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HJALTALIN, DORSTEIN ILLIA, born in Iceland in 1771, died at Brunswick in 1817. German school; landscape painter, pupil at Salzdahlum, Brunswick, of Johann Friedrich Weitsch, whom he even surpassed in the treatment of trees. He was the sixteenth son of his parents, was shipwrecked in Denmark, and wandered under great privations to Poland, and thence to Brunswick. Studied diligently the famous works in the Salzdahlum Gallery, and in 1802 visited Dresden, where he painted two landscapes in the manner of Ruisdael that excited the admiration of connoisseurs.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 383.


HLAVÁCEKCEK so wiki says??], ANTON, born in Vienna in 1842. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Steinfeld and Albert Zimmermann; made a study trip to the Bavarian Alps in 1863, then went to Worms, whence he visited the banks of the Rhine and the Odenwald. Works: From Environs of Vienna (1859); View near Gastein (1860); Mountain Landscape (1861); View near Salzburg (1862); Morning on Hintersee (1863); View of Worms from Meerstädt Height; Lindenfels in the Odenwald; Departure of Burgrave of Rodenstein from Burg Schnellerts; Morning in Rhenish Palatinate, Vienna Museum; Königsee (1869); The Imperial City on the Danube (1884).—Allgem. K. Ch., ix. 147; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 269, 495.


HOBBEMA, MEYNDERT (Minderhout), born at Koeverden or at Amsterdam (?) in 1638, died at Amsterdam, buried Dec. 14, 1709. Dutch school; landscape painter, formed himself under the influence of Jacob van Ruisdael. Much neglected in his life-time, and little esteemed, this painter now takes rank as one of the greatest masters of landscape art, thanks to the initiative of England, where nine-tenths of his works are to be found. With less inventive genius and less poetic feeling than Ruisdael, Hobbema surpassed him in truth to atmospheric effect, in tone, and in brilliancy of colour. These qualities give a magical beauty to the generally prosaic scenes which he habitually treated. Some of his landscapes are enlivened with figures by Pieter Bouts, Adrian van der Velde, Berghem, Lingelbach, Storck, Helt-Stokade, B. Gael, and Helmbreker. Works: Showery Weather, Avenue at Middelharnis, Ruins of Brederode Castle (1667), Village with Water-Mills, Forest Scene, Woody Landscape, Castle in Rocky Landscape, National Gallery, London; landscapes in Buckingham Palace (3), Bridgewater (3), Dulwich (2), and Grosvenor (2) Galleries, Hertford House, Baring, Dudley, Wynn Ellis, Holford, Lord Overstone's Collections, ib.; Glasgow Gallery (5); National Gallery, Edinburgh (2); Louvre, Paris; Museums of Bordeaux, Antwerp, Brussels (1663), Amsterdam (3), Rotterdam (2), Berlin, Darmstadt (1649), Dresden (2), Gotha, Königsberg, Leipsic (?), Stuttgart (2), Vienna, New York; Städel Gallery, Frankfort (2); Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Old Pinakothek, Munich; Hermitage, St. Petersburg (1663); Historical Society, New York (2).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 516; Dohme, 1ii; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iv. 28; (1864), xvi. 214; Immerzeel, ii. 41; Kramm, iii. 693; vii. 77; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 475; Richter, 76.



HODGSON, JOHN EVAN, born in London, March 1, 1831. Subject painter, student in 1855 of the Royal Academy, where he first exhibited in 1856. Painted at first domestic subjects, then historical pictures from 1861 to 1865; and, after a visit to North Africa, subjects of Moorish life, to which he has since mostly confined his efforts. Became an A.R.A. in 1873 and R.A.