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 28, 1878. History and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy. Returned in 1828 to his native town, painted altarpieces, and in 1832 went to Munich, where he soon acquired reputation as a portrait painter. After 1835, when he had moved to Augsburg, he devoted himself exclusively to religious subjects, and executed many altarpieces; after 1839, decorated several churches in fresco; returned to Bregenz in 1876. Works: Portrait of Dillis (1832), New Pinakothek, Munich; Portrait of Eigner (1835), Augsburg Gallery; Portrait of Bishop Albert Rieg; Christ on Mount of Olives; St. Peter on the Waters.—Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 576.

HUNIN, (PIERRE PAUL) ALOUIS, born at Mechlin, Dec. 7, 1808, died there, Feb. 27, 1855. Genre painter, son of, and first instructed by, the engraver Mathieu Hunin, then pupil of Braekeleer, and in Paris of Ingres and Cogniet. Medals: Brussels, 1839, 1845; The Hague, 1841; Order of Leopold. Works: Girl praying for her Mother (1834); Young Draughtsman (1836); Paternal Lesson, Marriage Ceremony (1839); Mother's Anxiety (1840); Return of Wounded Soldier (1841); Return from Baptism (1842); Father's Last Advice (1843); Opening of the Will (1845), Berlin Museum; Maria Theresa visiting Poor Family; Distribution of Alms.—Immerzeel, ii. 67; Kramm, iii. 771.

HUNS, BATTLE OF THE, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, New Museum, Berlin; mural painting, staircase hall. In the background, Rome; before it a field strewn with dead bodies gradually awakening, rising, and rallying; among them wailing women. At the heads of the two ghostly hosts are Attila, carried on a shield by the Huns, and wielding a scourge, and Theodoric with his two sons, behind whom is raised the banner of the Cross.

HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM, born in Liverpool in 1831. Landscape painter, pupil of his father, a drawing teacher of Liverpool; is a graduate and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. First picture to bring him into notice was Stream from Llyn Idwal, Caernarvonshire, exhibited at Royal Academy in 1856. Paints in both oil and water-colours. Among the former are: Debatable Ground (1862); Morning Mist on Loch Maree (1870); Goring Lock on the Thames (1871); From Moor to Mount (1874); Summer Days for Me! (1876); On the Coast of Yorkshire (1877); Norwegian Midnight, Leafy June (1879); Safe in the Mud, Golden Night (1881); Sonning—Mid-*day (1882); North Country Stream (1883).

HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY, born in London, March 28, 1790, died there, Feb. 10, 1864. Landscape, still-life, and genre painter in water-colours; pupil of John Varley and of the Royal Academy, where he exhibited, in 1807, Scene near Hounslow, and View near Reading; became, in 1827, a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. Among his best works are: The Laboratory, The Attack, The Defeat, The Orphans, The Itinerant, Mulatto Girl, Ballad-Singer, Study of Gold—A Smoked Pilchard, Study of Rose Grey—A Mushroom (1860); Dead Humming-Bird (1864); Still Life, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Ottley; Ruskin, Notes on S. Prout and Wm. Hunt (London, 1879).

HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN, born in London, April, 1827. Pupil of John Varley, and in 1845 of the Royal Academy, where he exhibited his first picture, Hark! in 1846. In 1849 he took his stand with Millais and others of the so-called Pre-Raphaelites, and has since been one of the most earnest apostles of that school of painting. In 1854-55 he visited Egypt and Syria, and has since spent much time in the East, especially in Jerusalem, where several of his pictures were painted. Works: Little Nell and her Grand