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Committed for Trial (1878); Gifts of Fairies, Daughter of the House, Absconded (1879); Home Again (1881); Did you ever kill Anybody, Father? (1884); and many portraits.—Meynell, 167; Art Journal (1876), 9; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 498.
HOLLAND, JAMES, born at Burslem,
England, in 1800, died in London in 1870.
Landscape and flower painter; went to London
in 1819, and devoted himself to flower
painting, but after a visit to Paris in 1831
took up landscape painting. He made many
sketching tours on the Continent, and exhibited
at the Royal Academy, the Society
of Painters in Water Colours, and the Society
of British Artists, of the last two of
which he was a member. Works: Nymwegen,
Near Blackheath, and several in water
colours, South Kensington Museum; Port
of Genoa, Liverpool Gallery; Interior of
Milan Cathedral, Tomb of the Scaligers at
Verona, St. Mary's Chapel at Warwick,
Views in Venice (6), Gresham College;
Greenwich Hospital, Bridgewater Gallery.
HOLLAND, Sir NATHANIEL DANCE,
Bart, born in London in 1734, died at
Carnborough House, near Winchester, Oct.
15, 1811. Real name Nathaniel Dance, son
of George Dance, architect; took name of
Holland on his marriage with a wealthy
widow in 1790, was an M. P. for many
years, and created a baronet in 1800. Pupil
in art of Frank Hayman; spent eight or
nine years in Italy, and on his return won
success as a painter of portraits and of historical
subjects. In 1768 he was one of the
foundation members of the Royal Academy.
Works: Portraits of Earl Camden, Lord
Clive, Arthur Murphy, Lord North, National
Portrait Gallery, London.—Redgrave; F.
de Conches, 311.
HOLLINS, JOHN, born in Birmingham,
June 1, 1798, died in London, March 7, 1855.
Subject and portrait painter; went in 1822
to London, where, with the exception of two
years spent in Italy (1825-27), he was a constant
exhibitor. Elected an A.R.A. in 1842.
Work: Lord Tenterden, National Portrait
Gallery, London.—Cat. Nat. Port. Gal.
HOLM, PER DANIEL, born at Malingsbo,
Dalecarlia, Sept. 11, 1835. Landscape
painter, pupil of Nils Anderson and of
Stockholm Academy, where in 1862 he received
a medal; visited the north of Scandinavia
in 1864, and later, Düsseldorf, Munich,
Carlsruhe, where he studied under
Gude, and Paris. Works: View of Qvick-*jock
in Lapland; Saggatsen in Lapland;
From the Mountains of Westmanland (1869),
Stockholm Museum.—Müller, 264.
HOLMBERG, AUGUST, born in Munich,
Aug. 1, 1851. Genre painter, pupil of the
Munich Academy under Wilhelm Diez, visited
subsequently Berlin, Dresden, and Vienna,
in 1875 Italy, and in 1878 Paris. His
genre pieces are well composed and coloured.
Works: Huntsman's Still Life; Windmill
in a Storm; Difference of Opinion (1873);
Choir in a Church at Florence, Tobacco
College of Frederick William I. (1879); The
Recovered Monogram (1880).—Müller, 264;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., xviii. 403.
HOLSTEYN, CORNELIS, born at Haarlem
about 1620. Dutch school; history
painter, son and pupil of Pieter (glass
painter and engraver, born in Schleswig
about 1580, died in Haarlem in 1662); flourished
in Amsterdam about 1651, and was
dean of the guild at Delft in 1661-62.
Works: Triumph of Bacchus; Lycurgus
making his Nephew his Heir, Orphan Asylum,
Amsterdam; Pyramus and Thisbe,
Parable of the Vineyard (1647), Haarlem
Museum; Bath-room, Cassel Gallery; Angel
commanding St. Philip to baptize Queen
Candace's Chamberlain, Schleissheim Gallery.—Immerzeel,
ii. 46; Kramm, iii. 714;
Van der Willigen, 179.
HOLY CONVERSATION. See Santa
Conversazione.
HOLY FAMILY, Mariotto Albertinelli,
Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, round, 2 ft.
9 in. diameter. The Virgin kneeling in
adoration; Jesus lying on ground, receiving
a cross from a kneeling angel; in back-