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 *ney Sweep; Last Moments of Calvin (1835), Catherine de' Medici receiving Coligny's Head, Prisoner, Study for Head of Coligny, Musée Rath, Geneva; Savoyard (1843), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Last Visit of Farel to Calvin; Calvin working on Fortifications of Geneva; Servetus led to Execution; Fromment's Sermon on the Molard; Beza reading Bible before Joanna d'Albret; Morning after St. Bartholomew's Night; Luther at Worms.—Illust. Zeitg., March 18, 1865.

HORNY, FRANZ, born in Weimar in 1797, died in Olevano in 1819. Pupil of Johann Heinrich Meyer in Weimar, and Joseph Anton Koch at Rome in 1816. Commissioned to paint fruit and flower decorations in fresco about the Dante frescos of Cornelius at the Villa Massimi. He was an artist of great promise, whose career was cut short by an early death.—Riegel, 337; Seubert, ii. 254.

HOROSCOPE, Giorgione (?), Dresden Gallery; wood, H. 4 ft. 5 in. × 3 ft. An old man in Oriental costume, with a disc and compass in his hand, sits at a marble table in front of a ruined building; to the left, a woman lying on the ground, playing with a naked child, while a man in armour stands by; background, a landscape, with warriors reposing under a tree. Looks as if it might have been painted by Girolamo Pennacchi. Formerly in Palazzo Manfrini, Venice.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 153.

HOROWITZ, LEOPOLD, born at Rozgony, Hungary, in 1839. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Meyer, Wurzinger, and Geiger; won first prize and went in 1860 to Paris, where he remained eight years, acquiring considerable reputation; moved in 1868 to Warsaw to study Polish and Jewish life, which he has since treated in a number of successful pictures. Works: Mourning of the Jews over Jerusalem; Polish Tutor; Harmless War; The First-Born (1885).—Allgem. K. C., ix. 664; Müller, 266.

HORSCHELT, THEODOR, born in Munich, March 16, 1829, died there, April 3, 1871. Battle painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Anschütz, and of Albrecht Adam; painted first hunting scenes and horses, visited Spain and Algiers in 1853, and in 1858 went to the Caucasus and took part in the Russian expedition. In 1863 returned to Munich via Moscow and St. Petersburg, and painted many military scenes in oils and water-colours. In 1870 he made sketches during the siege of Strasburg. Member of St. Petersburg Academy in 1860, of the Vienna Academy in 1868, honorary member of the Munich Academy in 1865; first prize in Paris in 1867, gold medal in Munich in 1869; military decorations in 1858-59, for his campaigns in the Caucasus. Works: Poacher (1850); Halt before Algiers (1854); Caravan in the Desert; Seizure of Shamyl; Taking of Earthwork on Mount Gunib; Cossacks returning from a Razzia; Russian Artillery in the Tschetschina; Flight of Lesghian Horsemen; Street in Tiflis; Attack of Circassians.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 160; Allgem. Zeitg., April 18, 1871; Beilage, 108; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 115; Münchner Propyläen (1869), 798; Regnet, M. K., i. 195; Theod. Horschelt, Life and Works (Munich, 1876).

HORSE FAIR (Marché aux Chevaux), A. T. Stewart Collection, New York; canvas, H. 8 ft. × 15 ft. 7-1/2 in. A drove of horses, of various colours and sizes, some with riders, and some led by men, trotting to right; in background, left, the dome of the Invalides in distance; at right, an avenue of trees with spectators. A masterpiece; cost eighteen months' labor. Salon, 1853; sold to Gambart & Co., London, for 40,000 francs, and exhibited in London and in Manchester in 1856; purchased in 1857 for about $6,000 by Wm. P. Wright, Weehawken, New Jersey, and exhibited in New York in October of that year; thence passed to Mr. Stewart.