Burgundian Library, Brussels; Roman Missal (1582-90), Imperial Library, Vienna. His son Jacobus, born at Frankfort in 1575, became court-painter to the Emperor Rudolph in 1607. In the museum at Valencia there is a fine water-colour drawing by him: Samson slaying the Philistines (1600).—Fétis, Les artistes belges à l'étranger, i. 85; Michiels, vi. 239; Nagler, Mon., iii. 564.
HOEGG, JOSEF, born in Coblentz in
1826. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy, paints chiefly mournful subjects.
Works: Farewell of Emigrant Wine-Growers
(1846); At Mother's Coffin (1847); Boy
reading Letter (1848); Blind Grandmother,
Return from Cemetery (1849); Grandfather
and Grandchildren (1850); Blind Man
(1852).—Wiegmann, 327.
HOERBERG, PEHR, born at Oefra-Oe,
Småland, Jan. 31, 1746, died at Oelstorp,
East Gothland, Jan. 24, 1816. History
painter, self-taught peasant. While serving
as a shepherd (1783) he frequented the Stockholm
Academy, and obtained two prizes.
Made member of the Academy and court-painter
in 1797, and received a pension
from Charles XIV. in 1812. Over six hundred
paintings by him are known, among
which are eighty-seven altarpieces. His
best fresco paintings are the Combats of
Titans at Castle Finspång. He was an accomplished
musician, and invented a new
kind of violin; his musical compositions are
original and full of sentiment.—Pehr Hoerberg's
Lebens beschreibung (Greifswald,
1819).
HOERTER, AUGUST, born in Germany;
contemporary. Landscape painter in Carlsruhe,
pupil of Lessing; draws his subjects
mostly from the high mountains of Germany
and Switzerland. Works: Courtyard of
Magdeburg; View of Reichenbach Falls;
Landscape about the Hohentviel; Oak Landscape;
Wood Brook; Approaching Storm
with Mediæval Horsemen; Rosegg Glacier;
Landscape in the Höhgau (1868).—Müller,
267.
HOET (Hoedt), GERARD, born at Bommel,
Aug. 22, 1648, died at The Hague,
Dec. 2, 1733. Dutch school; history painter,
son and pupil of the glass painter Moses
Hoet, then pupil of Warnard van Rysen and
of Poelenburg; went to The Hague in 1672,
travelled in Holland and France, and settled
in Utrecht, where, with H. Schook, he founded
a school of painting; returned to The
Hague when sixty, and there painted in a
hall the Seven Christian Virtues. Works:
Landscapes with Figures (2), Marriage of
Alexander and Roxana, Homage to Alexander,
Family Scene, Amsterdam Museum;
Pyramus and Thisbe, Rotterdam Museum;
Queen of Sheba before Solomon, Pyramus
and Thisbe, Cassel Gallery; Death of Dido,
Alcestis at Death-bed of Admetus, Copenhagen
Gallery; Woman and Children by
Ruined Wall (1667), Dresden Museum;
Samson and Delilah, Solomon's Idolatry,
Leipsic Museum; Æneas and Dido, Antony
and Cleopatra, Ulysses recognizing
Achilles, The Wooers Feasting, Male Portrait,
Schleissheim Gallery; Moses striking
the Rock, Vienna
Museum;
Callisto's Guilt,
Glasgow Gallery; Adoration of the Magi,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel, ii.
44; Kramm, iii. 705.
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HOFF, JAKOB, born in Frankfort in 1838. Genre painter, pupil at Frankfort of the sculptor Zwerger, then at the Städel Institute of Jakob Becker, spent two years in Belgium and Holland, and subsequently visited Hungary and North Italy. Works: Kirmess Dance (1861); Under the Linden; Repose at the Chase.—Müller, 261.
HOFF, KARL, born in Mannheim, Sept.
8, 1838. Genre and landscape painter, pupil
of Carlsruhe Art School under Schirmer
and Des Coudres, and of Düsseldorf Academy
under Vautier; visited Paris in 1862,
settled in Düsseldorf, whence he made journeys
through Germany, France, Italy, and
Greece, and in 1878 went to Carlsruhe as
professor at the art-school. Medals in Berlin
(1872), Vienna (1873); honorary mem-
