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 HAMILTON, JOHN McLURE, born in Philadelphia in 1853. Genre painter; studied at the Royal Academy, Antwerp, under Van Lerius, and at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Gérôme. Exhibited at National Academy in 1877, Le Rire, and at Pennsylvania Academy in 1885, The Old Pioneer and Swiftwater. Studio in Philadelphia.

HAMILTON, PHILIP FERDINAND DE, born at Brussels in 1664, died in Vienna in 1750. Animal and still-life painter, son and pupil of James; was called to the court of Vienna by Charles VI., who employed him extensively. His pictures are frequently to be met with at the country-seats and in the castles of the Austrian nobility, and in the public galleries of Vienna, Prague, Pesth, Munich, Weimar, Dessau, Carlsruhe, Frankfort, and Oldenburg.—Kramm, ii. 636; Wurzbach, vii. 263.

HAMLET, PLAY SCENE IN, Daniel Maclise, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 5 ft. × 9 ft. The play scene in centre, background; in foreground, right, the king and queen and Polonius, with attendants and soldiers; left, Ophelia with Horatio leaning on her chair, and behind, attendants and soldiers; centre, Hamlet lying at feet of Ophelia, gazing on the king's face. Royal Academy, 1842. Engraved by C. Rolls.—Art Journal (1854), 214.

HAMLET WITH YORICK'S SKULL, Sir Thomas Lawrence, National Portrait Gallery, London; canvas, H. 10 ft. × 6 ft. 6 in. Portrait of John Philip Kemble, as Hamlet, apostrophizing the skull of Yorick, the king's jester, which he holds in his hand. Painted in 1801; presented in 1836 by King William IV. Transferred from National Gallery in 1884. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds and others. Sketch sold at Sir T. Baring sale, 1848, for 50 guineas.—Gower, 48; Waagen, Treasures, i. 380.

HAMMAN, (ÉDOUARD JEAN) CONRAD, born at Ostend, Sept. 24, 1819. Historical genre painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy and of De Keyser; settled in 1846 in Paris. Gold medal in Brussels, 1848; medals in Paris: 3d class, 1853; 2d class, 1859, 1863, 1864; Order of Leopold, 1854; L. of Honour, 1864. Works: Preparations for Serenade, Rabelais at the Court of France, Hamlet, Charles IX. and his Surgeon Ambroise Paré, Louis XIII. and Maria de' Medici surprised by Richelieu, Doge Mocenigo and Titian visiting Paul Veronese, Daughter of the Criminal (1847-53); Christopher Columbus; Adrian Willaert playing Organ in Monastery at Bruges, Brussels Museum; Workshop of Stradivarius (1869); The Anatomist Vesalius in Padua; Dante at Ravenna (1859); Entry of Duke Albrecht VII. and Isabella into Ostend; The Heptaméron of Margaret of Angoulême; Childhood of Francis I.; Charles V. instructed by Erasmus (1863), Luxembourg Museum; Women of Siena during the Siege (1864); Festival of Bucentaur in Venice (1867); Masaniello and the Viceroy of Naples; Murillo in his Studio; Huguenot Family in Flight (1870); The Secrets of Madame and of the Soubrette (1873); Father's Memories (1878); Grassy Corner in Normandy (1881); Meadows of Surdif (1882); Farm Yard in Normandy (1883); The Breakers (1884).—Jour. des B. Arts (1860), 138; Kramm, ii. 636; Müller, 167.

HAMMER, (EDMUND) GUIDO, born in Dresden, Feb. 4, 1821. Animal painter and illustrator, pupil of Dresden Academy and of Julius Hübner. In 1847 visited Trieste and North Italy on foot, and returned home by Munich and Nuremberg; has made frequent excursions into the forests of Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia, and the Tyrol; went to Constantinople in 1866. Works: Mort, Saxon Art Union; Two Stags Fighting; Greyhound (1852), Sow with Grice stopped by Dog (1860), Dresden Gallery.—Müller, 235.