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 HESS horses, which he painted with great skill. Marino n Robber defending Himself, Works: Attack of Saxon Dragoons (179(1) ; Cossacks crossing the Rhine (1819); Defence March of Cossacks through Bohemia of a Bridge near Hanau (1820) ; Skirmish (1799); Twelve Pictures The Riding School between French and Austrian Cavalry, Aus- (1800-1807) ; Horses' Heads (18-25). All- trian Camp (1822); Plundering Cossacks gem. d. Biogr., vii. 2%; Wurzbach, viii. (1820), Sutler Scene, Feast of St. Leonhard 425. in Bavaria- (1825), French Train-Wagon sur- HESS, LUDWIG, born in Zurich, Oct. prised by Austrian Uhlans, Pallicares near 16, 1760, died there, April 13, 1800. Land- Athens (1829), National (Jallery, Berlin; scape painter, studied entirely from nature ; Kncounter at W<">rgel iu iSd'.l, Skirmish near visited Florence and Rome iu 17'.)4. Much Pass Strub in 1805, Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube influenced by Salomon Gessner. Works: (182S); Wallachian Horses, Entrv of King Mont Blanc; Morning iu the Alps; Even- Otho into Nauplia ( 1835), do. into Athens, ing on Lago Maggiore ; (iriitli, Tell's Chapel ; The Robber Barbone and Familv defending collection of his best paintings (37) in Zurich themselves against Gendarmes, View of San Gallery. Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 298 ; Joh. Marino, Rest before Inn, Train of Greek Heinr. Meyer, Ludwig Hess (Zurich, 1800). Peasants on Sea-Coast, Chamois Hunter. HESS, MAX, born in Munich, Oct. 15, Italian Family at Tivoli. I5;ittle of Auster- 1825, died at Lippspringe, Westphalia, July litz, Scenes from Greek War of Indcpend- 19, 18C8. History painter, youngest son ence (40 oil sketches for frescos in Arcades and pupil of Peter; also studied in Paris of Royal Garden), New Pinakothek. Munich ; and Dilsseldorf. Works: Puritans on Guard ; Duck-Shooting on t lie Moor, Leipsic Mu>c- Italian Noblemen on a Veranda ; Pillage of um ; Laying of Corner-Stone of Column of a Monastery; Torchlight Procession at Constitution; Landing of Greek Troops at Dilsseldorf, 1857, painted for the Princes Nauplia : Battles of Smolensk, Poloczk, Wi- of Hohenzollern ; Portrait of the Opera- asma, Yalutina Gora, Krasnoi, Klasigy, and Singer Kiudermann. Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. Boroilino, Crossing of the Beresina (1.S39 299: Blanckarts, 30; Kunst-Chronik, iii. 55); Battle ofLeipsie (1854); Battle of AUK- 171. terlit/. (185(i). Allgem. d. Biogr.. xii. 300; HESS, PETER VON, born in Diisseldorf, Brockhaus, ix. 180 ; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 1 1C. July 2!), 1792, died in Munich, April 4, 1871. HESSE, ALEXANDRE (.IH.VX BAI'- Genre and battle painter, son and pupil of TISTE). born in Paris, Sept. :!, ISOi!, Karl Ernst Christoph Hess, and from 180<> died there, Aug. 7, 1879. History painter, at the Munich Academy ; served in the nephew and pupil of Auguste Hesse, and campaigns of 18115-15, visited Vienna, Swit- pupil of Gros; studied the works of Paolo zerland, and Italy (1818), accompanied King Veronese at Venice, and formed his style Otho to Greece in 18158, and visited Russia after that master. His pictures are much (1839) to make studies for a series of battle- admired for their skilful composition and pieces ordered by the Czar Nicolas. One careful finish. Medals: 1st class, 18:5:5; 2d of the foremost modern painters of war life, class, 1848; L. of Honour, 1842; Officer, Founded with (^uaglio the Art Union at 18(>8 ; Member of Institute, 18(!7. Works: Munich. Bavarian court-painter and mem- Titian's Funeral (1833); Leonardo da Vinci her of the Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and St. letting loose some Birds (1836); Mower Girl Petersburg Academies. Works : Battle of (1837), Girl carrying Fruit (1838), Venetian Arcis-sur-Aube, Return of Bavarian Officers Concert, Nantes Museum ; Death of Brissou (1813); Hoi-semen seeking Shelter, Cossack (1840); Adoption of Godfrey de Bouillon Scenes (1814); Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube by Emperor Alexis Comnenufl (1842), Ver- (1817) ; Abruzzi Peasants before an Inn, sailles Museum ; Catalan Fishermen, Young Wl