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 Burgundian Library, Brussels; Roman Missal (1582-90), Imperial Library, Vienna. His son Jacobus, born at Frankfort in 1575, became court-painter to the Emperor Rudolph in 1607. In the museum at Valencia there is a fine water-colour drawing by him: Samson slaying the Philistines (1600).—Fétis, Les artistes belges à l'étranger, i. 85; Michiels, vi. 239; Nagler, Mon., iii. 564.

HOEGG, JOSEF, born in Coblentz in 1826. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy, paints chiefly mournful subjects. Works: Farewell of Emigrant Wine-Growers (1846); At Mother's Coffin (1847); Boy reading Letter (1848); Blind Grandmother, Return from Cemetery (1849); Grandfather and Grandchildren (1850); Blind Man (1852).—Wiegmann, 327.

HOERBERG, PEHR, born at Oefra-Oe, Småland, Jan. 31, 1746, died at Oelstorp, East Gothland, Jan. 24, 1816. History painter, self-taught peasant. While serving as a shepherd (1783) he frequented the Stockholm Academy, and obtained two prizes. Made member of the Academy and court-painter in 1797, and received a pension from Charles XIV. in 1812. Over six hundred paintings by him are known, among which are eighty-seven altarpieces. His best fresco paintings are the Combats of Titans at Castle Finspång. He was an accomplished musician, and invented a new kind of violin; his musical compositions are original and full of sentiment.—Pehr Hoerberg's Lebens beschreibung (Greifswald, 1819).

HOERTER, AUGUST, born in Germany; contemporary. Landscape painter in Carlsruhe, pupil of Lessing; draws his subjects mostly from the high mountains of Germany and Switzerland. Works: Courtyard of Magdeburg; View of Reichenbach Falls; Landscape about the Hohentviel; Oak Landscape; Wood Brook; Approaching Storm with Mediæval Horsemen; Rosegg Glacier; Landscape in the Höhgau (1868).—Müller, 267.

HOET (Hoedt), GERARD, born at Bommel, Aug. 22, 1648, died at The Hague, Dec. 2, 1733. Dutch school; history painter, son and pupil of the glass painter Moses Hoet, then pupil of Warnard van Rysen and of Poelenburg; went to The Hague in 1672, travelled in Holland and France, and settled in Utrecht, where, with H. Schook, he founded a school of painting; returned to The Hague when sixty, and there painted in a hall the Seven Christian Virtues. Works: Landscapes with Figures (2), Marriage of Alexander and Roxana, Homage to Alexander, Family Scene, Amsterdam Museum; Pyramus and Thisbe, Rotterdam Museum; Queen of Sheba before Solomon, Pyramus and Thisbe, Cassel Gallery; Death of Dido, Alcestis at Death-bed of Admetus, Copenhagen Gallery; Woman and Children by Ruined Wall (1667), Dresden Museum; Samson and Delilah, Solomon's Idolatry, Leipsic Museum; Æneas and Dido, Antony and Cleopatra, Ulysses recognizing Achilles, The Wooers Feasting, Male Portrait, Schleissheim Gallery; Moses striking the Rock, Vienna Museum; Callisto's Guilt, Glasgow Gallery; Adoration of the Magi, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel, ii. 44; Kramm, iii. 705.

HOFF, JAKOB, born in Frankfort in 1838. Genre painter, pupil at Frankfort of the sculptor Zwerger, then at the Städel Institute of Jakob Becker, spent two years in Belgium and Holland, and subsequently visited Hungary and North Italy. Works: Kirmess Dance (1861); Under the Linden; Repose at the Chase.—Müller, 261.

HOFF, KARL, born in Mannheim, Sept. 8, 1838. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Carlsruhe Art School under Schirmer and Des Coudres, and of Düsseldorf Academy under Vautier; visited Paris in 1862, settled in Düsseldorf, whence he made journeys through Germany, France, Italy, and Greece, and in 1878 went to Carlsruhe as professor at the art-school. Medals in Berlin (1872), Vienna (1873); honorary mem