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he improved through intercourse with Reinhardt, Koch, and Cornelius; after a short visit home, he passed six years in Italy, and then resided in Munich in 1830-45. In 1845 he painted four large altarpieces in Austria, before going again to Italy, whence he returned to his native town in 1850. Works: Youth at Nain; Magdalen; The Fisherman—after Goethe (1833); Madonna; Christ on Mount of Olives; Bathing Girls; Portraits of Baron von Aretin, of the painter Morgenstern, and many others; Scenes from Mediæval Life in German Castles; four great Altarpieces (1845); St. Geneviève in Prison; Genius with a Child; Mother and Child; Group of Italian Women.—Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 543; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1835), 58; Hamb. K. Lex.; Söltl.


HANTZSCH, JOHANN GOTTLIEB, born at Neudorf, near Dresden, March 19, 1794, died in Dresden, April 3, 1848. Genre painter, pupil of Dresden Academy and of Rössler. He satirized the philistinism of small towns and set forth the humourous aspects of the school-room in his pictures. Works: Saxon Peasant's Room; Village School; Youth hath no Virtue; Sunday Morning (1830), Leipsic Museum; At the Dentist's (1839), National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan (1885), ii. 84.


HAPPEL, FRIEDRICH, born at Arnsberg, Westphalia, May 23, 1825, died in Düsseldorf, July 5, 1854. Animal painter, brother of Peter Friedrich, pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy in 1838-41. Works: Foxes fighting about Dying Buck (1844); Hounds, Foxes hunting Hares, Fighting Stags (1851-52); Fox Family, Young Foxes Playing, Young Foxes waiting for their Parents (1853); Stag Calling (1854); Foxes attacking Wounded Buck (1855).—Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 552; Andresen, v. 197.


HAPPEL, PETER FRIEDRICH, born at Arnsberg, Westphalia, March 26, 1813, died in Düsseldorf, May 23, 1854. Landscape painter, pupil from 1829 of the Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer. Opened a studio in 1842 at Düsseldorf, which he left only at intervals for study at Munich and in the country. He has been called the painter of German summer. Was secretary of the Düsseldorf Artists' Association. Works: View in Sauerland (1837); Mountain Landscape in Rain (1839); View in Isar Valley (1840); Maleiche (1842); Way to Village (1847); Moorland (1848); Harvest Scene, Mill (1850); View in the Eifel, Harvest, with Procession, View in the Odenwald.—Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 552.


HAPPY AS A KING, William Collins, J. Clough, Liverpool; canvas, H. 2 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 11 in. Children swinging on a gate in a wood. Painted in 1836; sold to Messrs. Finden, 275 guineas. Repetition (1836) in National Gallery, from Vernon Collection, 1847. Engraved by E. Finden, C. Cousen.—Wilkie Collins, Memoirs, ii. 66, 349.


HAQUETTE, GEORGES, born in Paris; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Adolphe Millet and of Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1880. Works: Wandering Musicians (1876); At the Guardian's (1877); Scene at Pollet near Dieppe (1878); Francine's Muff, Interior at Pollet (1879); Wandering Musicians in Norman Tavern; Fish-seller at Dieppe (1880); Interior at Mother Panotte's, Father Mazure (1881); Departure for Newfoundland, At the Pier (1882); Right of Passage, Expectation (1883); Salute at Calvary, A Baptism (1884); The Signal (1884), Mrs. M. J. Morgan, New York; Landing of Fishermen, Blast of Wind (1885).—Bellier, i. 741.


HARBURGER, EDMUND, born at Eichstädt, Bavaria, April 4, 1846. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Lindenschmitt; subjects mostly humourous. Works: Beer-Drinker, Village Barber (1872); Contrasts (1873); Senator (1874), Art Union, Munich; Old and Young (1875); Education of Bacchus (1876); Young Venetian Woman; At the Silent Hearth (1883); Seamstress (1884); Head Study, Saint Gall Museum.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), ii. 246; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 743.


HARDING, CHESTER, born at Conway, Mass., Sept. 1, 1792, died in Boston, April