of a Boat, Wrecking of a Vessel (1884).—Sheldon, 25.
HOMME AU GANT (Man with a
Glove), Titian, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4
in. × 2 ft. 11 in.; signed. A young man,
dressed in black, holding a glove in left
hand. A noble portrait of Titian's middle
period. Copy in Brunswick Gallery. Belonged
to Louis XIV.—C. & C., Titian, ii.
421.
HONDECOETER, GILLIS D', born at
Antwerp, died at Amsterdam (?) after 1637.
Flemish school; landscape and bird painter,
pupil at Utrecht of Roelant Savery, and
at Amsterdam of David Vinckeboons; a
descendant of the Brabantine Marquises of
Westerloo. At first painted portraits; removed
to Amsterdam, where he lived already
in 1615, and contracted a second
marriage in 1628. Works: Mountainous
Landscape, Berlin Museum; do. (1609),
Schleissheim Gallery; Bird Concert, Cassel
Gallery; do. (1620), Fürstenberg Gallery,
Donaueschingen; Dead Birds (1655?
attributed), Rotterdam Museum.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xiii. 67; Kramm, iii. 717; Meyer,
Gem. köngl. Mus., 209.
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HONDECOETER, MELCHIOR D', born
in Utrecht in 1636,
died in Amsterdam,
April 3, 1695.
Dutch school; animal
painter, son
and pupil of Gysbert
H., and of his
uncle, Jan Baptista
Weenix. Painted
birds with singular
truthfulness, and
had a poetic feeling for their varied habits.
In 1659-63 member of Hague guild; in
1688 took the freedom of Amsterdam.
Works: Birds in a Park, White Turkey,
Peacock and Turkey, Louvre; Crow stripped
of Borrowed Feathers (1671), Menagerie
of Prince William III. at Loo, two others,
Hague Museum; Floating Feather, Hen
defending Chickens, Parrots and Other
Birds, Dead Birds, Birds and Hare, four
others, Amsterdam Museum; Peacock and
Poultry in a Park (1672), Cock Crowing,
Still Life, Brussels Museum; Foreign Water-Fowl,
Berlin Museum; Noah's Ark, Vessel
with Fish (1661), Brunswick Museum; Poultry
Yard (1668), Cock-Fight, do. (1686),
Carlsruhe Gallery; White Peacock and other
Fancy Birds, Cock-Fights (2), Cassel Gallery;
Chickens, do. and Cock defying Bird
of Prey, Bird Concert, Dead Game-Birds by
a Gun, Dresden Museum; Domestic Poultry,
Städel Gallery, Frankfort; do., Cologne,
Gotha (3), Hanover, Leipsic, Stuttgart (3),
Vienna (2) Museums, Palazzo Pitti, Florence,
Venice Academy, Copenhagen and
Oldenburg Galleries, National Gallery, London
(2), Liverpool Institution, Leuchtenberg
Gallery, St. Petersburg; Cock-Fight, Cock
and Hen defending Chickens against Turkey,
Barn Yard, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Water-Fowls
(2), Dead Game and Hunting Implements
(2), Bird Park, Schleissheim Gallery;
Cock-Fight (1668), Hen Family, Turkish
Ducks, Dead Poultry (1678), Poultry Yard
(1681), Schwerin Gallery; Poultry Yard,
Pelican, Cassowary, etc., Dead Game, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xiii. 67; Burger, i. 161, 280; Immerzeel, ii.
47; Kramm, iii. 717; Kugler (Crowe), ii.
457; De Stuers, 50.
HONDIUS, ABRAHAM, born in Rotterdam
in 1638, died in London in 1695.
Dutch school; animal and genre painter;
went early to London, where he painted
bear and boar hunts, conflagrations, and
nocturnal gatherings by torchlight. The
truthfulness, boldness, and vigour of this
master would give him a high place were
