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Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy and of Weimar Art School under Theodor Hagen; visited the Baltic coast, Westphalia, Hanover, and Thuringia, and settled in Düsseldorf. Works: Giant's Grave, By a Woodland Cemetery (1877); Solitude, After Storm-Tide (1878); Twilight, Enchanted Castle (1879); Ancient German Offering Grove, At the Forest-Border (1880).—Müller, 263.

HOFMANN, HEINRICH, born in Darmstadt, March 19, 1824. History and portrait painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Theodor Hildebrandt and Schadow, then of Antwerp Academy (1845); visited Holland and Paris, and returned to his native city, where he painted portraits; was in Munich in 1847, in Darmstadt and Frankfort in 1848-51, and in Dresden in 1851-53. Went in 1854 to Italy, where he spent four years, mostly at Rome, and was much influenced by Cornelius. Removed to Dresden in 1862, became honorary member of the Academy in 1868, and professor in 1870. Works: Scene from History of Longobards (1844), Würtemberg Art Union; Entombment (1846), Rhenish Art Union; Scene from Romeo and Juliet (1847), Cologne Art Union; King Enzio in Prison (1851), Freiburg Gallery; Taking of Christ (1858), Darmstadt Museum; Othello and Desdemona; Shylock and Jessica; St. Cecilia; Venus and Cupid; Christ and the Adulteress, Christ in the Temple, Dresden Gallery; Christ's Sermon on the Lake, National Gallery, Berlin; Apotheosis of Ancient Heroes, Court Theatre, Dresden; Betrothal of Albrecht the Brave with Princess Sidonie (fresco), Albrechtsburg, Meissen; Dornröschen, Leda.—Brockhaus, ix. 305; Müller, 263.

HOFMANN, RUDOLF, born in Darmstadt in 1820, died there in 1882. Genre and history painter, pupil in Darmstadt of Lucas, then of Düsseldorf and Munich Academies; studied for three years in Rome, and became professor in Darmstadt and inspector of the Museum there. Works: Scene from Peasants' War, Darmstadt Museum; twenty-three scenes from History of the House of Ysenburg-Büdingen (1852). Frescos: Minstrels' War, Scenes from Niebelungen Lied, Parsifal, Tristan and Isolde, all at Wartburg near Eisenach.—Müller, 264.

HOFMANN, SAMUEL, born in Zürich in 1592, died in Frankfort in 1648. Portrait painter, pupil in Zürich of Gotthard Ringli, then in Antwerp of Rubens; worked at Amsterdam, Zürich, and Frankfort after 1638. Works: Equestrian Portrait of Peter König (1631), Freiburg Museum; Duke Bernhard of Weimar (1639), Entry of Gustavus Adolphus into Frankfort, Birth of Erichthonius, Female Portrait, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; The Zinsgroschen, Still Life, Portraits, Zürich City Library and Art Union; Portrait of a Lady, Städel Gallery, Frankfort.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 637; Füessli, i. 155.

HOFMANN-ZEITZ, LUDWIG, born in Zeitz, Nov. 11, 1832. Genre painter, pupil in Munich of Schwind. Works: Blue Floweret; Ruined and Dead; Francesca da Rimini and Paolo; Surprise.—Müller, 264.

HOGARTH, SCOTTISH. See Allan, David.

HOGARTH, WILLIAM, born in London, Dec. 10, 1697, died there, Oct. 26, 1764. Son of Richard Hogarth, schoolmaster; apprenticed to Ellis Gamble, silversmith, to learn to engrave arms and cyphers on plate; when his time had expired (1718), became a student in St. Martin's Lane Academy, where he learned to draw. About 1720 he set up in business as a silversmith, and began to engrave book-plates, the first of his prints to attract notice being a series of illustrations for Butler's Hudibras (1726). In 1730 he clandestinely married the daughter of Sir James Thornhill, serjeant-painter to the