ANSELMUS VAN, born at Ghent in 1594, died about 1668.
Flemish school. Real name Anselmus Hebbelynck. History and portrait
painter, master of the guild at Ghent in 1620, subdean in 1632;
settled early in Holland, where his talent was much appreciated.
Prince Frederik Hendrik sent him to Münster in 1648 to paint the
portraits of the envoys to the Congress there at the close of the
Seven Years’ War, and after Prince Frederik’s death he was appointed
court-painter to the Emperor Ferdinand III. Works: Pietà (2), Ghent
Museum.--Immerzeel, ii. 64; Kramm, iii. 766.
HULSMAN, JOHANN, flourished in Cologne about middle of 17th century.
German school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Augustin Braun;
possessed of great inventive power, and an able colourist, worthy to
be ranked with the best masters of Rubens’ school. Works: View of
Castle and City of Heidelberg (1630), Carlsruhe Gallery; Legend of
St. Nicholas (1643), St. Ursula Church, Cologne; Assumption, Apostle
Church, ib.; Portrait of General Johann von Werth, St. Veronica,
Museum, ib.; Elegant Assembly at Meal Out-of-Doors (1644), Germanic
Museum, Nuremberg.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 335; Nagler, Mon., iii.
981.
HULST, FRANS DE, died in Haarlem, Dec. 29, 1661. Dutch school;
landscape painter, master of the guild at Haarlem in 1631. Resembles
in his early manner Salomon van Ruysdael, in his later, Roelof de
Vries. Works: Dutch City on a Canal, Berlin Museum; Village on Downs
of Scheveningen (1644), Gotha Museum; View of Eastern Gate at Hoorn,
View of Nymwegen, Rotterdam Museum.--Meyer, Gemälde d. köngl. Mus.,
218.
HULST, JAN BAPTIST VAN DER, born at Louvain, March 2, 1790, died
at Brussels in June, 1862. History and portrait painter, pupil of
Louvain Academy under J. G. Geedts; went in 1819 to Paris, and in
1826 to Rome, whence he visited Naples, Florence, and Venice; was
made court-painter to the King of Holland in 1830, and subsequently
member of Amsterdam Academy. Works: Miracle of the Holy Sacrament,
St. James’s, Louvain; Series of Family Portraits, Duke of Arenberg,
Brussels.--Immerzeel, ii. 65; Kramm, vii. 87.
HULST, PEETER VAN, died in Antwerp in 1628. Flemish school; landscape
painter, pupil of Ghielis Vinbons in 1583; his pictures, enlivened
with figures, are vividly conceived and powerful in tone. Not to be
confounded with Peeter Verhulst, alias Floris, of Mechlin, who became
master of the guild at Antwerp in 1589, and took Jan Wildens as a
pupil in 1596, nor with Pieter van der Hulst, called Zonnebloem,
landscape and still-life painter (born at Dordrecht, Feb. 25, 1651,
died in 1708), by whom there is a Village View (1652) in the Städel
Gallery at Frankfort. Work, Flemish Kirmess (1628), Brunswick
Museum.--Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 88.
HULSWIT, JAN, born at Amsterdam, April 11, 1766, died there, Aug.
8, 1822. Landscape painter, pupil of Pieter Barbiers, the younger
(born in 1749); member of Royal Institute of the Netherlands
and of Amsterdam Academy. Works: Landscapes (2, 1807, 1813),
City Gate (1807), Amsterdam Museum; Landscape, Städel Gallery,
Frankfort.--Immerzeel, ii. 66.
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HUMBERT, FERDINAND, born in Paris, Oct. 8, 1842. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Picot, Cabanel, and Eugène Fromentin. A skilful
realist, and vigorous colourist. Medals: 1866, 1867, 1869; 3d class,
1878; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Flight of Nero (1865); Œdipus
and Antigone Finding the Bodies of Eteocles and Polynices (1866),
Aurillac Museum; Ambroise Paré and the Duke de Nemours (1868); Dr.
Nélaton; Massaouda (1869); John Baptist and the Fortune-Teller
(1872); Delilah (1873); Madonna and St. John (1874), Luxembourg
Museum; Christ at the Column (1875), Orleans Museum; Woman taken in
Adultery (1877); Rape of Dejanira (1878); Salome (1880); Child’s
Portrait (1884); The End of the Day (1885).--Bellier, i. 794;
Larousse, Supplement.
HUMBERT, JEAN CHARLES FERDINAND, born at Dardagny, near Geneva,
in 1813, died at Geneva, March 20, 1881. Animal and landscape
painter, pupil in Paris of Ingres and of Diday, but studied chiefly
from nature. Medal, 3d class, Paris, 1842; honorary member of St.
Petersburg Academy, 1860; Russian Order of Stanislaus, 1860; Italian
Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus, 1863. Works: Cattle Drinking, Basle
Museum; Herd Crossing River (1846), Berne Museum; The Ford, Musée
Rath, Geneva.
HUMMEL, KARL, born in Weimar in 1821. Landscape painter, pupil of
Preller, with whom he visited Holland, Norway, Rügen, and Tyrol;
lived in Italy in 1842–46, and painted many landscapes in the ideal
style of Claude Lorrain. Professor at the Weimar Art School since
1859. Works: Mountainous Landscape (1854); Gardens of Armida, View
of Brienz Lake (1858), View in Lauterbrunn Valley (1859), German
Landscape (1860), Leipsic Museum; Rape of Hylas; Seneca’s Tower in
Corsica; Flight to Egypt; Garden of Belriguardo; Tyrolese Landscape;
View of Mühlberg; Views of Bohemian Forest; Monte Rotondo in
Corsica; Ajaccio seen from Campo dell’Oro; Capo di Sorrento; Civita
Castellana; Monte-Soracte.--Müller, 269; Nagler, Mon., iii. 271.
HUMPHREY, OZIAS, born at Honiton, Devonshire, Sept. 8, 1742, died
in London, March 9, 1810. Studied drawing in the school of William
Shipley, London, and miniature painting under Samuel Collins, at
Bath. In 1764 he settled in London, and gained much reputation as a
miniature painter. In 1773 he accompanied Romney to Italy, and in
1785 went to India, where he painted many illustrious natives. His
crayon portraits were much esteemed. He became A.R.A. in 1779, and
R.A. in 1791.--Redgrave; Cat. Nat. Port. Gal.; Cat. S. Kensington
Mus.; Nat. Port. Exhib. (1867); Sandby, ii. 214.
HUNDERTPFUND, LIBERAT, born in Bregenz, Nov. 11, 1806, died there,
March 28, 1878. History and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna
Academy. Returned in 1828 to his native town, painted altarpieces,
and in 1832 went to Munich, where he soon acquired reputation as
a portrait painter. After 1835, when he had moved to Augsburg, he
devoted himself exclusively to religious subjects, and executed
many altarpieces; after 1839, decorated several churches in fresco;
returned to Bregenz in 1876. Works: Portrait of Dillis (1832), New
Pinakothek, Munich; Portrait of Eigner (1835), Augsburg Gallery;
Portrait of Bishop Albert Rieg; Christ on Mount of Olives; St. Peter
on the Waters.--Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 576.
HUNIN, (PIERRE PAUL) ALOUIS, born at Mechlin, Dec. 7, 1808, died
there, Feb. 27, 1855. Genre painter, son of, and first instructed
by, the engraver Mathieu Hunin, then pupil of Braekeleer, and in
Paris of Ingres and Cogniet. Medals: Brussels, 1839, 1845; The
Hague, 1841; Order of Leopold. Works: Girl praying for her Mother
(1834); Young Draughtsman (1836); Paternal Lesson, Marriage Ceremony
(1839); Mother’s Anxiety (1840); Return of Wounded Soldier (1841);
Return from Baptism (1842); Father’s Last Advice (1843); Opening of
the Will (1845), Berlin Museum; Maria Theresa visiting Poor Family;
Distribution of Alms.--Immerzeel, ii. 67; Kramm, iii. 771.
HUNS, BATTLE OF THE, Wilhelm von _Kaulbach_, New Museum, Berlin;
mural painting, staircase hall. In the background, Rome; before it
a field strewn with dead bodies gradually awakening, rising, and
rallying; among them wailing women. At the heads of the two ghostly
hosts are Attila, carried on a shield by the Huns, and wielding a
scourge, and Theodoric with his two sons, behind whom is raised the
banner of the Cross.
HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM, born in Liverpool in 1831. Landscape painter,
pupil of his father, a drawing teacher of Liverpool; is a graduate
and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. First picture to
bring him into notice was Stream from Llyn Idwal, Caernarvonshire,
exhibited at Royal Academy in 1856. Paints in both oil and
water-colours. Among the former are: Debatable Ground (1862); Morning
Mist on Loch Maree (1870); Goring Lock on the Thames (1871); From
Moor to Mount (1874); Summer Days for Me! (1876); On the Coast of
Yorkshire (1877); Norwegian Midnight, Leafy June (1879); Safe in the
Mud, Golden Night (1881); Sonning--Mid-day (1882); North Country
Stream (1883).
HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY, born in London, March 28, 1790, died there, Feb.
10, 1864. Landscape, still-life, and genre painter in water-colours;
pupil of John Varley and of the Royal Academy, where he exhibited, in
1807, Scene near Hounslow, and View near Reading; became, in 1827, a
member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. Among his best
works are: The Laboratory, The Attack, The Defeat, The Orphans, The
Itinerant, Mulatto Girl, Ballad-Singer, Study of Gold--A Smoked
Pilchard, Study of Rose Grey--A Mushroom (1860); Dead Humming-Bird
(1864); Still Life, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.--Ottley; Ruskin, Notes
on S. Prout and Wm. Hunt (London, 1879).
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