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 *scape with Figures, Angers Museum.—Bellier, i. 779; Larousse.

HOUZÉ, FLORENTIN, born at Tournay in 1812. History and genre painter, pupil at Liége of Hennequin, and of Antwerp Academy under Nicaise de Keyser, then studied in Paris, and returned to Tournay in 1844; received a medal in 1842; lives in Brussels. He paints also good portraits. Works: Last Moments of Lord Percy (1839); Entering the Convent (1846); St. Vincent de Paula and the Inundated; St. Charles Borromeo with People infected by the Plague, St. Augustine healing a Sick Man; Cardinal's Visit to Hospital, Tournay Museum; Crucifixion; Return from Masked Ball; Italian Beggars.—Journal des. B. Arts (1860), 143; Müller, 267.

HOVE, BARTHOLOMEUS JOHANNES VAN, born at The Hague, Oct. 28, 1790, died in 1880. Painter of city views and church interiors, pupil of Breckenheimer; medal, 1842. Member of Amsterdam Academy and several others; won great reputation and several medals from art associations, and received costly presents from several potentates. Subsequently was theatre painter at The Hague. Professor at Hague Academy. Order of Oaken Crown, 1847. Works: View of Musée Royal at The Hague, City Views (2), Amsterdam Museum; Dutch City by Moonlight, Ghent Museum; do., Rotterdam Museum; City on a River, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Immerzeel, ii. 59; Kramm, iii. 760; vii. 86.

HOVE, HUBERTUS VAN, born at The Hague in 1814, died at Antwerp in 1865. Architecture and landscape painter, son and pupil of preceding, and pupil of Hendrik van de Sande Backhuyzen; settled at Antwerp. Gold medal, 1852; Order of Leopold, 1857. Painted afterwards also good kitchen-pieces. Works: View on Sea-Shore, Rotterdam Museum; Fishing Expedition, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam; Interior, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Chamber in City Hall at Amsterdam (1837), Leipsic Museum; Vestibule, New Pinakothek, Munich; Kitchen Interior, Historical Society, New York.—Immerzeel, ii. 60; Kramm, iii. 760.

HOVE, VICTOR VAN, born at Renaix, East Flanders, in 1825. Genre painter, was at first a sculptor. His affecting scenes from popular life are painted in a pleasing manner. Order of Leopold, medals in Paris (1863) and Vienna (1873). Works: Orphans going to Church (1863); Protestant Girl's Sunday (1864); On Way to School (1865); Fisherman's Return on Coast of Flanders; The Present; Sunday Morning in Holland (1869).—Jour. des B. Arts (1860), 158; Müller, 268.

HÖVEMEYER, AUGUST, born at Bückeburg, Oldenburg, Sept. 23, 1824, died in Munich, Jan. 13, 1878. History painter, pupil of the Munich Academy under Kaulbach and Schwind, but formed himself chiefly after the works of Genelli, and was one of the last representatives of the school of Cornelius. In 1856-58 he was employed upon extensive fresco paintings in Würzburg, Berne, and Leipsic. In 1864-65 visited Italy, where he copied Raphael's School of Athens, and Titian's Venus; worked in 1867-69 in Stuttgart and Munich, and executed in 1872-74 ten large compositions in oil and fresco for the Railroad Directors' building in Ludwigshafen. Works: Allegorical Figures (1851), Royal Villa, Berchtesgaden; Expulsion from Paradise (1854); Christmas Night, Start for the Alp (1855). Frescos: Allegories in the Railway Station at Würzburg (1856); in the Federal Palace, Berne (1856-57); Eight compositions from Cupid and Psyche (1858), Leipsic Museum; The Flood, 1860 (cartoon); Three historical pictures (1863), National Museum, Munich; Prometheus (1866), in America; six ceiling paintings in oil, and four Allegories in fresco (1872-74), Ludwigshafen.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 215; Jour. des. B. Arts, Jan. 15, 1863; Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 302; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 454.

HOVENDEN, THOMAS, born at Dunmanway, Ireland, in 1840. Genre painter, pupil of the School of Design, Cork, and of