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 Governor Morgan, Dr. C. R. Agnew (1883); Dr. Wyman, Miss Horsford, and others (1885).—Tuckerman, 339.

HEAPHY, THOMAS, born in London, Dec. 29, 1775, died Nov. 19, 1835. Was originally a dyer, then an engraver, and finally devoted himself to water-colour painting; in 1800 he exhibited two portraits at the Royal Academy, and became a student in the Academy schools. In 1804 his first subject picture, The Portland Fish-Girl, was well received, and in 1809 his Hastings Fish Market brought him reputation. He was one of the earliest members of the old Water Colour Society, but left it in 1812; and was one of the founders and the first president in 1824 of the Society of British Artists, but withdrew from it in 1829. Visited Italy in 1831, and on his return engaged in the formation of the new Water Colour Society, of which he was one of the first members. He painted miniatures of many distinguished people, and was portrait painter to the Princess of Wales. His eldest daughter, Miss Heaphy, exhibited miniatures at the Royal Academy from 1822 to 1845; and another daughter, Elizabeth Heaphy, from 1838 to 1844.

HEAPHY, THOMAS FRANK, born in 1813, died Aug. 7, 1873. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of Thomas Heaphy; began as a portrait painter, first exhibiting at Royal Academy in 1831, but after 1858 painted chiefly historical pieces. Member of Society of British Artists. Works: Mary Magdalen going to the Sepulchre (1846); Infant Pan educated by Wood Nymphs (1850); Parting of Catherine and Bianca (1853); Kepler in Poverty taken for a Fortune-Teller (1863); Palissy the Potter taken for a Coiner (1864); Unexpected Inheritance (1865); Mary Stuart at Tutbury Castle (1872).

HEARTS ARE TRUMPS, John Everett Millais, J. H. Secker, London; canvas, H. 5 ft. 4 in. × 7 ft. 5 in. Three English ladies (Misses Armstrong) seated at a card table, playing whist with a dummy. Royal Academy, 1872; painted for Walter Armstrong; at his sale (1876) 1,300 guineas; Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.

HÉBERT, (ANTOINE AUGUSTE) ERNEST, born at Grenoble, Nov. 3, 1817. Genre painter, pupil of David d'Angers and Paul Delaroche. Abandoned the law for painting on account of the success of a picture sent to the Salon, which was bought by the government. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1839. Made repeated visits to Italy. His style is poetical, but often too sentimental. Medals: 1st class, 1851 and 1855; 2d class, 1867; L. of Honour, 1853; Officer, 1867; Commander, 1874; Member of Institute, 1874; director of the French School of Art in Rome from 1866 to 1873, and again in 1885. Works: Tasso in Prison, Cup found in Benjamin's Sack (1839); Two Odalisques, Copy of the Sibyl Delphica (1840-41); Oriental Revery, The Siesta, Almeh, Italian Priest, Morning in the Woods, Peasant of Guérande making Butter (1847 and 1848); La Malaria (1850), Kiss of Judas (1853), Luxembourg; Crescenza, Fiénaroles, Girls of Alvito (1855), Rosa Nera at the Fountain; Girls of Cervaro (1859), Female Portrait, Luxembourg; Portrait of Princess Marie Clotilde, Street in Cervaro (1861); Young Girl at the Well (1863), Empress Eugénie; Pasqua Maria (1863), Baroness James de Rothschild; Black Pearl, Type of Italian Woman (1866); Adam and Eve driven from Paradise (1867); Pastorella, Lavandaia (1869); Morning and Evening of Life (1870); Popular Italian Muse (1872); Madonna de Délivrance, Church at Grenoble; do., Study, Mrs. Mary J. Morgan's Collection, New York; Madonna Addolorata; Woman Knitting (1873); Muse of the Woods (1877); The Sultana (1879); Saint Agnes (1881); Little