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 of Jan Jozef Horemans, the elder, and of Peeter Snyers; went in 1730 to Paris, where he won several medals (1730, 1731, 1732); painted chiefly grisailles. Works: Coat of Arms of Abbey Saint-Michel, do. of Abbot Jacques Thomas, Prudence, Justice, Force, Instruction in Perspective (1761), Antwerp Museum.—Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 149; Van den Branden, 1214.

HEUSCH, GUILLIAM (Willem) DE, born at Utrecht in 16—?, died in 1699 (1712?). Dutch school; landscape painter, said to have studied in Italy under Jan Both, whom he imitated. Dean of guild in Utrecht in 1649. Works: Road with Shepherd and Herd (1629), Dresden Gallery; Landscape with Cattle and Shepherds (1696), Louvre; Italian View with Waterfall, Rotterdam Museum; Italian Landscape (3), Amsterdam Museum; do. (2), Hague Museum; Mountainous Landscape, Cassel Gallery; do., Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do., Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Evening Landscape with Ruin, Vienna Museum; others in Brunswick, Frankfort, Copenhagen, and Stockholm Galleries.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel, ii. 36; Kramm, iii. 686; De Stuers, 47; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 371.

HEUSCH, JACOB DE, born at Utrecht in 1657, died in Amsterdam in 1701. Dutch school; landscape painter, nephew and pupil of Guilliam de Heusch, whom he imitated; went to Italy, where he studied from nature and the works of Salvator Rosa. His pictures so clearly resembled those of his uncle that the members of the Schilderbent in Rome called him Affdruck (copyist). Landscape pleasing, colour good, composition well distributed, enlivened with figures and animals. Works: Ponte Rotto in Rome (1696), Brunswick Museum; Landscapes (2, 1699), Landing-Place on a Lake (1699), Vienna Museum; Mountainous Landscapes (2), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel, ii. 37; Quellenschriften, xiv. 429; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 416.

HEUSS, EDUARD VAN, born at Oggersheim, Rhenish Palatinate, in 1808, died in 1880. History and portrait painter; studied in Munich and Rome, where he joined the artistic circle of Cornelius and companions, and was on intimate terms with Thorwaldsen. On his travels afterwards through Holland, Paris, and London he was much influenced by Rubens and Rembrandt. Painted more than eighty portraits, many life-size, of reigning princes, dignitaries, and representatives of science and art, among them Thorwaldsen and Overbeck. Works: Rape of Europa (1832), Darmstadt Museum; Annunciation, Mater Amabilis, Mater Gloriosa, Mater Dolorosa, Mater Salvatoris, New Pinakothek, Munich.—Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 648.

HEYDEN, AUGUST (JACOB THEODOR) VON, born in Breslau, June 13, 1827. History painter, pupil in Berlin of Steffeck, and in Paris of Gleyre and Couture; won the gold medal, and afterwards repeatedly visited Italy to study the monumental painting of the Renaissance. Works: St. Barbara as Patron Saint of Miners (1864); Luther and Frundsberg before the Imperial Diet, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Luther in Wittenberg; Arion on Waves of the Sea (1868), Berlin Opera-House; Wooing of French Ambassador for Princess Clemence (1869); The Siesta, The Fairy-Tale (1870); Festive Morning (1870), National Gallery, Berlin; Happy Times, The Anglers, Ride of the Walkyries (1872); Leucothea, Martyr at the Stake, Œdipus and the Sphinx, Olof's Wedding Ride (1878); Fresco paintings in