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Lesson, Lesson with the Parson (1877); Father with his Children praying to Madonna (1878); Country Physician (1879); Clymene and her Sisters at Phaëton's Grave (1880); Father and Son (1882); Two Sons at their Mother's Deathbed (1883).—Sigurd Müller, 151.

HELT-STOKADE, NICOLAAS VAN, born at Nymwegen about 1614, died in 1669. Dutch school; history and portrait painter, pupil of David Rykaert the elder; for a time court-painter in France, but lived mostly in Rome and Venice, though at Amsterdam in 1654. Many European princes ordered pictures of him, as he was an excellent colourist. He supplied the landscapes of Wynants, Hackaert, and De Heusch with figures. Works: Grain Market under Joseph in Egypt, Town Hall, Amsterdam; Figures in Border of a Forest (by Wynants, 1659), Hague Museum; Susanna at the Bath, Leipsic Museum; Male Portrait, Old Pinakothek, Munich.—Immerzeel, iii. 115; Kramm, v. 1575; De Stuers, 186; Van den Branden, 871.

HÉMICYCLE, Paul Delaroche, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris; encaustic painting, H. 15 ft. × about 50 ft. Scene—the portico of an Ionic temple; in centre sits Apelles enthroned, with Ictinus on his right and Phidias on his left. Near them are five allegorical figures: in front, Fame, nude, kneeling, casting out wreaths from a heap at her side; back of her, at left, seated, are Greek Art and Gothic Art, the latter (with the model of a cathedral) a portrait of Delaroche's wife, daughter of Horace Vernet; at right, Roman Art and Renaissance Art. On each side of this ideal group extend the wings of the picture, in which are grouped the great artists of the world, standing or sitting in their habits as they moved of old. The work contains 75 colossal figures. The original, called the Hémicycle because it occupies the semicircular frieze of the amphitheatre of the Beaux-Arts, was painted in 1837-41. Delaroche received for it 80,000 francs, the price set for a canvas of fifteen figures, the work originally contemplated. It was injured by fire in 1855, but the damage was repaired by the artist himself, aided by Mercier and Fleury. The engraving by Henriquel Dupont cost eight years' labour. Delaroche made for Dupont's use a copy of the work, in small (1853), now owned by W. T. Walters, Baltimore. There is a photogravure of it in Art Treasures of America, together with a key to the figures. The original sketch for the large work is in the Nantes Museum.—Art Treas. of Amer., i. 82; Mrs. Jameson; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), viii. 354.

HEMISSEN (Hemishem, Hemsen), JAN VAN, born at Hemishem (Hemixem), near Antwerp, about 1500, died at Haarlem between 1555 and 1566. Flemish school. Real name Jan Sanders. History and portrait painter, pupil at Antwerp of Hendrik van Cleve in 1519, master of the guild before 1524, its dean in 1548; removed to Haarlem in 1551. Although, in his time, the influence of the Italian school asserted itself strongly, he adhered to the old traditions, and took Quinten Massys for his model. Works: Calling of St. Matthew, Museum, Antwerp; do., Theodor van Lerius, ib.; do., Ghent Museum; Prodigal Son (1556), Brussels Museum; Tobias restoring his Father's Sight (1555), Louvre, Paris; Christ driving out the Money-Changers (1556), Nancy Museum; Madonna, Village Physician, Madrid Museum; Abraham's Sacrifice, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Calling of St. Matthew (1536), Isaac blessing Jacob, Holy Family (1541), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Mocking of Christ (1544), Schleissheim Gallery; Calling of St. Matthew, do. (1537), do. (1548), St. Jerome, St. William, Portrait of Mabuse, Vienna Museum; St. Ursula, Adoration of the Magi, Prince Albert Collection, London. His daughter and pupil, Catharina, was an artist of merit; went with her husband, a musician, to Spain, where both entered the service of the Queen of Hungary. A Male Portrait by