Violinist (1883); Muse (1884); Slave breaking his Chains, Artist's Portrait, Grenoble Museum; Going to the Well, At the Well, Returning from the Well, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Bellier, i. 747; Larousse; Portfolio (1875), 50; Journal des B. Arts (1860), 167; Meyer, Gesch., 541.
HECK, ROBERT, born in Stuttgart in
1831. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of
Stuttgart Art School under Rustige; won
first prize in 1855, visited Southern France
and Italy. Works: Itinerant Preacher,
Stuttgart Museum; Reception of the New
Parson; Peasants in a City Church; Return
of the Landwehrman; Iphigenia on the
Shore; Antigone seeking Polynices on the
Battlefield (1879); Campo Vaccino; Forum
of Nerva; Neapolitans Praying; Italian
Woman.—Müller, 245.
HECKE, JAN VAN DEN, born at Quaremonde,
East Flanders, in 1620, died at
Antwerp, Aug. 22, 1684. Flemish school;
genre, still-life, and animal painter, pupil in
Antwerp of Abraham Hack; master of the
guild in 1642, went to Italy, where he
painted for the Duke of Bracciano, and returned
to Antwerp in 1644. Said to be one
of the best artists of his time. Work: Dead
Game and Hunting Implements watched by
Dogs (1658), Schleissheim Gallery.—Van
den Branden, 1015.
HECKE, NICOLAAS VAN DER, flourished
about 1631 in Alkmaar. Dutch
school; history and landscape painter, pupil
of Jan Nagel. A descendant of Martin
Heemskerk. His composition is grand, the
colouring fine, and the chiaroscuro excellent.
Works: Death Sentence against the Bailiff
of Zuyt—Holland; Judgment of Cambyses,
Solomon's Judgment, Town Hall, Alkmaar;
Tavern Interior (2), Surprisal of Hostile
Camp (?), Dresden Gallery.—Immerzeel, ii.
21; Kramm, iii. 651.
HECKEL, AUGUST VON, born at Landshut,
Bavaria, in 1824. History and genre
painter, pupil of Augsburg Art School, then
of Munich Academy under Schorn and Philipp
Foltz; visited Paris, Belgium, and Italy,
where he remained three years. Works:
Chactas and Atala; Mignon; Margaret at
the Spinning-Wheel; Emigrants; After the
Hail-Storm; Child Found; Mother at the
Cradle; Judith with Head of Holofernes;
Entry of Louis the Bavarian into Rome;
Entry of Max Emanuel into Brussels;
Founding of Bath Kreuth, National Museum,
Munich; Lear casting off Cordelia;
Daughter of Herodias; Cæsar Octavianus
and Cleopatra; Morning on Piazza Navona;
Evening in the Forum; Cobbler; Villa
Mondragone; Maiden of Albano.—Müller,
245.
HEDA, WILLEM CLAASZ, born at Haarlem
in 1594, died after 1678. Dutch school;
still-life painter of eminence; dean of the
guild at Haarlem in 1631 and 1651; painted
occasionally also historical subjects. Works:
Dessert (1637), Louvre, Paris; Breakfast
(1638), Still Life, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Fruits and Vessels, Provinzial Museum,
Hanover; Breakfast (1634), do. (1635), Old
Pinakothek, Munich; do., Schleissheim Gallery;
do., Germanic Museum, Nuremberg;
do., Darmstadt Museum; do. (2), Carlsruhe
Gallery; do. (3, two dated 1646, 1649),
Schwerin Gallery; do. (1678), Gotha Museum.—Bode,
Studien, 223, 230; Burger,
Musées, ii. 320; Immerzeel, ii. 22; Kramm,
iii. 651; Nagler, Mon., ii. 135; Van der
Willigen, 156.
HÉDOUIN, EDMOND, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer,
July 16, 1820. Genre and
landscape painter, pupil of Paul Delaroche
and Célestin Nanteuil. Attracted attention
by his first picture in the Salon (1844), and
followed up his success with many ably
treated scenes of French and Spanish peasant
life. His later years have been more
especially devoted to engraving. Medals:
2d class, 1848; 3d class, 1855, 1857; L. of
Honour, 1872. Medal for engraving, 1868;
1st class, 1872. Works: Woodsmen of the
Pyrenees (1844); The Halt (1846); Souvenirs
of Spain (1847); Arab Mill at Constantine,
The Negro Restaurant (1848); Women
of Ossan at a Fountain (1850); Evening
