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 *ube; Evening Landscape in Hartz Mountains; Dornburg Citadel; Drifting of Ice in the Rhine; Winter Landscape (1847), do. (1848), do. (1850), Storm in the Mountains (1849), Fisherman's Hut (1850), Huntsmen with Dogs, Fisherman on Shore, Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Convent Yard in Winter by Moonlight (1867), Schwerin Gallery.—Müller, 258; W. Müller, Düsseldorf K., 349.

HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS, born in Perth, Scotland, in 1802, died in Edinburgh, May 17, 1870. Landscape painter, pupil of Andrew Wilson; was in 1830 one of the foundation members of the Royal Scottish Academy, of which he was secretary until October, 1869. At first painted pictures illustrative of Scottish peasant life, and in 1843 he finished a large work containing 470 portraits—The Establishment of the Free Kirk, which now hangs in the Presbytery Hall of the Free Church, Edinburgh, but later devoted himself to landscape. Works: Edinburgh from Mons Meg (1852); Ruins of Dunfermline Palace (1854); Windsor Castle; Castle of Dunure on Ayrshire Coast (1861); River Tay at Evening (1862); Vale of the Forth (1868); Leith Pier, National Gallery, Edinburgh.—Redgrave; Art Journal (1869).

HILL, THOMAS, born at Birmingham, England, in 1829. Landscape painter, went to America in 1841; pupil in Paris of Paul Meyerheim, but mostly self-taught. Professional life has been passed in Philadelphia, Boston, and San Francisco. Works: Home of the Eagle, J. A. Faull; Donner Lake (1876), Leland Stanford; White Mountain Notch, E. Hamlin, Boston; Great Cañon of the Sierras, Yosemite Valley, Charles Crocker, San Francisco; Early Morning—Yosemite, I. M. Scott, ib.; What is It? (1884); Who are You? (1885).

HILLE BOBBE, Frans Hals, Berlin Museum; canvas, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 2 ft. 1 in. The witch of Haarlem, half-length, in a white cap, sitting by a table, looking at an owl perched on her left shoulder; in her right hand an open beer-mug. Painted about 1650; from Suermondt Collection in 1874. Etched by Leo. Flameng. Same subject (30 in. × 24½ in.), Metropolitan Museum, New York, from Collection of Lord Palmerston; (probably by Frans, the younger) engraved by Jules Jacquemart. Another, engraved by L. B. Coclers, has two hands crossed holding a string attached to the owl. Still another, in Van Reede Collection, Utrecht, formerly in Cremer Collection, ib., is a free repetition by F. Hals, the younger. A Laughing Woman by Hals, (about 1645) in Lille Museum, is erroneously called Hille Bobbe.—Zeitschr., v. 78; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 162; (1872), vi. 476; Bode, Studien, 103.

Hille Bobbe, Frans Hals, Berlin Museum.

HILLEGAERT (Hilligaard), PAUWELS VAN, died in Amsterdam in Feb., 1658. Dutch school; battle painter, shows in the landscape part of his pictures the influence