Page:Cyclopedia of painters and paintings (IA cyclopediaofpain02cham).pdf/313
- ney Sweep; Last Moments of Calvin (1835),
Catherine de' Medici receiving Coligny's Head, Prisoner, Study for Head of Coligny, Musée Rath, Geneva; Savoyard (1843), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Last Visit of Farel to Calvin; Calvin working on Fortifications of Geneva; Servetus led to Execution; Fromment's Sermon on the Molard; Beza reading Bible before Joanna d'Albret; Morning after St. Bartholomew's Night; Luther at Worms.—Illust. Zeitg., March 18, 1865.
HORNY, FRANZ, born in Weimar in
1797, died in Olevano in 1819. Pupil of
Johann Heinrich Meyer in Weimar, and
Joseph Anton Koch at Rome in 1816. Commissioned
to paint fruit and flower decorations
in fresco about the Dante frescos of
Cornelius at the Villa Massimi. He was an
artist of great promise, whose career was
cut short by an early death.—Riegel, 337;
Seubert, ii. 254.
HOROSCOPE, Giorgione (?), Dresden
Gallery; wood, H. 4 ft. 5 in. × 3 ft. An old
man in Oriental costume, with a disc and
compass in his hand, sits at a marble table
in front of a ruined building; to the left, a
woman lying on the ground, playing with a
naked child, while a man in armour stands
by; background, a landscape, with warriors
reposing under a tree. Looks as if it might
have been painted by Girolamo Pennacchi.
Formerly in Palazzo Manfrini, Venice.—C.
& C., N. Italy, ii. 153.
HOROWITZ, LEOPOLD, born at Rozgony,
Hungary, in 1839. Portrait and
genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy
under Meyer, Wurzinger, and Geiger; won
first prize and went in 1860 to Paris, where
he remained eight years, acquiring considerable
reputation; moved in 1868 to Warsaw
to study Polish and Jewish life, which
he has since treated in a number of successful
pictures. Works: Mourning of the
Jews over Jerusalem; Polish Tutor; Harmless
War; The First-Born (1885).—Allgem.
K. C., ix. 664; Müller, 266.
HORSCHELT, THEODOR, born in Munich,
March 16, 1829, died there, April 3,
1871. Battle painter, pupil of Munich Academy
under Anschütz, and of Albrecht Adam;
painted first hunting
scenes and horses, visited
Spain and Algiers
in 1853, and in 1858
went to the Caucasus
and took part in the
Russian expedition. In
1863 returned to Munich
via Moscow and
St. Petersburg, and
painted many military
scenes in oils and water-colours. In 1870
he made sketches during the siege of Strasburg.
Member of St. Petersburg Academy
in 1860, of the Vienna Academy in 1868,
honorary member of the Munich Academy
in 1865; first prize in Paris in 1867, gold
medal in Munich in 1869; military decorations
in 1858-59, for his campaigns in the
Caucasus. Works: Poacher (1850); Halt
before Algiers (1854); Caravan in the Desert;
Seizure of Shamyl; Taking of Earthwork on
Mount Gunib; Cossacks returning from a
Razzia; Russian Artillery in the Tschetschina;
Flight of Lesghian Horsemen;
Street in Tiflis; Attack of Circassians.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xiii. 160; Allgem. Zeitg.,
April 18, 1871; Beilage, 108; Kunst-Chronik,
vi. 115; Münchner Propyläen (1869),
798; Regnet, M. K., i. 195; Theod. Horschelt,
Life and Works (Munich, 1876).
HORSE FAIR (Marché aux Chevaux),
A. T. Stewart Collection, New York; canvas,
H. 8 ft. × 15 ft. 7-1/2 in. A drove of horses, of
various colours and sizes, some with riders,
and some led by men, trotting to right; in
background, left, the dome of the Invalides
in distance; at right, an avenue of trees
with spectators. A masterpiece; cost eighteen
months' labor. Salon, 1853; sold to
Gambart & Co., London, for 40,000 francs,
and exhibited in London and in Manchester
in 1856; purchased in 1857 for about $6,000
by Wm. P. Wright, Weehawken, New Jersey,
and exhibited in New York in October
of that year; thence passed to Mr. Stewart.