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 her two grandchildren in the background. Salon, 1785. Sketch, with changes, in Louvre. Engraved by Morel.—Landon, Musée, vii. Pl. 61.

Oath of the Horatii, Louis David, Louvre, Paris.

HORCICKA, FRANZ, born in Prague, June 29, 1776, died there, April 5, 1856. History and portrait painter, pupil from 1786 of Ludwig Kohl, and from 1800 of Bergler in the Academy. At Prague he was the first portrait painter of the day until Jacob Ginzel supplanted him in 1822. Invented a valuable way of restoring pictures, and in 1811 started the first public art exhibition in Prague. Works: St. Wenceslaus destroying the Idol Swantovit; St. Albert blessing the Country, St. George and the Dragon; Holy Trinity; Portraits of Ignatius Cornova, of the Mathematician Gerstner, of Abbé Dobrowsky, of the Philosopher Bolzano, the Historian Pelzel, the Physiologist Purkyne.—Allgem. deutsche Biogr., xiii. 125.

HOREBOUT (Hoorenbout, Horebault, Hornebold), GERARD, born in Ghent(?) about 1480, died in London in 1540. Flemish school; history painter, supposed pupil of Memling, and one of the great masters of the old Flemish school, excelling especially as a painter of miniatures, of which the famous breviary of Charles V. may be taken as an example. He was in Ghent in 1510-11, worked for the Princess Margaret of Austria in 1516-21, and Albrecht Dürer knew him in the latter year at Antwerp. Having afterwards gone to England, he was appointed painter to Henry VIII. Works: Double Diptych (attributed to Memling), Antwerp Museum; Madonna Enthroned(?), Darmstadt Museum; Madonna, Christ taking Leave of his Mother, Prayer Book with Miniatures, National Museum, Munich; Hortulus Animæ, and several Codices, Imperial Library, Vienna; Psalter and Officium in three Folio Volumes, Vatican, Rome.—Immerzeel, ii. 55; Kramm, iii. 747; Michiels, vi., 406; Nagler, Mon., ii. 37.

HOREMANS, JAN JOZEF, the elder, born at Antwerp, baptized Nov. 16, 1682, died there, Aug. 7, 1759. Flemish school; genre painter, first instructed by the sculptor Michiel van der Voort, then pupil of Jan van Pee; master of the guild in 1706. His pictures were skilfully composed, but heavy and untruthful in colouring. Works: Admission of an Abbot into Fencing Company, Antwerp Museum; Musical Company (1715), Brunswick Museum; Company around Table, Lady making Dog Dance, Dutch Peasant Room, Company of Peasants, Interior of Gardener's Dwelling, Cassel Gallery; Peasants' Frolic in a Tavern, Brawl in a Tavern, Darmstadt Museum; Tavern Scenes (2), Copy after Hogarth's Harlot's; Progress, Historical Society, New York; Shoemaker in his Shop, Mother by a Cradle Sewing, Dresden Museum; Peasant Family at Table (2), Hanover Gallery; Village School, Shoemaker's Shop (1712), Vienna