with Figures; Moonlight on Via Appia, Morning on Lake Avernus (1884).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), i. 275.
HERBELIN, Mme. JEANNE MATHILDE
(née Habert), born in Brunoy
(Seine-et-Oise), Aug. 24, 1820. Miniature
painter, pupil of her uncle, Belloc. Began
by painting in oils. Painted the only miniature
ever admitted to the Luxembourg.
Has visited Italy. Medals: 3d class, 1843;
2d class, 1844; 1st class, 1847, 1848, 1855.
Works: Margaret of Spain (after Velasquez);
Rembrandt's Virgin; Peasant Woman, Burgundian
Shepherdess; The Prayer; A Souvenir;
Child holding a Rose; Girl playing
with a Fan (1855).
HERBERT, JOHN ROGERS, born at
Maldon, Essex, Jan. 23, 1810. History and
portrait painter, pupil in London of Royal
Academy; began by painting portraits and
drawing book-illustrations; first subject
picture exhibited, The Appointed Hour.
After visiting Italy, exhibited Brides of Venice
(1839). His conversion to Roman Catholicism
(1840) has had a marked influence
on his art. Elected an A.R.A. in 1841, and
R.A. in 1846, when he was commissioned to
paint frescos in the Houses of Parliament.
Corresponding Member of Institute of
France. Works: Introduction of Christianity
into Britain (1842); Sir Thomas
More and his Daughter (1844), National
Gallery; St. Gregory teaching his Chant
(1845); St. John reproving Herod (1848);
Mary Magdalen (1859); Virgin Mary (1860);
To Labour is to Pray (1862); Valley of
Moses (1868); Adoration of Magi (1874);
David while a Shepherd, Our Lord after
Resurrection (1878); Youth of St. John the
Baptist (1879); Christmas Eve at Bethlehem
(1880); Joseph warned that Archelaus Reigns,
Flight from the Sword of Herod (1881); Justice
not always Slow, Happy Valley, Appointed
Hour, Esther with Handmaidens (1882);
Madonna, Captive Musician (1883); Treasures
of the Home, Ruth with the Reapers
at Meal-time, Evening near Windsor, Bend
on the Thames (1884). His son and pupil
Cyril Wiseman, born in France in 1848, died
in London in 1882, was an artist of the
brightest promise.—Sandby, ii. 179.
HERBST (Herbster), HANS, born in
Strasburg about 1468. German school;
master in 1492 of the guild of Basle, where
Hans Holbein, the younger, painted his portrait
in 1516. In 1500 painted an altarpiece
for the convent of St. Dominick. Gave up
painting after the Reformation, having scruples
about ministering to picture-worship.—Cotta's
Kunstbl. (1846), 46; W. & W., ii.
483.
HERBSTHOFFER, KARL, born at Pressburg,
Hungary, April 17, 1821, died in Paris
in 1876. Genre painter, pupil of Vienna
Academy under Amerling; went afterwards
to Paris, where he became naturalized, and
adopted Isabey's style. Works: Arpád
elected Duke of the Magyárs (1842); Maskerade
at Worms in 16th Century, Tasso
reading to Duchess of Ferrara (1843); Hungarian
Robbers in Ambush (1843), Schwerin
Gallery; Episode during the Inquisition in
Holland (1846), owned by State; Iconoclasts
(1846), Avery Sale, New York, 1870; Studio
of Van Ostade (1849); Daniel in Lions' Den,
Lady Macbeth, Episode in Thirty Years' War
(1850); Temptation (1852); Raising of Lazarus
(1855), owned by State; Studio of Rubens
(1857); Partie Carrée, Scene in St. Bartholomew's
Night, Duel on Banks of the
Seine (1859); Gunsmith, Antechamber in
Time of Louis XIII. (1863), both bought by
State; Last Resource (1865); Religious Instruction
in Jewish Family (1868); Arrest
(1871); Convulsionnaires in the Cemetery,
After the Pillage (1876).—Bellier, i. 760;
Kunst-Chronik, v. 189; Wurzbach, viii. 362;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 215.
HERCULANEUM, Hector Leroux, John
G. Johnson, Philadelphia; canvas, H. 3 ft.
× 4 ft. Destruction of Herculaneum, A.D.
79, by the eruption of Vesuvius, which is
seen in background; in foreground, a group
of fugitives, mostly women, gazing on the
spectacle.—Salon, 1881.
HERCULES, ancient pictures. See
