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 *iam visiting the Wounded at Versailles; Portraits of German Emperor, of Bismarck, Moltke, and General Steinmetz.—Müller, 256; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 188.

HEYERDAHL, HANS, born in Sweden; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy and in Paris of Bonnat; now in Florence. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1878. Works: Nymph talking to Magpie (1880);	Flower-Seller, "How Much?" (1881);	Dead Child, The Visit (1882); Sleeping Nymph and Satyr, Girl lighting Fire (1883); Bather (1884); Norwegian Landscape, Young Girl (1885).

HEYMANS, ADRIEN JOSEPH, born in Antwerp, June 11, 1839. Landscape painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy at the age of fifteen, but formed himself chiefly through study of nature and of the works of Corot, Millet, and Daubigny in Paris. In 1880 he exhibited about sixty of his pictures in Brussels, with great success. Works: Sunset on Heath (1875), Ghent Museum; Return of the Herd; Moonrise; Morning Mist by the Sea; Three Marines; Sunrise; Snow Landscape with Birch Trees; Cows at Pasture; Evening on the Scheldt; Old Avenue of Bloemeschot; Spring Morning in the Campine, Ghent Museum; Swamp, Evening Landscape; Snow-Storm.—Müller, 257.

HEYN, AUGUST, born at Sophienau, Meiningen, Aug. 10, 1837. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy, and of Raupp and Defregger; copied in the Munich and Dresden Galleries, visited Italy, South Tyrol, Hesse, the Black Forest, and England. Works: Scenes from Children's World and Peasant Life; To Her! To Him!; Little Barber (1880).—Müller, 257.

HICKEL, ANTON, born at Böhmisch-Leipa, Bohemia, in 1745, died in Hamburg, Oct. 30, 1798. German school; portrait painter, pupil of his brother Josef and of Vienna Academy; went about 1777 to France, where he painted Marie Antoinette, then to London, where he made a name by his picture of the House of Commons, containing ninety-six life-size portraits (1793-95), now in National Gallery, London (presented by Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, 1885); Turk with Slave making Music, Schleissheim Gallery; Portrait of Burgomaster Debary, Basle Museum. One of his best works is the portrait of the poet Klopstock.—Allgem. Kunst-Chronik, ix. 567; Wurzbach, ix. 2.

HICKEL, JOSEF, born at Böhmisch-Leipa in 1736, died in Vienna, March 28, 1807. Portrait painter, first instructed by his father, then pupil of Vienna Academy under Martin van Meytens; went to Italy in 1768, painted the portraits of many notabilities in Milan, Parma, and Florence for the Empress Maria Theresa, and was made member of the Florence and, after his return, of the Vienna Academy (1776), and court-painter. More than three thousand of his works are known. Works: Portrait of Joseph II., City Hall, Vienna; Empress Maria Theresa, King Ferdinand of Naples and Queen; Duke Albert of Teschen and Archduchess Christine; Emperor Leopold II.; Emperor Francis; Pope Pius VI.; Prince Kaunitz; General Baron Lascy; Prince Kinsky; Elector Charles Theodore, Painter Winck, Augsburg Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 385; Wurzbach, ix. 3.

HICKS, GEORGE EDGAR, born at Lymington, England, in 1824. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Bloomsbury School of Art in 1843, and of Royal Academy in 1844. Works: Lark at Heaven's Gate (1855); Dividend Day at the Bank (1859); Post-Office (1860); Before the Magistrates (1866); Reflected Smiles (1867); Utilizing Church Metal (1869); Black Monday (1871); Ruth the Moabitess (1874); Return from Gleaning (1876); Fisherman's Wife, Woodman's Daughter (1877); Forget Me Not (1878); Cinderella (1883); Portraits (1884).

HICKS, THOMAS, born at Newtown, Penn., Oct. 18, 1823. Portrait painter, studied in Philadelphia and at the National Academy, later a pupil of Couture in Paris.