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 painter, engraver, and lithographer. Studied at the Zürich Art School under Meyer, Huber, and Konrad Gessner, then from 1799 in Zweibrücken, and in 1801 in Munich under Quaglio and Hauenstein. In 1805 he entered the Bavarian army and fought against Napoleon in Spain, Germany, and France; in 1816-25 he painted in Salzburg and Munich; in 1828 was commander in Nauplia, Greece, and military governor of Argos; in 1829-33 painted in Munich, and in latter year went again to Greece and reorganized the army. On his return he was made baron, lieutenant-general, and chief of a department in the ministry of war. His pictures of wars in Spain and Greece are historically interesting, and together with his landscapes and genre pieces artistically meritorious. Works: Bavarian Tree-Fellers (1823), Pallicares near Corinth (1829),	National Gallery, Berlin; Camp of the Philhellenes before Athens, Carlsruhe Gallery; Donkey Drivers in Italian Osteria (1830),	Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Scene in Spanish Guerilla War in 1809 (1824), Leipsic Museum; Views in Greece and Spain (6), New Pinakothek, Munich; Angora Gate at Athens (1838), Königsberg Museum; others in Schleissheim and Stuttgart Galleries; and many in the possession of the royal family of Bavaria.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xi. 295; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1835), 15; Nagler, Mon., ii. 303; Raczynski, ii. 387.

HEIDELOFF, VICTOR PETER, born in Stuttgart in 1757, died there in 1816. German school; history and genre painter, pupil of Stuttgart Academy under Guibal, Harper, and Scotti; became court-painter in 1780, visited Italy in 1782-86, and was professor at the Stuttgart Academy in 1790-93. Works: Four Seasons, Exit from Theatre, Royal Palace, Stuttgart; Two Ceiling Paintings, Stuttgart Academy; Altarpiece, Rottweil. His son and pupil, Karl Alexander (born in Stuttgart, Feb. 2, 1788, died at Hassfurt, Sept. 28, 1865), more noted as an architect, painted Emperor Maximilian at the Grave of Duke Eberhard, in the Royal Palace at Stuttgart; and Knight Toggenburg, in the collection of Count Fries, ib.—Wagner, Gesch. d. Karlsschule, i. 462.

HEIDENREICH, GUSTAV, born in Berlin in 1819, died there in 1855. History painter, pupil in Breslau of A. F. König and in Berlin of Wach. Works: Hertha and Odin, The Nornæ, Play of the Nixies, Combat of Giants, New Museum, Berlin; Material and Mental Development of Greece, Old Museum, ib.—Kunstbl. (1856), 3.

HEIGEL, FRANZ NAPOLEON, born in Paris, May 15, 1813. Portrait and genre painter, son of Josef, pupil of Munich Academy, then studied in Paris; visited Italy repeatedly in 1839-46, also Belgium and France, and became court-painter in Munich. Bavarian medal for Art and Science; Member of Société belge des Aquarellistes. Works: Portraits of Royal Family of Bavaria; National Costume Pictures; Genre Scenes.—Müller, 246.

HEIJDE, JAN VAN DER. See Heyden.

HEIL, DANIEL VAN, born at Brussels in 1604, died in 1662. Flemish school; landscape painter, master unknown; after having acquired considerable reputation, he abandoned his former subjects for conflagrations, which he represented with unusual effect. Works: Conflagration, Lille Museum; Winter Landscape, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Leonard van Heil, his brother (born in Brussels in 1605), painted architecture, flowers, and insects; and Jan Baptist van Heil, a younger brother (born in Brussels in 1609), was a history and portrait painter. He was living in 1661.

HEILBUTH, FERDINAND, born in Hamburg, naturalized in France; contemporary. Genre painter. At first merely a skilful painter of costumes, he developed at Rome his peculiar talent for treating life and manners with that fine sense of humour and insight into character which has won him a wide reputation. Medals: 2d class, 1857, 1859, and 1861; L. of