- scape with Figures, Angers Museum.—Bellier,
i. 779; Larousse.
HOUZÉ, FLORENTIN, born at Tournay
in 1812. History and genre painter, pupil
at Liége of Hennequin, and of Antwerp
Academy under Nicaise de Keyser, then
studied in Paris, and returned to Tournay
in 1844; received a medal in 1842; lives in
Brussels. He paints also good portraits.
Works: Last Moments of Lord Percy (1839);
Entering the Convent (1846); St. Vincent
de Paula and the Inundated; St. Charles
Borromeo with People infected by the
Plague, St. Augustine healing a Sick Man;
Cardinal's Visit to Hospital, Tournay Museum;
Crucifixion; Return from Masked
Ball; Italian Beggars.—Journal des. B. Arts
(1860), 143; Müller, 267.
HOVE, BARTHOLOMEUS JOHANNES
VAN, born at The Hague, Oct. 28, 1790,
died in 1880. Painter of city views and
church interiors, pupil of Breckenheimer;
medal, 1842. Member of Amsterdam Academy
and several others; won great reputation
and several medals from art associations,
and received costly presents from
several potentates. Subsequently was theatre
painter at The Hague. Professor at
Hague Academy. Order of Oaken Crown,
1847. Works: View of Musée Royal at The
Hague, City Views (2), Amsterdam Museum;
Dutch City by Moonlight, Ghent Museum;
do., Rotterdam Museum; City on a River,
Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Immerzeel, ii. 59;
Kramm, iii. 760; vii. 86.
HOVE, HUBERTUS VAN, born at The
Hague in 1814, died at Antwerp in 1865.
Architecture and landscape painter, son and
pupil of preceding, and pupil of Hendrik van
de Sande Backhuyzen; settled at Antwerp.
Gold medal, 1852; Order of Leopold, 1857.
Painted afterwards also good kitchen-pieces.
Works: View on Sea-Shore, Rotterdam Museum;
Fishing Expedition, Museum Fodor,
Amsterdam; Interior, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Chamber in City Hall at Amsterdam
(1837), Leipsic Museum; Vestibule, New
Pinakothek, Munich; Kitchen Interior, Historical
Society, New York.—Immerzeel, ii.
60; Kramm, iii. 760.
HOVE, VICTOR VAN, born at Renaix,
East Flanders, in 1825. Genre painter, was
at first a sculptor. His affecting scenes
from popular life are painted in a pleasing
manner. Order of Leopold, medals in
Paris (1863) and Vienna (1873). Works:
Orphans going to Church (1863); Protestant
Girl's Sunday (1864); On Way to School
(1865); Fisherman's Return on Coast of
Flanders; The Present; Sunday Morning
in Holland (1869).—Jour. des B. Arts (1860),
158; Müller, 268.
HÖVEMEYER, AUGUST, born at Bückeburg,
Oldenburg, Sept. 23, 1824, died in
Munich, Jan. 13, 1878. History painter,
pupil of the Munich Academy under Kaulbach
and Schwind, but formed himself
chiefly after the works of Genelli, and was
one of the last representatives of the school
of Cornelius. In 1856-58 he was employed
upon extensive fresco paintings in Würzburg,
Berne, and Leipsic. In 1864-65 visited
Italy, where he copied Raphael's School
of Athens, and Titian's Venus; worked in
1867-69 in Stuttgart and Munich, and executed
in 1872-74 ten large compositions in
oil and fresco for the Railroad Directors'
building in Ludwigshafen. Works: Allegorical
Figures (1851), Royal Villa, Berchtesgaden;
Expulsion from Paradise (1854);
Christmas Night, Start for the Alp (1855).
Frescos: Allegories in the Railway Station
at Würzburg (1856); in the Federal Palace,
Berne (1856-57); Eight compositions from
Cupid and Psyche (1858), Leipsic Museum;
The Flood, 1860 (cartoon); Three historical
pictures (1863), National Museum, Munich;
Prometheus (1866), in America; six ceiling
paintings in oil, and four Allegories in
fresco (1872-74), Ludwigshafen.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xiii. 215; Jour. des. B. Arts, Jan.
15, 1863; Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 302; Meyer,
Conv. Lex., xvii. 454.
HOVENDEN, THOMAS, born at Dunmanway,
Ireland, in 1840. Genre painter,
pupil of the School of Design, Cork, and of
