first under Klieber, then under Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld; travelled (1846) in Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium, and went in 1856 for three years to Munich. His landscapes show deep feeling for nature and poetical sentiment, delicate treatment and good drawing, but somewhat dull and hard colouring. Member of the Vienna and Venice Academies. Works: Quiet Wood-Nook, Emperor of Austria; Stag-Hunt; In the Wiener Wald; View in the Ramsau; In the Beech-Grove; View in Carpathian Mountains (2) (1854); Wood Landscape (1859); Landscape with Oaks, Vienna Museum.—Kunst-Chronik, xi. 833; Wurzbach, ix. 250.
HOLZHAB, ADOLF, born in Zürich in
1835. Architecture and landscape painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Gude
and Pulian; travelled through the Rhine
countries, Southern Germany, Belgium,
Holland, France, and Italy. Works: View
near Tangermünde, Säg Alp on Reichenbach,
Mediæval Town on North Sea, Zürich Gallery;
Costumes in Switzerland; Ruin of
Convent in Black Forest; Town of Leuk
and the Gemmi; The Wetterhorn.—Müller,
265.
HOMER, APOTHEOSIS OF, Dominique
Ingres, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 12 ft. 8
in. × 16 ft. 10 in.; signed, dated 1827. Homer,
seated, with figures representing the
Iliad and the Odyssey at his feet, is crowned
by Fame, and receives the homage of all the
great men of Greece, of Rome, and of modern
times. Painted for a ceiling of the Musée
Charles X., Louvre, but replaced now
by a copy. Paris Exposition, 1855; afterwards
in Luxembourg. Engraved by A.
Martinet. Original sketch also in Louvre.—Villot,
Cat. Louvre; Ch. Blanc, Life, 91;
Larousse, i. 497.
HOMER AND THE GREEKS, Wilhelm
von Kaulbach, New Museum, Berlin; mural
painting, staircase hall. Homer, in a boat
steered by the Cumæan Sibyl, approaches
the shores of Greece while Thetis and the
Nereids rise from the sea to listen to his
song; on the shore are gathered the great
men of Greece—Orpheus in the centre,
then Hesiod, Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,
Aristophanes, and Pindar; Phidias,
and other sculptors and painters; the
prophet Bacis, and Solon, Pericles, and Alcibiades,
while from forest and field the
people approach to partake of the new culture.
HOMER AND HIS GUIDE, Adolphe
Bouguereau, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New
York; canvas. The blind bard, led by
a boyish guide, is attacked by dogs set
on by rude Ionian shepherds; in the
background, the curs rush on in full
cry, but one, in the foreground, which
has reached the poet, has come under his
influence, and fawns upon him in submission.
Salon, 1874.—Art Treas. of Amer.,
i. 44.
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HOMER, WINSLOW, born in Boston,
Mass., Feb. 24, 1836.
Genre painter, pupil
of the National Academy
and of F. Rondel.
During the civil war
sketched for Harper's
and other periodicals,
and also painted works
in oil and water-colours.
Elected an A.N.A.
in 1864, and N.A. in 1865. Member of Society
of Painters in Water Colours. Has visited
Europe, and in 1884-5 made a sketching
tour in the West Indies. Studio in New
York. Works in oil: Prisoners from the
Front; Cotton Pickers; Home, Sweet Home;
Zouaves Pitching Quoits; Bright Side; As
You Like It; Milking-Time; In the Field;
Snap the Whip (1876); Rab and the Girls,
Breezing Up, Charles Stewart Smith, New
York; Sundown, Upland Cotton (1879);
Visit from the Old Mistress, Sunday Morning
(1880); Coming Away of the Gale
(1883); Uncle Ned's Happy Family, Life-Line
(1884). Water-colours: Fly-Fishing;
Gardener's Daughter; After the Bath; In
the Garden; Manchester Coast; Launching
