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HAYWARD, Richard, statuary. He was much employed towards the end of the 18th century, ana exhibited some bas-reliefs with the Society of Arts in 1761. He died August 11, 1800.

HAYWARD, J. S., amateur. He was an occasional honorary exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1805 to 1812, sending * Diana and Actaeon/ 'Breaking up the Camp, Southsea Common/ ' Mounts Bay, Even- ing, Fisherman preparing to go out ; ' and many views in Italy. His works were in water-colours, sketchy and powerful; his figures well drawn.

HAZLEHURST, Thomas, miniature painter. He practised at Liverpool in the last half of the 18th century. Some of his earliest works are dated in 1760, and he continued to practice up to 1818, and ex- hibited at the Liverpool Exhibition. His miniatures are cleverly and highly finished, and are frequently signed with his initials, ' T. H.'

HAZLITT, John, miniature painter. He was born at Wem, in Shropshire, the son of a Unitarian minister. He came to London shortly before 1788, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from that year to 1819. His works were confined exclusively to miniature. Some few of his latter works were in oil, and there is an oil miniature by him of Joseph Lancaster in the National Portrait Gallery. He did not attain to much excellence in his art. He died at Stock- port, May 16. 1837, in his 70th year.

HAZLITT, William, artist and critic. Younger brother of the above. He was born in 1778, and educated at the Unitarian College, at Hackney. He commenced life as an artist, and in some of his early studies showed much ability. He appears at the Academy in 1802 as an exhibitor of a por- trait of his father, but he early renounced art for literature. He was distinguished by his numerous critical writings. Of those bearing upon art the chief were — c The Con- versations of Northcote, R.A./ ' Criticisms on Art/ ' A Translation of Quatremere de Quincy's work on the Madonnas of Raphael/ and Duppa's ' Lives of Michael Angelo and Raphael. He died in Frith Street, Soho, September 18, 1830, and was buried in St. Anne's Churchyard, where a monument is erected to him.

HEAD, Guy, portrait painter. Born at Carlisle, where his father was a house painter. He was instructed in drawing, and showing much ability, he came to London and entered as a student of the Royal Academy, where he was noticed by Rey- nolds, and assisted by a friend to study in Italy. He contributed to the Spring Gar- dens Exhibition, in 1780, 'The Fire at London Bridge Waterworks/ and some small whole-length portraits. He resided many years at Rome, where he was settled 206

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in 1794, and was employed largely in copy- ing ; but he painted some original works, which are not without merit. He returned home shortly after the breaking out of the French Revolution, and exhibited at the Academy two classic works and a portrait. He died suddenly in London, December 16, 1800. He is best known as a copyist. His works were sold by auction in 1805, but did not attract much notice. C. Turner en- graved a horse's head after him.

HEAPHY, Thomas, water-colour painter. He was born in London, Decem- ber 29, 1775. His father was descended from a French family. He commenced life as an apprentice to a dyer, disliking which trade, he was transferred to an en- graver, but his inclination was rather to painting, he employed his extra hours in its pursuit, and attended an art school of some repute in Finsbury. He married before his apprenticeship expired, had recourse to colouring prints to assist his young wife's maintenance, and tried his hand at portrait painting. In 1800 he ex- j hibited at the Academy, for the first time, two portraits, and became a student in the schools. He continued an exhibitor, chiefly of portraits, till 1804, when he produced a subject picture, ' The Portland Fish Girl/

He had made some successful attempts in water-colours, and was already popular in that art. In 1807 he was admitted an associate exhibitor of the Water-Colour Society, and in the following year a mem- ber. His ' Hastings Fish Market/ exhibited with the Society in 1809, was sold for 500

guineas, and raised him to the first rank in is art. He was appointed portrait painter to the Princess of Wales, whom he painted in miniature, and also many other distin- guished persons; but his subject pictures gained less attention, and many remained unsold. He soon after (1812) left the Water-Colour Society, and, giving himself up to portraiture, he quitted England for the Bntish camp in the Peninsula, where he was employed in painting the portraits of the officers, ana continued with the army till the end of the war. On his return to England he painted a large picture of the Duke of Wellington and his Staff, a portrait composition, which was engraved, and had great success.

For some time after this he occupied him- self in a building speculation at St. John's Wood, and his art was only practised occa- sionally. When he wished to resume it more actively, he was aware that his long absence had quite severed him from the Water-Colour Society, and he began to agi- tate most actively to found the Society of British Artists, and when formed was elected its president. He contributed nine works to the first exhibition in 1824, but from some misunderstanding left the Society in-