28, 1878. History and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy. Returned in 1828 to his native town, painted altarpieces, and in 1832 went to Munich, where he soon acquired reputation as a portrait painter. After 1835, when he had moved to Augsburg, he devoted himself exclusively to religious subjects, and executed many altarpieces; after 1839, decorated several churches in fresco; returned to Bregenz in 1876. Works: Portrait of Dillis (1832), New Pinakothek, Munich; Portrait of Eigner (1835), Augsburg Gallery; Portrait of Bishop Albert Rieg; Christ on Mount of Olives; St. Peter on the Waters.—Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 576.
HUNIN, (PIERRE PAUL) ALOUIS, born
at Mechlin, Dec. 7, 1808, died there, Feb.
27, 1855. Genre painter, son of, and first
instructed by, the engraver Mathieu Hunin,
then pupil of Braekeleer, and in Paris of
Ingres and Cogniet. Medals: Brussels,
1839, 1845; The Hague, 1841; Order of
Leopold. Works: Girl praying for her
Mother (1834); Young Draughtsman (1836);
Paternal Lesson, Marriage Ceremony (1839);
Mother's Anxiety (1840); Return of Wounded
Soldier (1841); Return from Baptism
(1842); Father's Last Advice (1843); Opening
of the Will (1845), Berlin Museum;
Maria Theresa visiting Poor Family; Distribution
of Alms.—Immerzeel, ii. 67;
Kramm, iii. 771.
HUNS, BATTLE OF THE, Wilhelm von
Kaulbach, New Museum, Berlin; mural
painting, staircase hall. In the background,
Rome; before it a field strewn with dead
bodies gradually awakening, rising, and rallying;
among them wailing women. At the
heads of the two ghostly hosts are Attila,
carried on a shield by the Huns, and wielding
a scourge, and Theodoric with his two
sons, behind whom is raised the banner of
the Cross.
HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM, born in
Liverpool in 1831. Landscape painter, pupil
of his father, a drawing teacher of Liverpool;
is a graduate and a fellow of Corpus
Christi College, Oxford. First picture to
bring him into notice was Stream from Llyn
Idwal, Caernarvonshire, exhibited at Royal
Academy in 1856. Paints in both oil and
water-colours. Among the former are: Debatable
Ground (1862); Morning Mist on
Loch Maree (1870); Goring Lock on the
Thames (1871); From Moor to Mount
(1874); Summer Days for Me! (1876); On
the Coast of Yorkshire (1877); Norwegian
Midnight, Leafy June (1879); Safe in the
Mud, Golden Night (1881); Sonning—Mid-*day
(1882); North Country Stream (1883).
HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY, born in
London, March 28, 1790, died there, Feb.
10, 1864. Landscape, still-life, and genre
painter in water-colours; pupil of John
Varley and of the Royal Academy, where he
exhibited, in 1807, Scene near Hounslow,
and View near Reading; became, in 1827,
a member of the Society of Painters in
Water Colours. Among his best works are:
The Laboratory, The Attack, The Defeat,
The Orphans, The Itinerant, Mulatto Girl,
Ballad-Singer, Study of Gold—A Smoked
Pilchard, Study of Rose Grey—A Mushroom
(1860); Dead Humming-Bird (1864); Still
Life, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Ottley;
Ruskin, Notes on S. Prout and Wm. Hunt
(London, 1879).
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HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN, born in
London, April, 1827.
Pupil of John Varley,
and in 1845 of the
Royal Academy,
where he exhibited
his first picture, Hark!
in 1846. In 1849 he
took his stand with
Millais and others of
the so-called Pre-Raphaelites,
and has
since been one of the most earnest apostles
of that school of painting. In 1854-55 he
visited Egypt and Syria, and has since spent
much time in the East, especially in Jerusalem,
where several of his pictures were
painted. Works: Little Nell and her Grand-
