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HOKCKE Museum; Resurrection, Schleissheim Gal- lery ; Madonna and Angels, Allegory on Transitoriness, January and February, July and August, September and October, Day and Night, Archduke Leopold William in Prayer, do. on Horseback, Museum, Vienna ; Samson and Delilah, Massacre of the Inno- cents, Cimou and Pera, Liechtenstein Gal- lery, ib. All ye in. d. 549; C h . Blanc, Ecole rtamande; Cat. du Musee d'Anvers (1874). 429 ; Immerx.eel, ii. 42 ; Kramni, iii. 699 ; Michiels, viii. 97 ; Rooses (Reber), 317 ; Van den Branden, 794. HOECKE, ROBRECHT VAN DEN, born in Antwerp, Nov. 30, 1622, died after 1695. Flemish school ; genre, landscape, and bat- tle painter, son and pupil of Kasper, and half-brother of Jan ; master of the guild in 1645. His style was evidently influenced by Teniers the younger, and his pictures are admired for great delicacy of tone, splendid colouring, and richness of compo- sition. While controller of the fortifications of Flanders he painted many military camps and scenes, executing the figures on a small scale and with great minuteness. Works : Skating in Town-moat at Brussels (1649), View of Ostend, Military Camps (3), March of Troops, Halt of Travellers by an Inn, Flemish Store-room (1695), Nocturnal Con- flagration, Vienna Museum ; Military Camp (1665), Dunkirk Museum. Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 549 ; Immerzeel, ii. 43 ; Kramni, iii. 700 ; Van den Branden, 797. HOECKERT, JOHANX FREDRIK, born at Jonkoping, Aug. 26, 1826, died inGi>teburg, Sept. 16, I860. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Stockholm Academy under Boklund, with whom he went to Munich in 1846. After his return (1849) he visited Lapland, went in 1853 to Paris, where he allied him- self with Max Hess, travelled in 1857 through Holland, Belgium, and England, in 1858 made studies in Dalecarlia, and in 1861 vis- ited Spain, Italy, and North Africa. Medals in 1857, 18(i(! ; Orders of Wasa and North Star. Works: Bandits (184(5); Queen Chris- tina ordering Execution of Monaldeschi (1853); Divine Service in Lapland Chapel (1855); Return from Chase in Lapland ; Interior of Lapland Hut (1S57), Lapland Wedding (1858), Stockholm Museum ; Res- cue of Gustavus Viisa (1858); Peasant Wo- man at the Hearth (186-2); Portraits of Bey of Tunis (18<!1), and Charles XV.; Burning of Palace in Stockholm in Ki'.l" ; Bellman in Sergell's Studio ; Dead Bodv of Charles XL Tailor. HOEFEL, JOHANN NEPOMTK, born in I'esth in 17S(i, died in Vienna in Feb., 1864. History and portrait painter, pupil of KralVt and of Vienna Academy, where he won the great pri/e in 1S11 ; visited Italy in 181S, and after his return painted many altarpieces for churches in Austria and Hun- gary. Works: .Egeus recognizing Theseus by his Sword (ISlli; Sons of Diagoras as Victors at Olympia ( 18-20); Scries of T went v- Four Figures for Imperial Palace; Poll rait of Ladislaus Pyrker. Wurzbach, i. H7 ; Hormayr, Archiv., 6'23. HOEFNAGEL, JOHIS, born at Antwerp in 1545, died in Vienna after Kil8. Flem- ish school ; genre, landscape, portrait, and miniature painter, mostly self-taught, but for a time pupil at Mechlin of Jan Bol, after having travelled through France and Spain in 1563-65, where lie made many drawings of notable objects. Returned to Antwerp, and uniting with his art the business of a jewel dealer, he and his father were pillaged of everything on the invasion by the Span- iards in 1576, and went to Augsburg, thence to Munich, where, after a visit to Italy, he spent eight years, patronized by the elector; visited England about 158'2 ; worked tem- porarily for the Archduke Ferdinand at Innsbruck, then entered the service of Em- peror Rudolph at Prague, for whom he illus- trated four books on natural history, and finally settled at Vienna. Works : Minia- ture View of Seville (1573, masterpiece),