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 of a Boat, Wrecking of a Vessel (1884).—Sheldon, 25.

HOMME AU GANT (Man with a Glove), Titian, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 2 ft. 11 in.; signed. A young man, dressed in black, holding a glove in left hand. A noble portrait of Titian's middle period. Copy in Brunswick Gallery. Belonged to Louis XIV.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 421.

HONDECOETER, GILLIS D', born at Antwerp, died at Amsterdam (?) after 1637. Flemish school; landscape and bird painter, pupil at Utrecht of Roelant Savery, and at Amsterdam of David Vinckeboons; a descendant of the Brabantine Marquises of Westerloo. At first painted portraits; removed to Amsterdam, where he lived already in 1615, and contracted a second marriage in 1628. Works: Mountainous Landscape, Berlin Museum; do. (1609), Schleissheim Gallery; Bird Concert, Cassel Gallery; do. (1620), Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; Dead Birds (1655? attributed), Rotterdam Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 67; Kramm, iii. 717; Meyer, Gem. köngl. Mus., 209.

HONDECOETER, MELCHIOR D', born in Utrecht in 1636, died in Amsterdam, April 3, 1695. Dutch school; animal painter, son and pupil of Gysbert H., and of his uncle, Jan Baptista Weenix. Painted birds with singular truthfulness, and had a poetic feeling for their varied habits. In 1659-63 member of Hague guild; in 1688 took the freedom of Amsterdam. Works: Birds in a Park, White Turkey, Peacock and Turkey, Louvre; Crow stripped of Borrowed Feathers (1671), Menagerie of Prince William III. at Loo, two others, Hague Museum; Floating Feather, Hen defending Chickens, Parrots and Other Birds, Dead Birds, Birds and Hare, four others, Amsterdam Museum; Peacock and Poultry in a Park (1672), Cock Crowing, Still Life, Brussels Museum; Foreign Water-Fowl, Berlin Museum; Noah's Ark, Vessel with Fish (1661), Brunswick Museum; Poultry Yard (1668), Cock-Fight, do. (1686), Carlsruhe Gallery; White Peacock and other Fancy Birds, Cock-Fights (2), Cassel Gallery; Chickens, do. and Cock defying Bird of Prey, Bird Concert, Dead Game-Birds by a Gun, Dresden Museum; Domestic Poultry, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; do., Cologne, Gotha (3), Hanover, Leipsic, Stuttgart (3), Vienna (2) Museums, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Venice Academy, Copenhagen and Oldenburg Galleries, National Gallery, London (2), Liverpool Institution, Leuchtenberg Gallery, St. Petersburg; Cock-Fight, Cock and Hen defending Chickens against Turkey, Barn Yard, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Water-Fowls (2), Dead Game and Hunting Implements (2), Bird Park, Schleissheim Gallery; Cock-Fight (1668), Hen Family, Turkish Ducks, Dead Poultry (1678), Poultry Yard (1681), Schwerin Gallery; Poultry Yard, Pelican, Cassowary, etc., Dead Game, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 67; Burger, i. 161, 280; Immerzeel, ii. 47; Kramm, iii. 717; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 457; De Stuers, 50.

HONDIUS, ABRAHAM, born in Rotterdam in 1638, died in London in 1695. Dutch school; animal and genre painter; went early to London, where he painted bear and boar hunts, conflagrations, and nocturnal gatherings by torchlight. The truthfulness, boldness, and vigour of this master would give him a high place were