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 iirxix 28, 1878. History and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy. Returned in 1828 to his native town, painted altarpieces, and in 1832 went to Munich, where he soon acquired reputation as a portrait painter. After 1835, when lie had moved to Augs- burg, he devoted himself exclusively to religious subjects, and executed many altar- pieces ; after 183!), decorated several church- es in fresco ; returned to Broken/ in lsT(i. Works: Portrait of Dillis (1832), New Pina- kothek, Munich ; Portrait of Eisner (ls:!5), Augsburg Gallery ; Portrait of Bishop Al- bert Ric'g ; Christ on Mount of Olives ; St. Peter on the Waters. Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 570. HUNIN. (PIERRE PAUL) ALOl'IS, born at Mechlin, Dec. 7, 1808, died there, Feb. 27, 1855. Genre painter, son of, and tirst instructed by, the engraver Mathieu Hunin, then pupil of Braekeleer, and in Paris of Ingres and Cognict. Medals: Brussels, 1839, 1845; The Hague, 1841; Order of Jjeopold. Works : Girl praying for her Mother (1834); Young Draughtsman (lS3li); Paternal Lesson, Marriage Ceremony (183!)); Mother's Anxiety (1840) ; Return of Wound- ed Soldier (1S41) ; Return from Baptism (1842) ; Father's Last Advice (1843) ; Open- ing of the Will (1845), Berlin Museum ; Maria Theresa visiting Poor Family ; Dis- tribution of Alms. Immerxeel, ii. (!7 ; Krainm, iii. 771. HUNS, BATTLE OF THE, Wilhelm von Kaitllwh, New Museum, Berlin ; mural painting, staircase hall. In the background, Rome ; before it a field strewn with dead bodies gradually awakening, rising, and ral- lying ; among them wailing women. At the. heads of the two ghostly hosts arc Attila, earned on a shield by the Huns, and wield- ing a scourge, and Theodoric with his two sons, behind whom is raised the banner of the Cross. HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM, born in Liverpool in 1831. Landscape painter, pu- pil of his father, a drawing teacher of Liver- pool ; is a graduate and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. First picture to bring him into notice was Stream from Llyn Idwal, Caernarvonshire, exhibited at Roval Academy in 185(i. Paints in both oil and water-colours. Among the former are : De- batable Ground (18IJ2) ; Morning Mist on Loch Marcc (1870); Goring Luck on the Thames (1S71); From Moor to Mount (1*74) ; Summer Days for Me! (1871!) ; On the Coast, of Yorkshire (1S77) ; Norwegian Midnight, Leafy June (IsT'.l); Safe in the Mud, Golden Night (18M) ; Sonning Mid- day (18S2) ; North Countrv Stream (lss:'>). HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY, born in London, March 28, 17'.ni, died there, Feb. 1(1, ISI',4. Landscape, still-life, and ^eniv painter in water-colours; pupil of John Varley and of the Royal Academy, where he exhibited, in ISO", Scene near Hounslow, and View near Heading : became, in 18'27, a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. Among his best works are: The Laboratory. The Attack. The Defeat, The Orphans, The Itinerant, Mulatto Girl, Ballad-Singer, Study of Gold A Smoked Pilchard, Studv of I Jose Grey A Mushroom (I8(i(l); Dead Humming-Bird (Isiil); Still Life, W. T. Walters. Baltimore.--* )ttle ; liiiskin. Notes on S. Prtnit and Win. Hunt (London, 187it). HUNT, WILLIAM London. April, 18-J7. Pupil of John Varley, and in 18J5 of the Royal Academy, where he exhibited his first picture, Hark ! ill 1841!. In 184!) he took his stand with Millais ami others of the so-called Pre- Haphaelites, and has since been one of the most earnest apostles of that school of painting. In 1854-55 he visited Egypt and Syria, and has since spent much time in the East, especially in Jeru- salem, where several of his pictures wero painted. Works : Little Nell and her Grand- 110LMAN. born in 305