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 profited by studying the old masters in Brussels and Paris. Works: Family in Forester's House, Game Poulterer (1846); Hunter's Good Morning (1848); First Instruction in Hunting (1850); Bavarian Rifleman on Outpost (1853); Marshal Wrangel overtaken by General von Werth (1855); Message from Battlefield (1857); Looking for Pheasants (1862); Shakespeare as a Poacher before his Landlord; Visit at the Monastery, The Swedish General Wrangel escaping capture by the Bavarians in 1647 while hunting, New Pinakothek, Munich.—Andresen, iii. 203.

HESS, HEINRICH MARIA VON, born in Düsseldorf, April 19, 1798, died in Munich, March 29, 1863. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of the engraver Karl Ernst Christoph Hess, then from 1813 at the Munich Academy under P. von Langer. Having attracted attention by his paintings when only eighteen, he went in 1821 to Rome, and remained four years. In 1827-47 he was professor at the Munich Academy, and in 1849 became director of all the galleries. His frescos in the Chapel of All Saints (1827-37), and especially those in the Basilica (1837-46), are among the most remarkable modern works of their kind. He was a member of the Vienna, Milan, Stockholm, and Antwerp Academies. Works: Entombment, St. Luke (1815); Holy Family, Faith, Love, and Hope (1817); Charity, Christmas Eve, St. Cecilia, Entombment, Descent from the Cross, several portraits (1817-21); Portrait of Thorwaldsen, Countess Florenzi, Parnassus (1821-26); 67 Scenes from Old and New Testament, and 11 from Church History (1827-37), Life of St. Boniface (1840-45), Church of All Saints, Munich; Last Supper (1846), Refectory, Benedictine Monastery, Munich; Madonna Enthroned, Last Supper (1863, unfinished), Peasants on Pilgrimage to Rome, Portrait of Thorwaldsen, do. of Florentine Lady, New Pinakothek, ib.; Portrait of Thorwaldsen, Schack Gallery, ib.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 278; Brockhaus, ix. 181; Art Journal (1865), 97; Reber-Pecht, ii. 97.

HESS, HIERONYMUS, born in Basle in 1788, died there in 1850. History painter, pupil in Rome of Koch. Works: Murder of Emperor Albrecht by Hans von Schwaben; Battle of the Swiss against the French near St. Jacob, Basle Museum.—Cotta's Kunstbl., 1830, 25; N. Necrol. d. D. 1850; Waagen, D., ii. 283, 290.

HESS, JOHANN MICHAEL, born at Erlau, Hungary, Sept. 18, 1768, died about 1830. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Maurer, won the first prize in 1794, and afterwards became professor of drawing at the Engineer Academy. Works: St. Stephen, Assumption, John the Baptist and John of Nepomuk, Seminary Church, Erlau; Baptism of St. Stephen, Gran Cathedral.—Wurzbach, viii. 424.

HESS, KARL, born in Düsseldorf in 1801, died at Reichenhall, Nov. 16, 1874. Genre and animal painter, youngest brother of Peter, whom, with Wagenbauer, he took for his model. Educated in Munich. Pictures full of truth, character, and poetry. Also an engraver. Works: Thierstück (1835); Starting for the Alp, Alp near Kochel (1848); On Stahremberg Lake; Alp near Schliersee; Munich Buck-Cellar; Pasturage; Tyrolese Landscape, National Gallery, Berlin.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 298; Deutsche Warte (1875), 768; Kunst-Chronik, x. 137.

HESS, KARL ADOLF, born in Dresden in 1769, died at Wilhelmsdorf, near Vienna, July 3, 1849. Battle and horse painter, pupil of Klass; settled about 1809 in Vienna, where he afterwards became professor at the Academy. His many journeys to Hungary, Russia, and Turkey, and in 1829 to England, enabled him to acquire a thorough knowledge of the various breeds of