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Honour, 1861; Officer, 1881. Works: Titian the Younger with his Lady Love (1857), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Luca Signorelli by the Dead Body of his Son (1859), Orphans, Watteau and his Sweetheart, Male Portrait, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Absolution in St. Peter's; The Mont-de-Piété (1861), Luxembourg Museum; On Monte Pincio, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; In His Eminence's Waiting Room; Cardinal entering his Carriage; Spring-time; On the River-side, In the Fields, William Astor, New York; The Seine; Fine Weather (1881); Idlers in Anteroom of the Vatican (1882); Promenade (1884); Lawn-tennis, Presentation (1885).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 443; Quarterly Rev., i. 253.
HEILMAYER, KARL, born in Munich,
March 5, 1829. Landscape painter, son of
the portrait and landscape painter Emil H.,
pupil of Munich Academy; travelled extensively
in Germany, Italy, and France. Works:
Foggy Morning on Lake Starnberg; Moon-*light
Night in Normandy; The Lido in
Venice; View on Via Appia near Rome;
Smugglers crossing Mountain, New Pinakothek,
Munich.—Müller, 246.
HEIM, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, born at
Belfort, Jan. 15, 1787, died in Paris, Oct.
20, 1865. History painter, pupil of Vincent,
won grand prix in 1807, and lived in
Rome about six years. With the rise of
the romantic school he lost his popularity,
and was called by the critics the fossil of
the Academy, but his merits were again
recognized at the Salon of 1855. Medals:
1st class, 1812; Member of Institute, 1829;
Professor, 1831; L. of Honour, 1825; Officer,
1855; grand medal of honour, 1855.
Works: Arrival of Jacob in Mesopotamia
(1812), Bordeaux Museum; Ptolemæus
Philopator (1817), Amiens Museum; Joseph's
Coat brought to Jacob (1817), Lyons Museum;
Raising of Lazarus, Titus pardoning
Conspirators; Martyrdom of St. Cyr and
of St. Juliet (1819), St. Gervais, Paris;
Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, Notre Dame,
Paris; Rescue of King of Spain; Capture
of Temple of Jerusalem (1822); St. Hyacinth
reviving a Drowned Person (1827),
Notre Dame, Paris; Charles X. distributing
Rewards to Artists at Exhibition of 1824
(1827), Louvre; Andrieux reading in the
Lobby of the Comédie-française (1847); Defence
of Burgos, Louis Philippe receiving
the Deputies come to offer him the Crown
(1834), do. receiving the Chamber of Peers,
Champ de Mai of 1815, Battle of Rocroy,
Portraits of Marquis de Chamilly, Duc de
la Fertè, Comte d'Estrades, Marquis de
Bournonville, Versailles Museum; Vesuvius
receiving Heavenly Fire from Jupiter, The
Revival of the Arts, ceilings in Louvre;
Charlemagne causing his Capitularies to be
read, Louis the Fat freeing the Towns, St.
Louis causing the Publication of his Ordinances,
Louis XII. organizing the Chamber
of Accounts, Defeat of the Cimbri and Teutons
(1853), Palais Bourbon; Victory of Judas
Maccabæus (1855); Subject from History
of the Jews (1824).—Bellier, i. 751;
Larousse; Gaz. des. B. Arts (1867), xxii.
40; Meyer, Gesch., 167.
HEIMERDINGER, FRIEDRICH, born
in Altona, Jan. 10, 1817, died in Hamburg,
Oct., 1883. Animal and still-life painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Theodor
Hildebrandt; continued his studies in Munich,
whence he visited Switzerland. He
afterwards founded a preparatory school for
artists in Hamburg. Works: Foxes contesting
Booty (1848), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Scene from Elf Life (1860); Lurking Fox
(1861); Nut-Cracker (1871); Plover (1875);
Rabbit and Frog; Fen-Duck; Fruit-Seller.—Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 9; Müller, 247.
HEINE, WILHELM, born in Düsseldorf,
April 18, 1813, died June 29, 1839. Genre
painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy, and
an artist of great promise at the time of his
premature death. Works: Poachers, Smuggler
(1834); Tramp (1835); Peasant Cottage
(1836); Criminals at Church (1837),
Leipsic Museum; replica (1838), National
Gallery, Berlin.—W. Müller, Düsseldorf K.,
289.