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 Violinist (1883); Muse (1884); Slave breaking his Chains, Artist's Portrait, Grenoble Museum; Going to the Well, At the Well, Returning from the Well, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Bellier, i. 747; Larousse; Portfolio (1875), 50; Journal des B. Arts (1860), 167; Meyer, Gesch., 541.

HECK, ROBERT, born in Stuttgart in 1831. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Stuttgart Art School under Rustige; won first prize in 1855, visited Southern France and Italy. Works: Itinerant Preacher, Stuttgart Museum; Reception of the New Parson; Peasants in a City Church; Return of the Landwehrman; Iphigenia on the Shore; Antigone seeking Polynices on the Battlefield (1879); Campo Vaccino; Forum of Nerva; Neapolitans Praying; Italian Woman.—Müller, 245.

HECKE, JAN VAN DEN, born at Quaremonde, East Flanders, in 1620, died at Antwerp, Aug. 22, 1684. Flemish school; genre, still-life, and animal painter, pupil in Antwerp of Abraham Hack; master of the guild in 1642, went to Italy, where he painted for the Duke of Bracciano, and returned to Antwerp in 1644. Said to be one of the best artists of his time. Work: Dead Game and Hunting Implements watched by Dogs (1658), Schleissheim Gallery.—Van den Branden, 1015.

HECKE, NICOLAAS VAN DER, flourished about 1631 in Alkmaar. Dutch school; history and landscape painter, pupil of Jan Nagel. A descendant of Martin Heemskerk. His composition is grand, the colouring fine, and the chiaroscuro excellent. Works: Death Sentence against the Bailiff of Zuyt—Holland; Judgment of Cambyses, Solomon's Judgment, Town Hall, Alkmaar; Tavern Interior (2), Surprisal of Hostile Camp (?), Dresden Gallery.—Immerzeel, ii. 21; Kramm, iii. 651.

HECKEL, AUGUST VON, born at Landshut, Bavaria, in 1824. History and genre painter, pupil of Augsburg Art School, then of Munich Academy under Schorn and Philipp Foltz; visited Paris, Belgium, and Italy, where he remained three years. Works: Chactas and Atala; Mignon; Margaret at the Spinning-Wheel; Emigrants; After the Hail-Storm; Child Found; Mother at the Cradle; Judith with Head of Holofernes; Entry of Louis the Bavarian into Rome; Entry of Max Emanuel into Brussels; Founding of Bath Kreuth, National Museum, Munich; Lear casting off Cordelia; Daughter of Herodias; Cæsar Octavianus and Cleopatra; Morning on Piazza Navona; Evening in the Forum; Cobbler; Villa Mondragone; Maiden of Albano.—Müller, 245.

HEDA, WILLEM CLAASZ, born at Haarlem in 1594, died after 1678. Dutch school; still-life painter of eminence; dean of the guild at Haarlem in 1631 and 1651; painted occasionally also historical subjects. Works: Dessert (1637), Louvre, Paris; Breakfast (1638), Still Life, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Fruits and Vessels, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Breakfast (1634), do. (1635), Old Pinakothek, Munich; do., Schleissheim Gallery; do., Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; do., Darmstadt Museum; do. (2), Carlsruhe Gallery; do. (3, two dated 1646, 1649), Schwerin Gallery; do. (1678), Gotha Museum.—Bode, Studien, 223, 230; Burger, Musées, ii. 320; Immerzeel, ii. 22; Kramm, iii. 651; Nagler, Mon., ii. 135; Van der Willigen, 156.

HÉDOUIN, EDMOND, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, July 16, 1820. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Paul Delaroche and Célestin Nanteuil. Attracted attention by his first picture in the Salon (1844), and followed up his success with many ably treated scenes of French and Spanish peasant life. His later years have been more especially devoted to engraving. Medals: 2d class, 1848; 3d class, 1855, 1857; L. of Honour, 1872. Medal for engraving, 1868; 1st class, 1872. Works: Woodsmen of the Pyrenees (1844); The Halt (1846); Souvenirs of Spain (1847); Arab Mill at Constantine, The Negro Restaurant (1848); Women of Ossan at a Fountain (1850); Evening