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 pupil, Eduard Alexander (born at Amsterdam, May 12, 1846), paints landscapes and city views.—Immerzeel, ii. 40; Müller, 259.

HINCKLEY, THOMAS HEWES, born in Milton, Mass., in 1813. Animal painter, pupil during one winter of an evening school in Philadelphia, where he was taught perspective by Mason. Painted portraits and landscapes in Boston until 1843, when he turned his attention to animal painting. Visited Europe in 1851 to study Landseer in England, and the Flemish painters. His pictures are in many private collections in the United States; he rarely exhibits.

HIPPOCENTAUR, picture. See Zeuxis.

HIPPYS (Hippeus), painter, date unknown. Pliny (xxxv. 40 [138]) mentions his picture of Neptune and Victory, and Athenæus (xi. p. 474 D.) that of the Wedding of Peirithoüs.

HIRE (Hyre), LAURENT DE LA, born in Paris, Feb. 27, 1606, died there, Dec. 29, 1656. French school; history painter, son and pupil of Etienne de la H., then of Lallemand at Fontainebleau, where he studied also the works of that school. Painted many finely-executed pictures, some of which have been copied in tapestry or engraved. One of the twelve founders of the French Academy of Painting (1648), and professor in 1648-51. Works: Laban looking for his Idols (1647), Madonna (1642), Jesus appearing to Three Marys, St. Peter healing the Sick with his Shadow (1635), A Sketch of the preceding, Pope Nicholas V. opening Tomb of St. Francis of Assisi (1630), Landscapes (3), Louvre, Paris; Assumption (in Vienna); Descent from Cross, Nativity, Adoration of Shepherds, Education of the Virgin, Portrait of a Nun, Rouen Museum; Mercury and Herse, Épinal Museum; The Trinity, Lyons Museum; Repose of Holy Family (2), Palm Sunday, Nantes Museum; Disciples at Emmaus, Portico with Figures, Rennes Museum; Christ appearing to Magdalen, The Breaking of Bread, Grenoble Museum; Judgment of Paris, Dijon Museum; Vision of St. Francis, Strasburg Museum; Ruins of a Temple, Valenciennes Museum; Finding of Moses, Landscape, Montpellier Museum; Rebecca and Laban, Lord Forester's Collection; Repose in Egypt, Galton Collection; Conversion of St. Paul (1637); Theseus seizing the Arms of his Father Ægeus, Perseus rescuing Andromeda, Palais Royal; Madonna, Carlsruhe Gallery; Infancy of Bacchus, Abraham starting for the Promised Land, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Bellier, i. 881; Ch. Blanc, École française; Lejeune, Guide, i. 161; Larousse; Mémoires inédits, i. 104.

HIRSCHELY, KASPAR, born in Prague about 1701, died there in 1745. German school; landscape, animal, and still-life painter, pupil of Angermayer; endowed with an unusual talent for imitation, he often finished and sold pictures, painted after his master's sketches. Works: Flower-pieces (2) (1741), Thistles with Birds (2), Schleissheim Gallery; others in private collections in Prague.—Wurzbach, ix. 53.

HIRT, WILHELM FRIEDRICH, born in Frankfort in 1721, died there in 1772. German school; landscape and animal painter, son and pupil of Friedrich Christoph Hirt (1685-1763, landscape and portrait painter), whom he surpassed in colouring; in 1757 became court-painter to the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, after whose death he sketched extensively from nature on a tour through Switzerland; painted cattle especially well, and often supplied them in the pictures of Christian Georg Schütz. Works: Wood Landscapes (2) (1750), Landscapes with Herds and Figures (2) (1768), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Landscape with Fishermen (1754), Gotha Museum; Landscape with Herd, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do. (2), Cassel Gallery; do., Mannheim Gallery.