her two grandchildren in the background. Salon, 1785. Sketch, with changes, in Louvre. Engraved by Morel.—Landon, Musée, vii. Pl. 61.
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Oath of the Horatii, Louis David, Louvre, Paris.
HORCICKA, FRANZ, born in Prague,
June 29, 1776, died there, April 5, 1856.
History and portrait painter, pupil from
1786 of Ludwig Kohl, and from 1800 of
Bergler in the Academy. At Prague he
was the first portrait painter of the day until
Jacob Ginzel supplanted him in 1822.
Invented a valuable way of restoring pictures,
and in 1811 started the first public art
exhibition in Prague.
Works: St. Wenceslaus destroying
the Idol Swantovit;
St. Albert blessing
the Country, St. George
and the Dragon; Holy
Trinity; Portraits of Ignatius
Cornova, of the
Mathematician Gerstner,
of Abbé Dobrowsky, of the
Philosopher Bolzano, the
Historian Pelzel, the Physiologist
Purkyne.—Allgem.
deutsche Biogr., xiii.
125.
HOREBOUT (Hoorenbout,
Horebault, Hornebold),
GERARD, born in
Ghent(?) about 1480, died
in London in 1540. Flemish
school; history painter, supposed pupil
of Memling, and one of the great masters
of the old Flemish school, excelling especially
as a painter of miniatures, of which
the famous breviary of Charles V. may be
taken as an example. He was in Ghent in
1510-11, worked for the Princess Margaret
of Austria in 1516-21, and Albrecht Dürer
knew him in the latter year at Antwerp.
Having afterwards gone to England, he was
appointed painter to Henry VIII. Works:
Double Diptych (attributed to Memling),
Antwerp Museum; Madonna Enthroned(?),
Darmstadt Museum; Madonna, Christ taking
Leave of his Mother, Prayer Book with
Miniatures, National Museum, Munich;
Hortulus Animæ, and several Codices, Imperial
Library, Vienna; Psalter and Officium
in three Folio Volumes, Vatican, Rome.—Immerzeel,
ii. 55; Kramm, iii. 747; Michiels,
vi., 406; Nagler, Mon., ii. 37.
HOREMANS, JAN JOZEF, the elder,
born at Antwerp, baptized Nov. 16, 1682,
died there, Aug. 7, 1759. Flemish school;
genre painter, first instructed by the sculptor
Michiel van der Voort, then pupil of
Jan van Pee; master of the guild in 1706.
His pictures were skilfully composed, but
heavy and untruthful in colouring. Works:
Admission of an Abbot into Fencing Company,
Antwerp Museum; Musical Company
(1715), Brunswick Museum; Company
around Table, Lady making Dog Dance,
Dutch Peasant Room, Company of Peasants,
Interior of Gardener's Dwelling, Cassel Gallery;
Peasants' Frolic in a Tavern, Brawl in
a Tavern, Darmstadt Museum; Tavern
Scenes (2), Copy after Hogarth's Harlot's;
Progress, Historical Society, New York;
Shoemaker in his Shop, Mother by a Cradle
Sewing, Dresden Museum; Peasant Family
at Table (2), Hanover Gallery; Village
School, Shoemaker's Shop (1712), Vienna
