his drawing correct and his colouring more harmonious. Works: Sow defending her Young, Rotterdam Museum; Christ as Gardener (1662), Oldenburg Gallery; Nocturnal Carnival Scene in Rome (1660), Dogs starting Swan (1670), do. chasing Water-Fowl (2), Bear-hunts (2), Schwerin Gallery; Boar-hunt (1661), Dresden Museum; Wounded Heron pursued by Dogs, Avignon Museum; Starting for the Chase, Uffizi, Florence; Wild Boar attacked by Dogs, Bear do., Rotterdam Museum; Swan attacked by Dogs, Glasgow Gallery; Party of Ladies and Officers (1668), Guard-House, Bear-Hunt, Stag-Hunt, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Boar-Hunt, New York Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 69; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 455; Burger, ii. 313; Immerzeel, ii. 48.
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HÖNINGHAUS, ADOLF, born at Crefeld, Rhenish Prussia, in 1811. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer; went in 1843 to Italy, where he studied from nature four years; removed to Dresden in 1853. Works: View of Terracina (1851), Düsseldorf Gallery; St. Peter's and the Vatican (1852), Cologne Museum.—Müller, 265.
HONORIUS, Jean Paul Laurens, D. O.
Mills, New York; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 4 ft.
The Emperor Honorius, son of Theodosius
the Great, who became Emperor of the West
on the death of his father, A.D. 395. Represented
crowned, in a purple robe, seated
upon a throne, with the sword of state in
his right hand, and his left hand resting on
the globe crested with Victory. Salon, 1880.—Art
Treas. of Amer., ii. 110.
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HONTHORST, GERARD VAN, born at
Utrecht, Nov. 4, 1590, died there, April 27,
1656. Dutch school; history, genre, and
portrait painter, pupil of Abraham Bloemart,
but spent several years in Rome,
where he studied the pictures of Caravaggio,
and found a patron in the Marchese Giustiniani.
As he painted many night scenes
lighted by torches or candles, he was surnamed
Gherardo dalle Notti. After his return
he worked
(1619-20) at the
court of King
Frederic in
Prague, later for
Charles I. in
England, where
in 1628 he executed
portraits
and historical
paintings for the
Banqueting Hall, Whitehall. He was free
of the Utrecht guild in 1623, and at The
Hague in 1637. In 1645-50 he worked
chiefly for the princes of Orange, but also
painted a series of pictures from Danish
history for the King of Denmark, and in
his later years a number of portraits for
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg.
His early pictures are preferable to those
painted after his journey to Italy (1612-15),
where he imitated Caravaggio and
Correggio in his night pieces, Rubens in
his historical paintings, and Mierevelt in
his portraits. He worked very rapidly. His
numerous works are markedly realistic, show
skilful arrangement, good drawing, and powerful
chiaroscuro, but they are deficient in
elevation. Works: Lute-Player (1614), Concert
(1624), Pilate washing his Hands, Young
Shepherd, Triumph of Silenus, Man tuning
Mandoline, two portraits, Louvre; St. Mary
Magdalen, Bordeaux Museum; Soldier sleeping
on a Drum, Aremberg Gallery, Brussels;
Portrait of Stadhouder Willem II., Portraits
of two young Princesses (1653), do. of Frederic
William I. Elector of Brandenburg and
Louise Henriette of Nassau, do. of Prince
Frederik Hendrik and Wife, Nude Child
plucking Pears, Hague Museum; Merry
Musician, Portrait of Princess Amalia van
Solms (1650), do. of Prince Frederik Hendrik,
do. of Prince Willem II (2), Museum,
Amsterdam; Maria de' Medici (1638), New
Town Hall, ib.; Tête-à-tête, Soldier—Male
Portrait (1647), Rotterdam Museum; Singer,