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 *emy and of Piloty. In 1872 he went to Athens and travelled through Asia Minor. Since 1874 has resided in Munich, where he has painted several Oriental subjects and recently some large allegorical pictures. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1878. Works: Joseph interpreting the Dream; Dog-Visitation (1870); The Orphans; News of Sedan (1871); The Chicken Thief (1873); Betrothal of Children in Greece; Pilgrimage of Painters in the East; Child's Confession (1878), Darmstadt Museum; Art and its Genii (1879); Charity, New York Museum.—Brockhaus, viii. 670; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 6; Müller, 228.

HAACH, LUDWIG, born in Dresden in 1813, died in Rome, March 24, 1842. History painter, pupil of the Drawing School at Meissen, and in 1830 of Dresden Academy, then, in 1837, under Hildebrandt, of Düsseldorf Academy; in 1841 went to Rome, where he undermined his health by overwork. In 1836 he decorated a hall in the house of the bookseller Barth at Leipsic with convivial scenes. Works: Christ in the Storm (1838); Isaac and Rebekah (1840); The Three Kings before Herod (1842, unfinished).—Andresen, i. 44; W. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 42.

HAAG, KARL, born at Erlangen, Würtemberg, April 20, 1820. Genre painter, pupil of Nuremberg Art School, continued his studies in Munich and Rome; went in 1847 to England, where he took up painting in water-colours exclusively; visited Italy, and, in 1858, the Libyan Desert, dwelt for months among the Bedouins, and has since made repeated visits to Egypt and other parts of the East. Since 1867 has lived at Hampstead, London. His pictures are distinguished by ethnographic interest as well as characteristic conception and masterly chiaroscuro. Court-painter to Duke of Coburg-Gotha; member of Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours since 1850; honorary member of Société Belge des Aquarellistes; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Ancient Vestibule beneath Temple Area in Jerusalem; Golden Gateway; Holy Rock in Mosque of Omar; Aghile Agha receiving Prince of Wales; Tribe of Anazeh Bedouins leaving Palmyra; Bivouac in the Desert; Arrival at Well in Desert; Preparing Evening Meal; Desert Hospitality; On the Alert; Ready for Defence; Terror of the Desert; Danger in the Desert; Sabine Woman; Bedouin's Devotion; Ruins of Baalbek; Panorama of Palmyra; Sphinx of Ghizeh; Pyramid of Cheops (1880); View in Bavarian Alps; High-Priest at Nablus; A Dragoman; Acropolis at Athens; Young Nubian Woman; Nargileh; Evening at Balmoral; Royal Family ascending Loch-na-Garaidh; Stags brought Home; Queen and Prince Consort fording Pool Tarff.—Art Journal (1883), 71; Brockhaus, viii. 672; Müller, 228; Men of the Time (1884), 508; Portfolio (1878), 81.

HAANEN, GEORG GILLIS VAN, born at Utrecht, Aug. 23, 1807. Genre and landscape painter, son and pupil of Casparis van Haanen (1778-1849); studied from nature on his travels (about 1842) through Germany to Vienna, whence he made study-trips to Hungary, visited Antwerp, and since 1854 seems to have settled at Cologne. His pictures are distinguished for exquisite light effects and fine execution. Member of Amsterdam Academy in 1835. Works: Evening School; Peasant Inn; Quiet Evening, Vienna Museum; Dutch Vestibule (1841), Leipsic Museum; Oak Wood in Hungary, Meadow in the Woods after Rain, Lady with Artist's Sketch-book (1847); Dutch School by Candlelight (1851); Market at Night, View in Bakony Forest—Hungary (1852); Paternal Instruction, Halt before Dutch Inn, Old Dutch Church in Evening Light (1853); Dutch Interior in Sunlight