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Honorary member of St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Petruchio (1866); Before the Tournament (1868); The Armourer and the Glee Maiden (1872); Munchausen (1873); Wanderings of Charles Edward Stuart (1874); Manager's Troubles (1875); Incident in Early Life of Louis XIV. (1877); Summons from the Invisible Judges (1879); Ich Dien (1881); Last Days of Sir Philip Sidney (1882); The Duke's Musicians (1883); In Presence (1884).
HILLS, ROBERT, born at Islington,
June 26, 1769, died in London, May 14,
1844. Animal and landscape painter, pupil
of Gresse; first exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1791, and was one of the founders
of the Society of Painters in Water Colours
in 1804, subsequently its secretary; sometimes
worked conjointly with Robson and
Barret. Works: Deer in a Landscape,
Broken Plough (1804), Landscape with
Cattle (1807), Ox Team (1810), Wild Boars
in a Wood (1826), Stags in Knole Park
(1827), Cows and Sheep, South Kensington
Museum.—Redgrave, 211.
HILTENSPERGER, JOHANN GEORG,
born at Haldenwang, Bavaria, Feb. 22, 1806.
History painter, pupil of Munich Academy
under Peter von Langer, then of Düsseldorf
Academy under Cornelius, with whom, in
1825, he returned to Munich. King Louis
soon after sent him to Naples and Pompeii,
to study antique painting, and after his return
he executed a large number of decorative
works in the Königsbau. In 1846-50
he painted a cycle of pictures in the St. Petersburg
Museum, became professor at the
Munich Academy in 1851, and afterwards
received extensive orders for the decoration
of the Maximilianeum. Works: Duke Albrecht
refusing Crown of Bohemia, Arcade
of Royal Garden, Munich; twenty-seven
Scenes from Comedies of Aristophanes,
Scenes from Hesiod's Poems, Illustrations
to Homer's Hymns, Cycle from Ulysses,
Königsbau, Munich; Pegasus and the Hours,
Apollo and the Muses, Royal Theatre, Munich;
eighty-six Scenes from History of
Greek Painting (1846-50), St. Petersburg
Museum; Herodotus at the Olympian
Games, Emperor Augustus as Protector of
Arts, Maximilianeum, Munich.—Nagler,
Mon., ii. 1057; Reber-Pecht, ii. 57.
HILTON, WILLIAM, born at Lincoln,
June 3, 1786, died in London, Dec. 30,
1839. Son and pupil of William Hilton,
portrait painter (died 1822); also studied
with Raphael Smith, mezzotint engraver,
and in 1806 in school of Royal Academy.
Became an exhibitor in 1803, A.R.A. in 1813,
R.A. in 1819, and keeper in 1827. He won
distinction as a subject painter, his works
being marked by refined taste in design,
and by rich and harmonious colouring,
though they have much depreciated, owing
to the excessive use of asphaltum. Though
his skill was recognized by the profession,
his art was not popular, and want of encouragement
weighed heavily upon him.
Works: Serena rescued by Sir Calepine
(Faerie Queen, vi. 8; 1831), Edith discovering
the Dead Body of Harold (1834), Cupid
Disarmed (1828), Meeting of Abraham's
Servant with Rebecca (1833), National Gallery,
London; Rape of Ganymede (1818),
Christ crowned with Thorns (1825), Royal
Academy, ib.; Venus seeking Cupid at the
Bath of Diana, Sir Richard Wallace; Rape
of Europa (1818), Earl of Egremont; Crucifixion
(1827), Liverpool Institution; Triumphal
Entry of Duke of Wellington into
Madrid; Portrait of Keats, National Portrait
Gallery, London.—Redgrave; F. de
Conches, 436; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise;
Sandby, i. 362.
HILVERDINK, JOHANNES, born at
Gröningen, Jan. 28, 1813. Landscape and
marine painter, pupil of Daiwaille, and of
Amsterdam Academy under Pieneman, visited
Belgium, Germany, and the coasts of
the Mediterranean, won several medals with
his marines, and became member of Amsterdam
Academy in 1852. Works: Coast of
England, Pavilion, Haarlem; Calm Sea,
Museum Fedor, Amsterdam; After the
Storm; The Y near Zeeburg. His son and