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IlELMRDOKF with Italian Shepherds, Copenhagen Gallery. Immerzeel, ii. 27 ; Kramm, iii. 005. HELMSDORF, FRIEDRICH, born at Magdeburg in 1784, died at Carlsruhe in 1852. Landscape painter, in 1809 settled in Strassburg, where he had many pupils ; visited Italy twice, and lived there in 1816- 20. "Vorks : Tasso's Oak ; Lake of Neiui. HELST, BARTHOLOMEWS VAN DER, born at Haar- lem (or Dor- i d r e c h t ) in 1(513 (?), died in Amster- dam, buried Dec.li;,l(i70. Dutch school; p o r trait i p a i n t c r , either stud- "> i o d u n d e r Frans Hals or took him as his model, and became one of the greatest portrait painters of his time. Lived chiefly at Amsterdam, where in 1654 he and Nicolaas van Helt- Stokade founded the guild of St. Luke. His earliest picture is dated 1(539. Some- times painted sacred and mythological sub- jects. Works : lianqin't of the Civic Guard (1648), /S'yiif/ic.s of the Arquebusiers (1(557), Portraits of Vice-Admiral Kortenaar, An- dries Bicker, Gerard Bicker, Mary Henrietta Stuart, Lieutenant-Admiral Van Nes and Madame Van Nes (1(568), Female Portrait (164(5), Male do. (1G50), Amsterdam Mu- seum ; The Archers (2, 103!) and 105G), Hotel de Ville, Amsterdam ; Portrait of Paul Potter (1(554), Hague Museum ; Portrait of a Preacher (1038), two others (1046), Por- trait of Lady and Gentleman (1654), do. of Daniel Bernard (100!)), Rotterdam Museum ; Man with emptied Glass (1649), Oldenburg Gallery ; Aristocratic Young Couple (1(561), Carlsruhe Gallery ; Male and Female Por- trait, Man with a Ring (1655), Gotha Mu- seum ; Female Portrait (1055), Weimar Mu- seum ; Male do. (1003), Schwerin Gallery ; do. (2, one dated 1051), Copenhagen Gal- lery ; Portraits (3, 1042 and 1643), Cassel Gallery ; do. (2), Brunswick Museum ; do. (3, one dated 1654), Dresden Gallery ; Por- trait of Admiral Tromp, do. of Prince de Chabauais, Male (1(549) and Female Por- trait, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Dutch Fam- ily at Dinner, Innsbruck Museum ; Syn- dics of the Arquebusiers (1653, study for Amsterdam picture), Portrait (1655), do., Louvre ; Presentation of the Betrothed (1047), Family Group (1052), New Market in Amsterdam (1(5(56), Portrait of Govaert Flinck, Male Portrait (1070), three other portraits, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Por- traits of himself and Wife (1664), Brussels Museum ; German Baron and his Family, Portrait of a Lady, Historical Society, New York. Others in Antwerp, Berlin, Geneva, Stockholm, Vienna, and London Galleries. By his son and pupil, Lodewyk, is a Portrait of Admiral Stellingwerf (1070), in the Am- sterdam Museum. Allgem. d. Biogr., xi. 709 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole hollandaise ; Bode, Studien, 112 ; Burger, ii. 218 ; Gower, Fig- ure Painters, 31 ; Riegel, Beitriige, i. 129 ; Scheltema, Amstel's oudheid, i. 159. HELSTED, AXEL THEOFILUS, born in Copenhagen, April 11, 1847. Genre painter, son and pupil of Frederik Ferdi- nand Helsted (1809-75), then pupil of Co- penhagen Academy, where he took a medal in 1804 ; went in 1809 to Paris, where lie studied under Bonnat, and thence to Italy. Works : Portrait of Professor Stephens (1809) ; do. of the painter Kuchler (1878) ; From the Villa Borghese (1870) ; After the 232