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Nuremberg, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Vienna (2), Weimar; Galleries at Carlsruhe (3, one dated 1714), Copenhagen, Hamburg (2, one dated 1706), Munich (3, one dated 1735), Oldenburg, Schwerin (5, three dated 1728, 1742, 1743), Hermitage, St. Petersburg (4, two dated 1722, 1723).—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Gool, ii. 13; Immerzeel, ii. 70; Kramm, iii. 780; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 546.


HUYSUM, JUSTUS VAN, born in Amsterdam, June 8, 1659, died there in April, 1716. Dutch school; landscape and genre painter, pupil of Berchem. Besides landscapes with animals after the manner of Berchem, he painted portraits, hunts, cavalry skirmishes, and coast-views with great technical skill. Pictures sketchy but effective. He was only inferior to his son Jan as a flower and fruit painter. Works: Bouquet, Antwerp Museum; Landscapes with Animals, Hague Museum; Battle with Cavalry Skirmish in foreground, Brunswick Museum; Flower and Fruit-pieces (5), Landscape, Schwerin Gallery.—Immerzeel, ii. 70; Nagler, Mon., iv. 179; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 428; Schlie, 292.


HYACINTH, ST., VISION OF, Lodovico Carracci, Louvre; canvas, H. 12 ft. 2 in. × 7 ft. 3 in. St. Hyacinth at prayer before a marble tablet sustained by an angel, in a temple adorned with columns; above, the Virgin and Child upon clouds, accompanied by a choir of angels and cherubim. Painted in 1594 for chapel of Turrini family in S. Domenico, Bologna. Lodovico modelled the composition in clay, and the casts from it long served as studies in the schools of Bologna. Engraved by Agostino Carracci.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Landon, Musée, ii. Pl. 39.


HYRE, LAURENT DE LA. See Hire.



IAIA (Laia, or Lala), portrait painter, from Cyzicus on the Propontis, lived in Rome about beginning of 1st century, B.C. Her female portraits, painted both with the pencil and with the cestrum on ivory, commanded higher prices than those of Sopolis and Dionysius, the most renowned portrait painters of the time. She painted her own portrait by the aid of a mirror.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [147].


IBBETSON, JULIUS CÆSAR, born at Masham, Yorkshire, Dec. 29, 1759, died there, Oct. 13, 1817. Landscape, marine, animal, and figure painter, mostly self-taught; went to London about 1778, first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1785, and after having accompanied, as a draftsman, Colonel Cathcart's embassy to China in 1788, was for many years a large contributor to its exhibitions; returned to his native place in 1801. Benjamin West called him the Berchem of England. Works: Tigers in a Jungle, Jack in his Glory, Landscape with Rustic Bridge, The Mermaid's Haunt, Sailor's Return Home, View in Isle of Wight, South Kensington Museum, London.—Redgrave, 232.


IDYL, Jean Jacques Henner, Luxembourg Museum, Paris; canvas, H. 2 ft. 5 in. × 2 ft. Nude figures. A young girl, seated beside a fountain shaded by trees, playing a reed pipe, and a second one standing, intently listening. Salon, 1872.


IGNATIUS, ST., MIRACLES OF, Rubens, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 17 ft. × 12 ft. 6 in. St. Ignatius Loyola, standing on the steps of the altar in a magnificent temple, healing the sick and the possessed, who are grouped around him; above, angels hovering, and in background, demons escaping. Painted for Jesuits' Church, Antwerp; bought in 1774 by Empress Maria