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 with Italian Shepherds, Copenhagen Gallery.—Immerzeel, ii. 27; Kramm, iii. 665.

HELMSDORF, FRIEDRICH, born at Magdeburg in 1784, died at Carlsruhe in 1852. Landscape painter, in 1809 settled in Strassburg, where he had many pupils; visited Italy twice, and lived there in 1816-20. Works: Tasso's Oak; Lake of Nemi.

HELST, BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER, born at Haarlem (or Dordrecht) in 1613 (?), died in Amsterdam, buried Dec. 16, 1670. Dutch school; portrait painter, either studied under Frans Hals or took him as his model, and became one of the greatest portrait painters of his time. Lived chiefly at Amsterdam, where in 1654 he and Nicolaas van Helt-Stokade founded the guild of St. Luke. His earliest picture is dated 1639. Sometimes painted sacred and mythological subjects. Works: Banquet of the Civic Guard (1648), Syndics of the Arquebusiers (1657), Portraits of Vice-Admiral Kortenaar, Andries Bicker, Gerard Bicker, Mary Henrietta Stuart, Lieutenant-Admiral Van Nes and Madame Van Nes (1668), Female Portrait (1646), Male do. (1650), Amsterdam Museum; The Archers (2, 1639 and 1656), Hôtel de Ville, Amsterdam; Portrait of Paul Potter (1654), Hague Museum; Portrait of a Preacher (1638), two others (1646), Portrait of Lady and Gentleman (1654), do. of Daniel Bernard (1669), Rotterdam Museum; Man with emptied Glass (1649), Oldenburg Gallery; Aristocratic Young Couple (1661), Carlsruhe Gallery; Male and Female Portrait, Man with a Ring (1655), Gotha Museum; Female Portrait (1655), Weimar Museum; Male do. (1663), Schwerin Gallery; do. (2, one dated 1651), Copenhagen Gallery; Portraits (3, 1642 and 1643), Cassel Gallery; do. (2), Brunswick Museum; do. (3, one dated 1654), Dresden Gallery; Portrait of Admiral Tromp, do. of Prince de Chabanais, Male (1649) and Female Portrait, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dutch Family at Dinner, Innsbruck Museum; Syndics of the Arquebusiers (1653, study for Amsterdam picture), Portrait (1655), do., Louvre; Presentation of the Betrothed (1647), Family Group (1652), New Market in Amsterdam (1666), Portrait of Govaert Flinck, Male Portrait (1670), three other portraits, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portraits of himself and Wife (1664), Brussels Museum; German Baron and his Family, Portrait of a Lady, Historical Society, New York. Others in Antwerp, Berlin, Geneva, Stockholm, Vienna, and London Galleries. By his son and pupil, Lodewyk, is a Portrait of Admiral Stellingwerf (1670), in the Amsterdam Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xi. 709; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Bode, Studien, 112; Burger, ii. 218; Gower, Figure Painters, 31; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 129; Scheltema, Amstel's oudheid, i. 159.

HELSTED, AXEL THEOFILUS, born in Copenhagen, April 11, 1847. Genre painter, son and pupil of Frederik Ferdinand Helsted (1809-75), then pupil of Copenhagen Academy, where he took a medal in 1864; went in 1869 to Paris, where he studied under Bonnat, and thence to Italy. Works: Portrait of Professor Stephens (1869); do. of the painter Küchler (1878); From the Villa Borghese (1876); After the