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 Museum; Resurrection, Schleissheim Gallery; Madonna and Angels, Allegory on Transitoriness, January and February, July and August, September and October, Day and Night, Archduke Leopold William in Prayer, do. on Horseback, Museum, Vienna; Samson and Delilah, Massacre of the Innocents, Cimon and Pera, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 549; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 429; Immerzeel, ii. 42; Kramm, iii. 699; Michiels, viii. 97; Rooses (Reber), 317; Van den Branden, 794.

HOECKE, ROBRECHT VAN DEN, born in Antwerp, Nov. 30, 1622, died after 1695. Flemish school; genre, landscape, and battle painter, son and pupil of Kasper, and half-brother of Jan; master of the guild in 1645. His style was evidently influenced by Teniers the younger, and his pictures are admired for great delicacy of tone, splendid colouring, and richness of composition. While controller of the fortifications of Flanders he painted many military camps and scenes, executing the figures on a small scale and with great minuteness. Works: Skating in Town-moat at Brussels (1649), View of Ostend, Military Camps (3), March of Troops, Halt of Travellers by an Inn, Flemish Store-room (1695), Nocturnal Conflagration, Vienna Museum; Military Camp (1665), Dunkirk Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 549; Immerzeel, ii. 43; Kramm, iii. 700; Van den Branden, 797.

HOECKERT, JOHANN FREDRIK, born at Jönköping, Aug. 26, 1826, died in Göteburg, Sept. 16, 1866. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Stockholm Academy under Boklund, with whom he went to Munich in 1846. After his return (1849) he visited Lapland, went in 1853 to Paris, where he allied himself with Max Hess, travelled in 1857 through Holland, Belgium, and England, in 1858; made studies in Dalecarlia, and in 1861 visited Spain, Italy, and North Africa. Medals in 1857, 1866; Orders of Wasa and North Star. Works: Bandits (1846); Queen Christina ordering Execution of Monaldeschi (1853); Divine Service in Lapland Chapel (1855); Return from Chase in Lapland; Interior of Lapland Hut (1857), Lapland Wedding (1858), Stockholm Museum; Rescue of Gustavus Vasa (1858); Peasant Woman at the Hearth (1862); Portraits of Bey of Tunis (1861), and Charles XV.; Burning of Palace in Stockholm in 1697; Bellman in Sergell's Studio; Dead Body of Charles XI.—Taflor.

HOEFEL, JOHANN NEPOMUK, born in Pesth in 1786, died in Vienna in Feb., 1864. History and portrait painter, pupil of Krafft and of Vienna Academy, where he won the great prize in 1811; visited Italy in 1818, and after his return painted many altarpieces for churches in Austria and Hungary. Works: Ægeus recognizing Theseus by his Sword (1811); Sons of Diagoras as Victors at Olympia (1820); Series of Twenty-Four Figures for Imperial Palace; Portrait of Ladislaus Pyrker.—Wurzbach, ix. 97; Hormayr, Archiv., 623.

HOEFNAGEL, JORIS, born at Antwerp in 1545, died in Vienna after 1618. Flemish school; genre, landscape, portrait, and miniature painter, mostly self-taught, but for a time pupil at Mechlin of Jan Bol, after having travelled through France and Spain in 1563-65, where he made many drawings of notable objects. Returned to Antwerp, and uniting with his art the business of a jewel dealer, he and his father were pillaged of everything on the invasion by the Spaniards in 1576, and went to Augsburg, thence to Munich, where, after a visit to Italy, he spent eight years, patronized by the elector; visited England about 1582; worked temporarily for the Archduke Ferdinand at Innsbruck, then entered the service of Emperor Rudolph at Prague, for whom he illustrated four books on natural history, and finally settled at Vienna. Works: Miniature View of Seville (1573, masterpiece).