Madeira, Evening in Madeira, Fort St. Elmo, Horse-Love, Moonlight on Scotch Coast (1851); Naples with Vesuvius, View near Cairo, Bay of Madeira, Coast of Madeira (1852); Sea of Marmora, Castle and Park, Children with Sleigh (1853); Flood-Tide, Strand, On Gosau Lake, Alpenglühen, San Giorgio by Moonlight (1854); Moonlight on Scotch Coast, Winter Landscape, On Brienz Lake, View of Bethlehem, View of Jerusalem, Children Playing (1855); Pool of Bethesda, Nazareth, Stormy Sea, On the Fish-Pond, Under the Willows (1856); Moonlight, Sunset, Tropical Landscape, North Cape (1857); Village Scene, Coast with Light-*house (1860); Cave at Staffa (1865); Benares on the Ganges, Evening in Siam (1866); Holy Lake in Burmah, Moonlight near Macao, Chinese Fishermen (1867); Sunlight in Jersey, Evening in Siam (1868); Surge on Baltic Sea, Dover Castle, Marine with Fort Rouge, Winter Landscape, Stettin Museum; Coast of Normandy, Winter Landscape (1846), Sea-Shore in Evening Light (1855), Castle Kronborg near Elsinore (1857), National Gallery, Berlin; Moonrise in Madeira, Corcoran Gallery, Washington.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 402; Illustr. Zeitg. (1868), 372; Bruno Meyer, Studien, 376; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 335; Land und Meer (1869), i. 223; Zeitschr. f. b. K., i. 25; iv. 261, 336.
HILDEBRANDT, THEODOR, born in
Stettin, July 2, 1804,
died in Düsseldorf,
Sept. 29, 1874. History,
genre, and portrait
painter, pupil
from 1820 of the
Berlin Academy, and
from 1823 under
Schadow, whom, in
1826, he accompanied
to Düsseldorf,
where he soon became celebrated, and was
made in 1832 assistant, and in 1836 professor,
at the Academy. In 1829 with Schadow,
and later, he repeatedly visited the
Netherlands, where he was influenced by
the realistic school of Wappers; went in
1830 to Italy, where, as later in Paris, he
studied the old masters, especially of the
Dutch school. Member of the Berlin and
Vienna Academies. Works: Faust and
Mephistopheles (1824); Faust and Gretchen
(1825); Lear and Cordelia (1826); Romeo
and Juliet (1827); Tancred and Clorinda
(1828); Caution against the Water-Sprite
(1830); Judith and Holofernes (1830); The
Robber (1829), Warrior and Child (1832),
National Gallery, Berlin; Story-teller (1832);
Sick Senator (1833); Choir Boys in Gothic
Church (1834); Assassination of Sons of
Edward IV. (1836), Raczynski Gallery, Berlin;
Christmas Eve (1840); Reception of
Cardinal Wolsey in the Monastery (1842);
Doge and Daughter (1843), Stettin Museum;
Judith (1844); Italian Woman (1845);
Othello (1847); Lear awakening from Insanity
(1851); Juliet taking the Poison
(1853); Arthur and De Burgh (1855); Cordelia
reading the Letter to Kent (1859),
Christiania Museum; Copy of St. Francis
by Rubens (1850), Düsseldorf Academy;
Portrait of Artist's Father, Cologne Museum;
Cordelia and King Lear, Mrs. A. T.
Stewart, New York; Portraits of Princes
Frederic, Georg, and
Albrecht of Prussia, of
Count Stolberg, of
Schadow; do. of Wappers
(1849), Düsseldorf
Gallery.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., xii. 405;
Blanckarts, 75; W.
Müller, Düsseldorf K., 180; Illustr. Zeitg.
(1874), ii. 359; Kunst-Chronik, x. 39.
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HILGERS, KARL, born in Düsseldorf in 1818. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy; spent some time in Berlin and studied the Dutch and French masters; represents nature, especially in her winter aspects, often with architectural accessories, with much skill. Works: Dutch Cottages in Winter (1839); View near Amsterdam (1840 and 1841); Winter Landscape, Chapel in the Snow (1845); Casemate on the Dan-
