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 Committed for Trial (1878); Gifts of Fairies, Daughter of the House, Absconded (1879); Home Again (1881); Did you ever kill Anybody, Father? (1884); and many portraits.—Meynell, 167; Art Journal (1876), 9; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 498.

HOLLAND, JAMES, born at Burslem, England, in 1800, died in London in 1870. Landscape and flower painter; went to London in 1819, and devoted himself to flower painting, but after a visit to Paris in 1831 took up landscape painting. He made many sketching tours on the Continent, and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Painters in Water Colours, and the Society of British Artists, of the last two of which he was a member. Works: Nymwegen, Near Blackheath, and several in water colours, South Kensington Museum; Port of Genoa, Liverpool Gallery; Interior of Milan Cathedral, Tomb of the Scaligers at Verona, St. Mary's Chapel at Warwick, Views in Venice (6), Gresham College; Greenwich Hospital, Bridgewater Gallery.

HOLLAND, Sir NATHANIEL DANCE, Bart, born in London in 1734, died at Carnborough House, near Winchester, Oct. 15, 1811. Real name Nathaniel Dance, son of George Dance, architect; took name of Holland on his marriage with a wealthy widow in 1790, was an M. P. for many years, and created a baronet in 1800. Pupil in art of Frank Hayman; spent eight or nine years in Italy, and on his return won success as a painter of portraits and of historical subjects. In 1768 he was one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy. Works: Portraits of Earl Camden, Lord Clive, Arthur Murphy, Lord North, National Portrait Gallery, London.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 311.

HOLLINS, JOHN, born in Birmingham, June 1, 1798, died in London, March 7, 1855. Subject and portrait painter; went in 1822 to London, where, with the exception of two years spent in Italy (1825-27), he was a constant exhibitor. Elected an A.R.A. in 1842. Work: Lord Tenterden, National Portrait Gallery, London.—Cat. Nat. Port. Gal.

HOLM, PER DANIEL, born at Malingsbo, Dalecarlia, Sept. 11, 1835. Landscape painter, pupil of Nils Anderson and of Stockholm Academy, where in 1862 he received a medal; visited the north of Scandinavia in 1864, and later, Düsseldorf, Munich, Carlsruhe, where he studied under Gude, and Paris. Works: View of Qvick-*jock in Lapland; Saggatsen in Lapland; From the Mountains of Westmanland (1869), Stockholm Museum.—Müller, 264.

HOLMBERG, AUGUST, born in Munich, Aug. 1, 1851. Genre painter, pupil of the Munich Academy under Wilhelm Diez, visited subsequently Berlin, Dresden, and Vienna, in 1875 Italy, and in 1878 Paris. His genre pieces are well composed and coloured. Works: Huntsman's Still Life; Windmill in a Storm; Difference of Opinion (1873); Choir in a Church at Florence, Tobacco College of Frederick William I. (1879); The Recovered Monogram (1880).—Müller, 264; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xviii. 403.

HOLSTEYN, CORNELIS, born at Haarlem about 1620. Dutch school; history painter, son and pupil of Pieter (glass painter and engraver, born in Schleswig about 1580, died in Haarlem in 1662); flourished in Amsterdam about 1651, and was dean of the guild at Delft in 1661-62. Works: Triumph of Bacchus; Lycurgus making his Nephew his Heir, Orphan Asylum, Amsterdam; Pyramus and Thisbe, Parable of the Vineyard (1647), Haarlem Museum; Bath-room, Cassel Gallery; Angel commanding St. Philip to baptize Queen Candace's Chamberlain, Schleissheim Gallery.—Immerzeel, ii. 46; Kramm, iii. 714; Van der Willigen, 179.

HOLY CONVERSATION. See Santa Conversazione.

HOLY FAMILY, Mariotto Albertinelli, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, round, 2 ft. 9 in. diameter. The Virgin kneeling in adoration; Jesus lying on ground, receiving a cross from a kneeling angel; in back