of Jan Jozef Horemans, the elder, and of Peeter Snyers; went in 1730 to Paris, where he won several medals (1730, 1731, 1732); painted chiefly grisailles. Works: Coat of Arms of Abbey Saint-Michel, do. of Abbot Jacques Thomas, Prudence, Justice, Force, Instruction in Perspective (1761), Antwerp Museum.—Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 149; Van den Branden, 1214.
HEUSCH, GUILLIAM (Willem) DE,
born at Utrecht in 16—?, died in 1699
(1712?). Dutch school; landscape painter,
said to have studied in Italy under Jan
Both, whom he imitated. Dean of guild in
Utrecht in 1649. Works: Road with Shepherd
and Herd (1629), Dresden Gallery;
Landscape with Cattle and Shepherds (1696),
Louvre; Italian View with Waterfall, Rotterdam
Museum; Italian Landscape (3), Amsterdam
Museum; do. (2), Hague Museum;
Mountainous Landscape, Cassel Gallery;
do., Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do., Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Evening Landscape with
Ruin, Vienna Museum; others in Brunswick,
Frankfort, Copenhagen, and Stockholm Galleries.—Ch.
Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel,
ii. 36; Kramm, iii. 686; De Stuers,
47; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 371.
HEUSCH, JACOB DE, born at Utrecht
in 1657, died in Amsterdam in 1701. Dutch
school; landscape painter, nephew and pupil
of Guilliam de Heusch, whom he imitated;
went to Italy, where he studied from nature
and the works of Salvator Rosa. His pictures
so clearly resembled those of his uncle
that the members of the Schilderbent in
Rome called him Affdruck (copyist). Landscape
pleasing, colour good, composition
well distributed, enlivened with figures and
animals. Works: Ponte Rotto in Rome
(1696), Brunswick Museum; Landscapes
(2, 1699), Landing-Place on a Lake (1699),
Vienna Museum; Mountainous Landscapes
(2), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel,
ii. 37; Quellenschriften, xiv. 429; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 416.
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HEUSS, EDUARD VAN, born at Oggersheim, Rhenish Palatinate, in 1808, died in 1880. History and portrait painter; studied in Munich and Rome, where he joined the artistic circle of Cornelius and companions, and was on intimate terms with Thorwaldsen. On his travels afterwards through Holland, Paris, and London he was much influenced by Rubens and Rembrandt. Painted more than eighty portraits, many life-size, of reigning princes, dignitaries, and representatives of science and art, among them Thorwaldsen and Overbeck. Works: Rape of Europa (1832), Darmstadt Museum; Annunciation, Mater Amabilis, Mater Gloriosa, Mater Dolorosa, Mater Salvatoris, New Pinakothek, Munich.—Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 648.
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HEYDEN, AUGUST (JACOB THEODOR)
VON, born in
Breslau, June 13, 1827.
History painter, pupil
in Berlin of Steffeck,
and in Paris of Gleyre
and Couture; won the
gold medal, and afterwards
repeatedly visited
Italy to study the monumental
painting of the
Renaissance. Works:
St. Barbara as Patron Saint of Miners (1864);
Luther and Frundsberg before the Imperial
Diet, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Luther
in Wittenberg; Arion on Waves of the
Sea (1868), Berlin Opera-House; Wooing of
French Ambassador for Princess Clemence
(1869); The Siesta, The Fairy-Tale (1870);
Festive Morning (1870), National Gallery,
Berlin; Happy Times, The Anglers, Ride of
the Walkyries (1872); Leucothea, Martyr
at the Stake, Œdipus and the Sphinx, Olof's
Wedding Ride (1878); Fresco paintings in
