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 in the Desert, St. John in Patmos, St. John Baptist in the Desert, Escorial; Two Wandering Musicians, Louvre.

HERREYNS, WILLEM JACOBUS, born in Antwerp, baptized June 10, 1743, died there Aug. 10, 1827. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jacob Herreyns the younger, a decorative painter, and of the Academy, where he won prizes in 1762 and 1764; professor in 1765. After travelling in 1767, he settled in 1771 at Mechlin, where he founded an academy. In 1780 he was visited by Gustavus III. of Sweden, who made him his court-painter, and in 1781 by Joseph II. of Austria. On the change of the Antwerp Academy into a special school for painting, sculpture, and architecture, in 1800, he was again appointed professor; exercised a favourable influence upon modern art in Belgium. Works: Last Sigh of Christ, four portraits (1793, 1809), Museum, Antwerp; Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus (1808), Cathedral, ib.; Adoration of the Magi, Museum, Brussels; Last Supper, St. Nicholas', ib.; Scenes in Life of St. Rumoldus (3), Cathedral, Mechlin; Disciples at Emmaus, St. Francis of Assisi, St. John in the Desert, God Father, St. John's, ib.; Christ on the Cross, Seminary, ib.; Portrait of Emperor Joseph II., do. of a Canon, Museum, ib.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Immerzeel, ii. 35; Michiels, x. 498; Rooses (Reber), 447; Van den Branden, 1255.

HERRING, JOHN FREDERICK, born in Surrey in 1795, died at Tunbridge, Kent, Sept. 23, 1865. Painter of horses and farm-yard scenes, pupil of A. Cooper. He was animal-painter to the Duchess of Kent. Many of his coaching and racing pictures have been engraved and lithographed. Among his best works are: The Baron's Charger, Members of the Temperance Society, Returning from Epsom, Derby Day, Market Day, and Horse Fair; Frugal Meal (1847), National Gallery; Group of Ducks, Deer-Stalker, Glasgow Gallery; Horse at the Trough, National Gallery, Dublin; Mare and Foal (1853), W. T. Walters, Baltimore. His son, John Frederick, paints similar subjects.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Art Journal (1865), 328, 381.

HERRLEIN, JOHANN ANDREAS, born in Würzburg in 1720, died at Fulda in 1796. German school; landscape and genre painter, especially of hunts, peasant frolics, and bathing nymphs, in the style of the Dutch masters; was court-painter to the Prince-Bishop of Fulda. Works: Wood Landscapes with Huntsmen and Peasants (2), Basle Museum; Charlatan pulling Tooth, Darmstadt Museum; Singing Toper, Zither-Player, Fruit-*pieces (2), Boy with Basket, Cassel Gallery; Hunters' Camp in the Woods—Night scene, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; others in Städel Institute, Frankfort.

HERRLICH, PHILIPP, born at Solms-*Laubach, Hesse, in 1818. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Städel Institute, Frankfort, under Rustige; painted at first portraits, mostly in water-colours, and afterwards genre scenes of life and customs in Upper Hesse. Works: Convalescent Child; Hansel and Gretel; Playing Children; The Stork brought It; Before Confirmation; Preparation for School; Grandfather.

HERSENT, LOUIS, born in Paris, March 10, 1777, died there, Oct. 2, 1860. Genre, history, and portrait painter, pupil of Regnault. Took his first subjects from Greek mythology, like David and Girodet, but later also treated historical genre. After 1824 confined himself to portrait painting. Won the 2d grand prize in 1797; L. of Honour, 1819; Member of Institute, 1823; professor, 1825. Works: Narcissus changed into a Flower (1802), Cambrai Museum; Achilles delivering Briseïs to Agamemnon's Heralds (1804); Atala poisoning herself in