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 horses, which he painted with great skill. Works: Attack of Saxon Dragoons (1796); March of Cossacks through Bohemia (1799); Twelve Pictures—The Riding School (1800-1807); Horses' Heads (1825).—Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 296; Wurzbach, viii. 425.

HESS, LUDWIG, born in Zürich, Oct. 16, 1760, died there, April 13, 1800. Landscape painter, studied entirely from nature; visited Florence and Rome in 1794. Much influenced by Salomon Gessner. Works: Mont Blanc; Morning in the Alps; Evening on Lago Maggiore; Grütli, Tell's Chapel; collection of his best paintings (37) in Zürich Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 298; Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Ludwig Hess (Zürich, 1800).

HESS, MAX, born in Munich, Oct. 15, 1825, died at Lippspringe, Westphalia, July 19, 1868. History painter, youngest son and pupil of Peter; also studied in Paris and Düsseldorf. Works: Puritans on Guard; Italian Noblemen on a Veranda; Pillage of a Monastery; Torchlight Procession at Düsseldorf, 1857, painted for the Princes of Hohenzollern; Portrait of the Opera-Singer Kindermann.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 299; Blanckarts, 30; Kunst-Chronik, iii. 171.

HESS, PETER VON, born in Düsseldorf, July 29, 1792, died in Munich, April 4, 1871. Genre and battle painter, son and pupil of Karl Ernst Christoph Hess, and from 1806 at the Munich Academy; served in the campaigns of 1813-15, visited Vienna, Switzerland, and Italy (1818), accompanied King Otho to Greece in 1833, and visited Russia (1839) to make studies for a series of battle-*pieces ordered by the Czar Nicolas. One of the foremost modern painters of war life. Founded with Quaglio the Art Union at Munich. Bavarian court-painter and member of the Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and St. Petersburg Academies. Works: Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, Return of Bavarian Officers (1813); Horsemen seeking Shelter, Cossack Scenes (1814); Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube (1817); Abruzzi Peasants before an Inn, Marino—a Robber—defending Himself, Cossacks crossing the Rhine (1819); Defence of a Bridge near Hanau (1820); Skirmish between French and Austrian Cavalry, Austrian Camp (1822); Plundering Cossacks (1820), Sutler Scene, Feast of St. Leonhard in Bavaria (1825), French Train-Wagon surprised by Austrian Uhlans, Pallicares near Athens (1829), National Gallery, Berlin; Encounter at Wörgel in 1809, Skirmish near Pass Strub in 1805, Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube (1828); Wallachian Horses, Entry of King Otho into Nauplia (1835), do. into Athens, The Robber Barbone and Family defending themselves against Gendarmes, View of San Marino, Rest before Inn, Train of Greek Peasants on Sea-Coast, Chamois Hunter, Italian Family at Tivoli, Battle of Austerlitz, Scenes from Greek War of Independence (40 oil sketches for frescos in Arcades of Royal Garden), New Pinakothek, Munich; Duck-Shooting on the Moor, Leipsic Museum; Laying of Corner-Stone of Column of Constitution; Landing of Greek Troops at Nauplia; Battles of Smolensk, Poloczk, Wiasma, Valutina Gora, Krasnoi, Klasigy, and Borodino, Crossing of the Beresina (1839-55); Battle of Leipsic (1854); Battle of Austerlitz (1856).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 300; Brockhaus, ix. 180; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 116.

HESSE, ALEXANDRE (JEAN BAPTISTE), born in Paris, Sept. 30, 1806, died there, Aug. 7, 1879. History painter, nephew and pupil of Auguste Hesse, and pupil of Gros; studied the works of Paolo Veronese at Venice, and formed his style after that master. His pictures are much admired for their skilful composition and careful finish. Medals: 1st class, 1833; 2d class, 1848; L. of Honour, 1842; Officer, 1868; Member of Institute, 1867. Works: Titian's Funeral (1833); Leonardo da Vinci letting loose some Birds (1836); Mower Girl (1837), Girl carrying Fruit (1838), Venetian Concert, Nantes Museum; Death of Brisson (1840); Adoption of Godfrey de Bouillon by Emperor Alexis Comnenus (1842), Versailles Museum; Catalan Fishermen, Young