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 first under Klieber, then under Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld; travelled (1846) in Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium, and went in 1856 for three years to Munich. His landscapes show deep feeling for nature and poetical sentiment, delicate treatment and good drawing, but somewhat dull and hard colouring. Member of the Vienna and Venice Academies. Works: Quiet Wood-Nook, Emperor of Austria; Stag-Hunt; In the Wiener Wald; View in the Ramsau; In the Beech-Grove; View in Carpathian Mountains (2) (1854); Wood Landscape (1859); Landscape with Oaks, Vienna Museum.—Kunst-Chronik, xi. 833; Wurzbach, ix. 250.

HOLZHAB, ADOLF, born in Zürich in 1835. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Gude and Pulian; travelled through the Rhine countries, Southern Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, and Italy. Works: View near Tangermünde, Säg Alp on Reichenbach, Mediæval Town on North Sea, Zürich Gallery; Costumes in Switzerland; Ruin of Convent in Black Forest; Town of Leuk and the Gemmi; The Wetterhorn.—Müller, 265.

HOMER, APOTHEOSIS OF, Dominique Ingres, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 12 ft. 8 in. × 16 ft. 10 in.; signed, dated 1827. Homer, seated, with figures representing the Iliad and the Odyssey at his feet, is crowned by Fame, and receives the homage of all the great men of Greece, of Rome, and of modern times. Painted for a ceiling of the Musée Charles X., Louvre, but replaced now by a copy. Paris Exposition, 1855; afterwards in Luxembourg. Engraved by A. Martinet. Original sketch also in Louvre.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Ch. Blanc, Life, 91; Larousse, i. 497.

HOMER AND THE GREEKS, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, New Museum, Berlin; mural painting, staircase hall. Homer, in a boat steered by the Cumæan Sibyl, approaches the shores of Greece while Thetis and the Nereids rise from the sea to listen to his song; on the shore are gathered the great men of Greece—Orpheus in the centre, then Hesiod, Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Pindar; Phidias, and other sculptors and painters; the prophet Bacis, and Solon, Pericles, and Alcibiades, while from forest and field the people approach to partake of the new culture.

HOMER AND HIS GUIDE, Adolphe Bouguereau, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; canvas. The blind bard, led by a boyish guide, is attacked by dogs set on by rude Ionian shepherds; in the background, the curs rush on in full cry, but one, in the foreground, which has reached the poet, has come under his influence, and fawns upon him in submission. Salon, 1874.—Art Treas. of Amer., i. 44.

HOMER, WINSLOW, born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 24, 1836. Genre painter, pupil of the National Academy and of F. Rondel. During the civil war sketched for Harper's and other periodicals, and also painted works in oil and water-colours. Elected an A.N.A. in 1864, and N.A. in 1865. Member of Society of Painters in Water Colours. Has visited Europe, and in 1884-5 made a sketching tour in the West Indies. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Prisoners from the Front; Cotton Pickers; Home, Sweet Home; Zouaves Pitching Quoits; Bright Side; As You Like It; Milking-Time; In the Field; Snap the Whip (1876); Rab and the Girls, Breezing Up, Charles Stewart Smith, New York; Sundown, Upland Cotton (1879); Visit from the Old Mistress, Sunday Morning (1880); Coming Away of the Gale (1883); Uncle Ned's Happy Family, Life-Line (1884). Water-colours: Fly-Fishing; Gardener's Daughter; After the Bath; In the Garden; Manchester Coast; Launching