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 In 1845 visited Europe, where he remained four years. First picture exhibited in 1841. Elected N.A. in 1851. Studios in New York and Trenton Falls, N. J. Works: Edwin Booth as Iago; Henry Ward Beecher; Longfellow; Halleck; Dr. Kane; William M. Evarts; Dr. Cogswell; Bayard Taylor; Hamilton Fish; Luther Bradish (1857), Elisha Kent Kane (1859), Henry Abbott (1863), Historical Society, New York; Parke Godwin (1879), Mrs. F. N. Goddard, New York; Portrait, Indian Summer (1881); Mrs. B. F. Romaine (1882); Mrs. S. F. Billings (1883); Dr. James R. Wood (1884), New York Academy of Medicine; Birches at Thornwood—Trenton Falls (1879); In Brittany (1884); End of a Winter Day (1885), Dr. Robert Band, New York.—Tuckerman, 465; Benjamin, 49, 86.

HIDDEMANN, FRIEDRICH PETER, born at Düsseldorf, Oct. 4, 1829. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Theodor Hildebrandt and Wilhelm Schadow; travelled in Germany, France, Belgium, and Holland, painted at first historical and romantic subjects, then humourous genre scenes. Medals in Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876). Works: Wedding and Baptism; The Monster; Concert; Surprise; Severe Lecture; Pocket-Revision; Philosophy of the Ball (1858), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; From Bygone Days (1861); School-Arrest; Beginning of Kirmess (1862); Amateur Quartette (1863), Königsberg Museum; Bottle of Champagne; Reunion (1866); Recruiting in Time of Frederic the Great (1870), National Gallery, Berlin; Return from Afar (1871); Unbidden Neighbours (1872), Wiesbaden Museum; Picnic in the Woods, In Compartment of First Class (1874); Winter Pleasure (1875); Funeral in Westphalia, Carlsruhe Gallery; Love Letter (1875), Düsseldorf Gallery; Desire for Revenge (1876); Physician's Anteroom (1877).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), i. 32; ii. 307; (1878), ii. 347; Müller, 258; Neue freie Presse, Aug. 18, 1871.

HIEN, DANIEL, born at Strassburg in 1725, died at Zweibrücken, Bavaria, in 1773. Landscape, animal, and still-life painter, pupil of Konrad Mannlich, then in Milan (1749) of Crivelli, and in Paris of Oudry; painted especially hunting pieces with great skill. Works: Landscape with Herd and Figures, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Animal pieces (2) (1765), Schleissheim Gallery; others in Augsburg Gallery.

HIGHLANDERS HOME, Sir David Wilkie, Earl of Essex; canvas. Interior, with the father of the family sitting at right, and the mother standing, holding her baby for him to kiss; at their feet, two dogs; in background, a girl going out of the door. Painted in 1825. Engraved by W. Finden.—Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.; Painters of Georgian Era.

HIGHMORE, JOSEPH, born in London in 1692, died at Canterbury in 1780. History and portrait painter, pupil of the Academy under Sir Godfrey Kneller; painted portraits of several Knights of the Bath on the revival of that order in 1725, particularly a fine picture of the Duke of Richmond and his esquires, and afterwards, by order of George I., a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland; visited the Continent in 1732, chiefly to see the Düsseldorf Gallery, and at Antwerp to study the works of Rubens. Works: Hagar and Ishmael; Good Samaritan; Finding of Moses; The Graces unveiling Nature; Portraits of Samuel Richardson and Dr. Stebbing, National Gallery, London.—Bryan (Graves), 654.

HILANDERAS, LAS (The Tapestry Weavers), Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 7 ft. 3 in. × 9 ft. 6 in. Scene in royal tapestry manufactory of S. Isabel, Madrid. An old woman, at spinning-wheel, turns to speak to a girl behind her, who is drawing back a red curtain; girl in centre, carding wool, looks at a cat asleep by her side; another, on right, winds yarn from a reel; behind her, one entering room with a basket; in background, three ladies examining tapestry. A masterpiece; painted about 1656; formerly in palace of Buen Retiro. Copy by Collier in École des Beaux Arts, Paris. Etched