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Homo (1836), St. Andrew's, Düsseldorf; Job and his Friends (1838), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Consider the Lilies (1839); Melusina, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Felicitas and Sleep (1841), Breslau Museum; Emperor Frederic III. (1842), Emperor's Hall, Frankfort; St. George, Christ Enthroned (1843); Resurrection (1844); Annunciation (1845); Christ with Chalice and Bread (1846); Jew's Head (1834), Golden Age (1848), Lansquenet (1848), Portrait of Actor Porth (1853), Dispute between Luther and Eck (1863-66), Dresden Gallery; Memorial to Gontard, Samuel and Eli, Magdalen (1849); The Angel of the Lord showing the Evangelist Babylon's great Whore (1850); Stephanus before the Council; Charles V. at St. Yuste; Frederic the Great at Sans-Souci; Cupid in Winter; Magdalen beside Body of Christ (1864); Christ in the Temple; Hagar and Ishmael; Portraits of Princess Margaret of Saxony, of Dr. Carus, Count and Countess Kanitz, Prince Hatzfeld, Gottfried Schadow; J. von Keller (1860), Düsseldorf Gallery.—Brockhaus, ix. 427; Illustr. Zeitg. (1882), ii. 474; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 242, 415; Müller, 269; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 22; Reber-Pecht, ii. 114; Wiegmann, 112.


HUCHTENBURG. See Hughtenburgh.


HUDSON, THOMAS, born in Devonshire in 1701, died at Twickenham, Jan. 26, 1779. Pupil of Jonathan Richardson; succeeded Jervas as the fashionable portrait painter of the day, though he was soon eclipsed by his pupil, Reynolds. He generally painted only the head, leaving the accessories to his assistant, Van Haaken, of Antwerp. Works: Portraits of Handel, Lord Chief Justice Willes, National Portrait Gallery; Charles Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim; Mary Coke, Bute Collection.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 85, 194.


HUDSON RIVER, DISCOVERY OF, Albert Bierstadt, House of Representatives, Capitol, Washington; in panel near south doors. Companion-piece to Settlement of California. The artist received $20,000 for these two pictures.


HUE, JEAN FRANÇOIS, born at Saint-Arnould-en-Yvelines (Seine-et-Oise), Dec. 1, 1751, died in Paris, Dec. 24, 1823. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Joseph Vernet. A famous painter in his day. Employed by the government to paint the seven French seaports wanting to complete the series of fifteen begun by Vernet. Member of Academy, 1782. Works: Taking of Isle of Granada in 1779 (1787), Naval Battle near Isle of Granada (1788), Napoleon visiting Camp of Boulogne (1806), Versailles Museum; French Seaports (7); Port d'Orient at Sunset (1801), Cherbourg Museum; Combat of the Ship Le Formidable (1808), Angers Museum; Cascade under Rocks, Nantes Museum; Port of Genoa (1810); Shipwreck of the Virginia (1812); Echo bewailing Narcissus (1814); Port and Tower of Terracina, View in Bois de Satory at Versailles (1819); Landscape with Belisarius and his Guide (1822); Coast with Agitated Sea, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Bellier, i. 785.



HUET, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Paris, Oct. 15, 1745, died there, Aug. 27, 1811. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Dagommier, Boucher, and Leprince. His paintings of animals are of great merit. Member of the Academy in 1769. Works: Dog Attacking Geese, Caravan, Fox in Chicken-Yard (1769); Wolf pierced with Lance,