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 Honorary member of St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Petruchio (1866); Before the Tournament (1868); The Armourer and the Glee Maiden (1872); Munchausen (1873); Wanderings of Charles Edward Stuart (1874); Manager's Troubles (1875); Incident in Early Life of Louis XIV. (1877); Summons from the Invisible Judges (1879); Ich Dien (1881);	Last Days of Sir Philip Sidney (1882);	The Duke's Musicians (1883); In Presence (1884).

HILLS, ROBERT, born at Islington, June 26, 1769, died in London, May 14, 1844. Animal and landscape painter, pupil of Gresse; first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1791, and was one of the founders of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1804, subsequently its secretary; sometimes worked conjointly with Robson and Barret. Works: Deer in a Landscape, Broken Plough (1804), Landscape with Cattle (1807), Ox Team (1810), Wild Boars in a Wood (1826), Stags in Knole Park (1827), Cows and Sheep, South Kensington Museum.—Redgrave, 211.

HILTENSPERGER, JOHANN GEORG, born at Haldenwang, Bavaria, Feb. 22, 1806. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Peter von Langer, then of Düsseldorf Academy under Cornelius, with whom, in 1825, he returned to Munich. King Louis soon after sent him to Naples and Pompeii, to study antique painting, and after his return he executed a large number of decorative works in the Königsbau. In 1846-50 he painted a cycle of pictures in the St. Petersburg Museum, became professor at the Munich Academy in 1851, and afterwards received extensive orders for the decoration of the Maximilianeum. Works: Duke Albrecht refusing Crown of Bohemia, Arcade of Royal Garden, Munich; twenty-seven Scenes from Comedies of Aristophanes, Scenes from Hesiod's Poems, Illustrations to Homer's Hymns, Cycle from Ulysses, Königsbau, Munich; Pegasus and the Hours, Apollo and the Muses, Royal Theatre, Munich; eighty-six Scenes from History of Greek Painting (1846-50), St. Petersburg Museum; Herodotus at the Olympian Games, Emperor Augustus as Protector of Arts, Maximilianeum, Munich.—Nagler, Mon., ii. 1057; Reber-Pecht, ii. 57.

HILTON, WILLIAM, born at Lincoln, June 3, 1786, died in London, Dec. 30, 1839. Son and pupil of William Hilton, portrait painter (died 1822); also studied with Raphael Smith, mezzotint engraver, and in 1806 in school of Royal Academy. Became an exhibitor in 1803, A.R.A. in 1813, R.A. in 1819, and keeper in 1827. He won distinction as a subject painter, his works being marked by refined taste in design, and by rich and harmonious colouring, though they have much depreciated, owing to the excessive use of asphaltum. Though his skill was recognized by the profession, his art was not popular, and want of encouragement weighed heavily upon him. Works: Serena rescued by Sir Calepine (Faerie Queen, vi. 8; 1831), Edith discovering the Dead Body of Harold (1834), Cupid Disarmed (1828), Meeting of Abraham's Servant with Rebecca (1833), National Gallery, London; Rape of Ganymede (1818), Christ crowned with Thorns (1825), Royal Academy, ib.; Venus seeking Cupid at the Bath of Diana, Sir Richard Wallace; Rape of Europa (1818), Earl of Egremont; Crucifixion (1827), Liverpool Institution; Triumphal Entry of Duke of Wellington into Madrid; Portrait of Keats, National Portrait Gallery, London.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 436; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, i. 362.

HILVERDINK, JOHANNES, born at Gröningen, Jan. 28, 1813. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Daiwaille, and of Amsterdam Academy under Pieneman, visited Belgium, Germany, and the coasts of the Mediterranean, won several medals with his marines, and became member of Amsterdam Academy in 1852. Works: Coast of England, Pavilion, Haarlem; Calm Sea, Museum Fedor, Amsterdam; After the Storm; The Y near Zeeburg. His son and