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 with Figures; Moonlight on Via Appia, Morning on Lake Avernus (1884).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), i. 275.

HERBELIN, Mme. JEANNE MATHILDE (née Habert), born in Brunoy (Seine-et-Oise), Aug. 24, 1820. Miniature painter, pupil of her uncle, Belloc. Began by painting in oils. Painted the only miniature ever admitted to the Luxembourg. Has visited Italy. Medals: 3d class, 1843; 2d class, 1844; 1st class, 1847, 1848, 1855. Works: Margaret of Spain (after Velasquez); Rembrandt's Virgin; Peasant Woman, Burgundian Shepherdess; The Prayer; A Souvenir; Child holding a Rose; Girl playing with a Fan (1855).

HERBERT, JOHN ROGERS, born at Maldon, Essex, Jan. 23, 1810. History and portrait painter, pupil in London of Royal Academy; began by painting portraits and drawing book-illustrations; first subject picture exhibited, The Appointed Hour. After visiting Italy, exhibited Brides of Venice (1839). His conversion to Roman Catholicism (1840) has had a marked influence on his art. Elected an A.R.A. in 1841, and R.A. in 1846, when he was commissioned to paint frescos in the Houses of Parliament. Corresponding Member of Institute of France. Works: Introduction of Christianity into Britain (1842); Sir Thomas More and his Daughter (1844), National Gallery; St. Gregory teaching his Chant (1845); St. John reproving Herod (1848); Mary Magdalen (1859); Virgin Mary (1860); To Labour is to Pray (1862); Valley of Moses (1868); Adoration of Magi (1874); David while a Shepherd, Our Lord after Resurrection (1878); Youth of St. John the Baptist (1879); Christmas Eve at Bethlehem (1880); Joseph warned that Archelaus Reigns, Flight from the Sword of Herod (1881); Justice not always Slow, Happy Valley, Appointed Hour, Esther with Handmaidens (1882); Madonna, Captive Musician (1883); Treasures of the Home, Ruth with the Reapers at Meal-time, Evening near Windsor, Bend on the Thames (1884). His son and pupil Cyril Wiseman, born in France in 1848, died in London in 1882, was an artist of the brightest promise.—Sandby, ii. 179.

HERBST (Herbster), HANS, born in Strasburg about 1468. German school; master in 1492 of the guild of Basle, where Hans Holbein, the younger, painted his portrait in 1516. In 1500 painted an altarpiece for the convent of St. Dominick. Gave up painting after the Reformation, having scruples about ministering to picture-worship.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1846), 46; W. & W., ii. 483.

HERBSTHOFFER, KARL, born at Pressburg, Hungary, April 17, 1821, died in Paris in 1876. Genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Amerling; went afterwards to Paris, where he became naturalized, and adopted Isabey's style. Works: Arpád elected Duke of the Magyárs (1842); Maskerade at Worms in 16th Century, Tasso reading to Duchess of Ferrara (1843); Hungarian Robbers in Ambush (1843), Schwerin Gallery; Episode during the Inquisition in Holland (1846), owned by State; Iconoclasts (1846), Avery Sale, New York, 1870; Studio of Van Ostade (1849); Daniel in Lions' Den, Lady Macbeth, Episode in Thirty Years' War (1850); Temptation (1852); Raising of Lazarus (1855), owned by State; Studio of Rubens (1857); Partie Carrée, Scene in St. Bartholomew's Night, Duel on Banks of the Seine (1859); Gunsmith, Antechamber in Time of Louis XIII. (1863), both bought by State; Last Resource (1865); Religious Instruction in Jewish Family (1868); Arrest (1871); Convulsionnaires in the Cemetery, After the Pillage (1876).—Bellier, i. 760; Kunst-Chronik, v. 189; Wurzbach, viii. 362; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 215.

HERCULANEUM, Hector Leroux, John G. Johnson, Philadelphia; canvas, H. 3 ft. × 4 ft. Destruction of Herculaneum, 79, by the eruption of Vesuvius, which is seen in background; in foreground, a group of fugitives, mostly women, gazing on the spectacle.—Salon, 1881.

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