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 replica of which in oil was exhibited at the Academy in 1849, and again at the Royal Jubilee exhibition at Manchester in 1887. To him was also assigned the decoration of the peers' robing room, for which he painted a series of nine subjects illustrative of ‘Human Justice.’ They represent ‘Man's Fall’ and ‘Man's Condemnation to Labour,’ ‘The Judgment of Solomon,’ ‘The Visit of the Queen of Sheba,’ ‘The Building of the Temple,’ ‘The Judgment of Daniel,’ ‘Daniel in the Lions' Den,’ ‘The Vision of Daniel,’ and' Moses bringing the Tables of the Law.’ The ‘Moses’ was executed in the waterglass process, and was in progress fourteen years. It is a work of great merit, and marks the culminating point of the artist's career. The principal works which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in later years were a portrait of Horace Vernet in 1855; ‘The Virgin Mary,’ painted for Queen Victoria, in 1860; ‘Laborare est Orare,’ in 1862; ‘Judith,’ in 1863; ‘The Sower of Good Seed,’ in 1865; ‘St. Edmund, King of East Anglia, on the Morning of his last Battle with the Danes,’ in 1867: ‘The Valley of Moses in the Desert of Sinai,’ in 1868; ‘The Bay of Salamis,’ in 1869; ‘All that's Bright must Fade,’ in 1871; ‘St. Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross,’ in 1873; and ‘The Adoration of the Magi,’ in 1874. His subsequent works gradually grew so weak as to give rise to frequent protests against the positions assigned to them on the walls of the Royal Academy. Herbert retired from the rank of academician in 1886, but continued to exhibit till 1889. He died at The Chimes, Kilburn, London, on 17 March 1890, and his remains were deposited in the catacombs of St. Mary's catholic cemetery at Kensal Green.

Herbert's picture of ‘Sir Thomas More and his Daughter’ is in the Vernon collection in the National Gallery.

Of Herbert's sons, (1834-1856) exhibited in 1855 at the Academy ‘Don Quixote's first impulse to lead the life of a knight-errant,’ and in 1856 ‘Philip IV of Spain knighting Velasquez.’ He died of fever in Auvergne 18 Sept. 1856. Cyril Wiseman, another son, is separately noticed.



HERBERT LOSINGA (d. 1119), bishop of Thetford and Norwich. [See .] 

HERBERT, LUCY (1669–1744), devotional writer, born in 1669, was fourth daughter of, first marquis and titular duke of Powis [q. v.], by his wife Elizabeth, younger daughter of Edward Somerset, second marquis of Worcester. She was professed in the convent of the English Augustinian canonesses at Bruges in 1693, was elected its prioress in 1709, and died on 19 Jan. 1743-4.

She compiled: These two works, together with her ‘Meditations,’ are reprinted in ‘The Devotions of the Lady Lucy Herbert of Powis,’ edited by the Rev. John Morris, S.J., London, 1873,12mo.
 * 1) ‘Several excellent Methods of hearing Mass,’ Bruges, 1722, 8vo; 1742, 12mo; [London], 1791,12mo.
 * 2) ‘Several Methods and Practices of Devotions appertaining to a Religious Life,’ Bruges, 1743, 12mo; [London], 1791, 12mo.



HERBERT, MARY, (1555?–1621), born probably at Penshurst, Kent, about 1555, was third daughter of Sir Henry Sidney, by Mary, eldest daughter of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland. Sir Philip Sidney was her eldest brother, and of her three sisters none reached womanhood. Mary spent her childhood chiefly at Ludlow Castle, where her father resided as president of Wales, and was carefully educated, acquiring a knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Her brother Philip was her constant companion in childhood. When her last surviving sister, Ambrosia, died at Ludlow Castle in 1575, Queen Elizabeth kindly suggested to her father that Mary, ‘being of good hope,’ should be removed from the unhealthy climate of Wales, and reside in the royal household. Her uncle, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, had probably commended her to the queen's notice, and her beauty and grace of manner soon established her position at court. With her mother and brother Philip she seems to have accompanied Elizabeth on a progress through Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the autumn of 1575. In the spring of 1577 Leicester arranged a marriage between her and, second earl of Pembroke [q. v.] The earl had been twice married already. Her father highly approved the match, although his poverty forced him to ask Leicester to advance a part of her dowry (4 Feb. 1576-7). In June 1577, when the new Lady Pembroke was installed in her husband's beautiful house at Wilton, Wiltshire, Leicester paid her a visit, and in