1667. Flemish school; history painter, son of and first instructed by Nicolaas van Herp (pupil of Hendrik van Balen in 1602, and master of the guild in 1606); then (1627) pupil of Adam van Noort; master of the guild in 1637. Works: St. Roch adoring the Virgin, The Plague-Stricken invoking St. Roch, Godshuizen, Antwerp.—Van den Branden, 922.
HERPFER, KARL, born at Dinkelsbühl,
Bavaria, Nov. 30, 1836. Genre painter, pupil
of Munich Academy under Ramberg;
paints mostly rococo scenes, better in drawing
and colour than in composition. Works:
The Coquette; Good News; Disagreeable
News; The Nurse; Gentle Waking; Interrupted
Festival; Scene from Molière's "Narcisse";
Disturbed Betrothal (1872), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg.—Müller, 253.
HERPIN, LÉON, born at Granville, Normandy,
Oct. 12, 1841, died Oct. 27, 1880.
Landscape and porcelain painter, pupil of
Daubigny, J. André, and Busson. Medals:
3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1876. Works:
Seine at Sèvres (1868); Environs of Dinan
(1869); Views of Bas-Meudon (1870); Island
of Chansey (1872); The Oise, River in the
Woods (1874); The Marne at Chennevières,
The Knoll of Moulineaux (1875); Bridge of
Sèvres, The Little Bridge of San Jacut
(1876); Environs of Cherbourg, Salt Marshes
of the Pouliquen (1877); Paris at Evening
from the Bridge of Saints Pères (1878),
Paris from the Pont Neuf (1878), Luxembourg
Museum; do. in 1878 (1879), bought
by the city; Castle of Gaillard (1880); Old
Mill at Bonneuil, Gate of La Villette
(1881).—Amer. Art Rev. (1881), 88; L'Art
(1880), xxiii. 168; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix.
461.
HERR, MICHAEL, born at Metzingen,
Würtemberg, in 1591, died at Nuremberg
in 1661. German school; history and portrait
painter; seems to have gone to Nuremberg
early in life, and returned in 1620 after
a visit to Italy. Works: The Seven Liberal
Arts with Mars and Justice (1622); Nuremberg
during the Siege in Thirty Years' War,
Male Portrait (1639), Germanic Museum,
Nuremberg.
HERREGOUTS, HENDRIK, born at
Mechlin, April 1, 1633, died at Antwerp
before March 3, 1704. Flemish school;
history painter, son and pupil of David
Herregouts (born at Mechlin in 1600), spent
several years at Rome studying after the best
masters, was at Cologne about 1661, came
to Antwerp, and entered the guild there in
1664, but soon removed to Mechlin, where
he became master of the guild in 1666; went
afterwards again to Germany and Italy,
whence he returned to Antwerp in 1679.
Painted altarpieces for churches in all the
principal cities of Belgium. Works: Martyrdom
of St. Matthew, Antwerp Cathedral;
Last Judgment, St. Ann's, Bruges; Martyrdom
of St. Basil, St. Basil's, ib.; St. Augustine
in Ecstasy, St. John's Hospital, ib.;
St. Dominic in Prayer, Notre Dame, ib.;
Assumption, St. Magdalen's, ib.; Apotheosis
of Christ, St. Peter and Paul's, Mechlin;
Trinity, Cologne Museum.—Descamps, iii.
105; Kramm, iii. 681; Merlo, 175; Van den
Branden, 947.
HERREGOUTS, JAN BAPTIST, born in
Gelders about 1640, died at Bruges in 1721.
Flemish school; history and portrait painter,
brother of preceding, like whom he visited
Italy, then entered the guild at Antwerp in
1673; removed to Bruges in 1682, and there
became master of the guild in 1684. Works:
Circumcision, Assumption, St. Ann's, Bruges;
Presentation in the Temple, The Virgin and
Saints kneeling before Christ, Church of the
Carmelites, ib.; two portraits (1699, 1709),
St. John's Hospital, ib.; portrait of himself,
do. of his Father, Academy, ib.; The Cardinal
Virtues (3), Town Hall, Ostend.—Van
den Branden, 948.
HERRENBURG, JOHANN ANDREAS,
born in Berlin, Feb. 6, 1824. Architecture
and landscape painter, pupil of Biermann;
travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, and
in 1845 went to Athens, whence by order of
King Otto he travelled through the Morea
in search of ancient monuments. In 1846
