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to the belief that he was the great historical painter of the age, and that his efforts would in time be appreciated. His Raising of Lazarus (14 x 20 ft.), now in the National Gallery, was exhibited with some success in 1823, and a few years afterwards his Venus appearing to Anchises, Alexander taming Bucephalus, and Euclus. By teaching and lecturing he maintained his family for a time, but falling into new troubles and overwhelmed by disappointment at the cold reception given in 1846 to his Banishment of Aristides, and Nero watching the Burning of Rome, he committed suicide. Haydon's Lectures on Painting were published in 1844-46, and his Life from his autobiography and journals, edited and compiled by Tom Taylor, in 1853. Works: Portrait of Himself, Leigh Hunt, Anti-Slavery Convention, National Portrait Gallery; Punch or May-Day, Raising of Lazarus, National Gallery; Cassandra, Stafford House.-Correspondence, etc., by his son (London, 1876); Stoddard, Life, Letters, etc. (New York, 1876); Redgrave; F. de Conches, 419; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Art Journal (1856), 181.


HAYE, REYNIER DE LA, born at The Hague (?), where mentioned as member of the guild in 1662. Genre, portrait, and still-life painter, in the manner of Terborch and Metsu; removed from The Hague to Utrecht, where he was received into the guild in 1669; then appears as master of the guild at Antwerp in 1672. Works: Lady playing the Lute, Gotha Museum; Flowers and Fruits, Festoon of Flowers with Insects, Schwerin Gallery.


HAYEZ, FRANCESCO, born in Venice, Feb. 10, 1791, died in Milan, Feb. 11, 1882. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Maggiotto and of Venice Academy under Cicognara; studied also in Farsetti Gallery, then at Milan Academy, where in 1809 he obtained the prize for Rome, there studied under Palagi, and then went to Florence and Venice; painted afterwards frescos in the Vatican, Rome, and in Venice Academy; went to Milan in 1820, and there became professor at the Academy and the head of the romantic school. One of the most prominent among modern Italian painters, especially noted as a colourist. Works: Compassion of Ezekiel; Laocoön (1812); Pietro Rossi taking Farewell of his Family (1820), Brera, Milan; Sicilian Vespers; Count Carmagnola hearing his Death Sentence; Mary Stuart on her way to the Scaffold; Filippo Maria Visconti and the Queens of Aragon and Navarra (1829); Imelda de' Lambertazzi; Peter the Hermit; Fugitives of Parga; Maria Theresa at Hungarian Diet; The Two Foscari, Vienna Museum; Foscarini refusing the Hand of Valenza Graden-*niga (1833); Last Moments of Marino Faliero; Vittore Pisani called from Prison to take Command of the Army; Thirst of the Crusaders; Bath of the Nymphs; Rape of Ida; Leda; Greek Pirates; The Kiss; Battle of Magenta, Portrait of Cavour (1867); Flight of Bianca Capello, National Gallery, Berlin.—L'Illustrazione italiana, 1875; Brockhaus, viii. 932; Nagler, vi. 18; Orloff, ii. 262.


HAYLS, JOHN, died at Bloomsbury in 1679. Portrait painter, the contemporary and in some degree the rival of Lely; was an excellent copyist of Van Dyck. Works: Portrait of Samuel Pepys, National Portrait Gallery; Portraits of Bedford Family, Woburn Collection.—Redgrave; Pepys' Diary, Feb. 15, March 17, 30, April 11, June 14, 1666; see also do., Mynor Bright's edition (1876) under April 13, 1666.


HAYMAN, FRANCIS, born at Exeter in 1708, died in London, Feb. 2, 1776. History painter, pupil of Robert Brown, a portrait and decorative painter (died 1753); employed as scene painter at Drury Lane and as an illustrator of books. Painted a series of designs for Vauxhall Gardens, which won him fame; became president of the Society of Artists, and one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy, of which he was the first librarian in 1770. Works: Finding of Moses, Foundling Hospital; Portrait of himself with Sir R. Wal-