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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.
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.