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 HAMMER, HANS JÖRGEN, born in Copenhagen, Dec. 29, 1815. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Eckersberg; entered the army in 1848, took part in the campaign of that year, and took his leave as captain in 1860; visited Italy in 1856-58. Order of Dannebrog, 1861; Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1874. Works: Last Load of Hay (1845); Peasants' Amusement on Sunday (1847); View of Rome (1863); Market-Place at Ariccia (1863); Market-Day at Fredericia (1871); Long-Expected Letter (1877), Copenhagen Gallery.

HAMMER, JOHN J., born in Westhofen, Germany, Jan. 1, 1842. Genre and portrait painter, pupil in Munich from 1876 of Professors Loefftz and Alexander Wagner. Removed to New York in 1884. Works: In the Shade (1881), In the Sun (1882), Kunstverein, Munich; Gleaners (1883), William Baumgarten, New York; Scenes from Pompeii—water-colours (1883); Goose Girl (1883), Munich Exhibition; Little Barefoot (1884); Dreams of Childhood—water-colours (1885); Portrait of Mrs. Margaret Carnegie (1886), Andrew Carnegie, New York.

HAMON, JEAN LOUIS, born at St. Loup, near Plouha (Côtes-du-Nord), May 8, 1821, died at St. Raphaël (Var), May 29, 1874. Genre painter, pupil of Delaroche and of Gleyre; exhibited in 1848 with little success. Gleyre then obtained him employment at Sèvres, where he designed and painted a number of vases, among them one for Queen Victoria (1851), and another for the Empress. Lived in Capri after 1865. Many of his highly poetical and delicately painted pictures have been engraved. Despite great professional success, his life was embittered and shortened by sickness and pecuniary embarrassment. Medals: 3d class, 1853; 2d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1855. Works: Tomb of Christ, Frieze of a Door (1848); Equality in the Seraglio, Parrot playing with two Girls, a Roman Notice (1849); Human Comedy (1852), Luxembourg Museum; My Sister isn't There (1853); Cupid and his Followers, The Orphans, Nurse with Children, It is not I (1855); Tomb of Christ (1865), Marseilles Museum; Chained Butterfly, Enslaved Fly, The Cheap Shop, The Tamer, Love, Women Winding (1857); Cupid Visiting (1859); Aviary, Smuggler, Guardianship, Virgins of Lesbos (1861); Elder Sister, Mountebank (1861), Nantes Museum; Imitator, Day of Betrothal, Aurora (1864); Muses at Pompeii (1866); Promenade (1867); Ophelia on the Bank of the Dark River (1873); Among the Flowers, Museum, New York; Spring Flowers, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1875), xi. 119; Athenæum (1874), i. 835; Hamerton, French Painters; Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 628; Illustr. Zeitg. (1879), i. 315, 321; Claretie, Peintres (1882), i. 49.

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HAMPE, KARL FRIEDRICH, born in Berlin, July 13, 1772, died there, Dec. 29, 1848. Genre and architecture painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Niedlich and Frisch. Member of the Berlin Academy in 1816, professor in 1823, and inspector and librarian from 1829. Works: Castle in Moonlight (1817), Fountain in Gothic Hall (1819), Luther's Room in Wittenberg (1821), National Gallery, Berlin.

HÄNDLER, PAUL, born at Altenweddingen, near Magdeburg, March 16, 1833. History painter, pupil of Berlin and Düsseldorf Academies, then in Dresden of Julius Schnorr; visited Italy in 1859, and afterwards Paris; lived in Dresden in 1861-67, and then settled in Berlin, where he is professor at the Royal Art School. Works: Crucifixion (1861); Disciples at Emmaus (1862); Battle at Möckern (1864); Christ bearing the Cross (1865); Wall Paintings for Church in Hillersleben (1867); Doubting Thomas