rivers, especially views of the Rhine, in the style of Sachtleven; and he adorned his landscapes with figures, well designed, and neatly pencilled. In his larger pictures he was not so happy as in those of a small size, like his master; which occasioned the latter to be abundantly more esteemed, as they were touched with spirit, and without dryness.-Houb., Pilk. H AANSBERGEN (John Van), | after Kneller; Maria Louisa of Or after his own design; John Milton; John Dun, called Scotus: Old Parr, 1715.-Strutt. HACKAERT (John), a Dutch landscape painter, born at Amsterdam about 1635. The scenes which this artist chose for his subjects were broken grounds, with caverns, and grottos, and mountainous views, which he designed after nature and to furnish himself with such ob jects as had an agreeable wildness, he travelled through the most romantic scenes of Germany and Switzerland, and sketched every thing that pleased his particular taste, or that could be introduced into his future compositions. at Utrecht in 1642, and died in 1705, Maimbourg, a celebrated Jesuit, aged 63. He was a disciple of Cornelius Poelemburg, whose manner he adopted. He proved the best copyist of his master; showed the same taste of landscape, figures, back-grounds, and ornaments; and his works were frequently taken by good judges for those of Poelemburg. However, his productions were not held in the same esteem; for although there appeared a strong resemblance in their compositions, yet he was accounted inferior to his master in correctness of drawing, in the delicacy of his figures, and in the neatness of his touch. And for that reason, he was advised by his friends to undertake portrait painting, for which he appeared to be extremely well qualified; and therefore he applied himself entirely to that branch, and his success was answerable to the most sanguine expectations. His designs were taken from true as well as fabulous histories, and he always finished them with neatness and care.-Houb., | Pilk. Pilk. HABERT (Nicholas), a French engraver, born at Paris about the year 1650. He was much employed for the booksellers, and engraved several portraits of literary characters, and other celebrated persons, in a neat style.—Among others, he engraved the following:-James II. Hackaert was not very expert at designing figures, and therefore, on his return to Holland, he associated with Adrian Vandervelde, who generally painted the figures for him; and by that means the pictures of this master acquired a considerable addition to their value.-Houb., HACKERT (James Philip), a Prussian painter and engraver, born at Prentzlaw about 1734. He was the son of a portrait painter, who sent him to Berlin, where he studied landscape painting under N. B. Le Sueur. He afterwards travelled to Sweden, and made several drawings of views in that country, which he has etched. In 1766 he went to Italy, and resided some years at Rome, where he painted views of the environs of that city, which were much admired, and he met with great encouragement. The king of Naples invited him to his court, appointed him his principal painter, with a liberal pension; and he remained in his service many years.— Hackert has etched a variety of plates from his own designs, which are executed with great fire and spirit.-Strutt. HACKERT (George). He was the younger brother and pupil of the preceding artist, born at Prentzlaw in 1744. In 1786 he established himself at Naples as a printseller and engraver. He has engraved several plates of landscapes and views, chiefly from the designs of James Philip Hackert.-Ibid. HAELWEGH (A.), a Flemish engraver, born about the year 1670. He was employed chiefly by the booksellers, for whom he engraved several portraits and frontispieces. He resided some time at Copenhagen, where he engraved some portraits of distinguished Danish personages.Strutt. HAERLEM (Theodore), a Dutch historical painter, born at Haerlem in 1410, and died in 1470, aged 60. He was a painter of great merit for the time in which he flourished, of which he has left a competent proof in a picture of his painting at Utrecht. It is less hard and dry than most of the works of his contemporary artists, and very highly laboured in the finishing. The picture is an altar-piece, with two folding-doors, as was customary at that time on the inside appears the representation of Christ, and on the doors the figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, as large as life.-Houb., Pilk. HAFTEN (Nicholas Van), a Dutch engraver who flourished about the year 1700. He etched and engraved in mezzotinto. There are several plates by him of ludicrous subjects, very indifferently executed; among which is a Dutch Burgomaster toying with his kitchen-maid.— Strutt. HAGEN (John Van), a Flemish painter, who flourished about 1660. The works of this master principally consist of views and scenes which he sketched after nature, in the neighbourhood of Cleves and Nimeguen. His manner was pleasing, and his colour natural; but there is one circumstance which lessens the value of the works of this master exceedingly, and that is the fading of the blues and greens of his pictures, by some defects in the colours, and by too freely using sphaltum; for by that means they are turned black, and are now very remote from the original tint.-Houb., Pilk. HAID (John Jacob), a German portrait painter, and engraver in mezzotinto, born in the Duchy of Wurtemburg in 1703. He went young to Augsbourg, where he became a pupil of Ridinger. He painted portraits with success, and distinguished himself by the plates he scraped of the portraits of the illustrious personages of Germany, which, with their lives, written by Jacob Brucker, was published in a large folio volume, containing a hundred prints, at Augsbourg, in 1741.-Strutt. HAID (John Gottfried). He was the son of the preceding artist, born at Augsbourg in 1730, and was instructed by his father. He came to England when he was young, and engraved some plates for Mr. Boydell, which are executed in a very respectable style. He also executed several plates after his return to Germany, which possess great merit. | William Hervey, herald; Thomas HAINZELMAN (Elias), a German engraver, born at Augsbourg in 1640. After learning the first principles of design in his native city, he went to Paris, where he became a pupil of Francis Poilly, whose manner he followed with great success. Although not very correct in his design, his prints possess great merit. particularly his portraits.-Strutt. HAINZELMAN (John), the brother of the foregoing artist, was born at Augsbourg in 1641. He accompanied his brother to Paris, and was also instructed in engraving by Francis Poilly. He engraved a variety of subjects, from various masters, and a number of portraits, which he designed from the life, in which his design is more correct than that of Elias.-Ibid. HALBECK (John), a Danish engraver, who flourished about the year 1618. Among other plates, he engraved a set of grotesque ornaments, and a large plate of the Heads of the Emperors, from Julius Cæsar to Ferdinand II.-Ibid. HALL (Charles), an English engraver, born about the year 1720. He was brought up a letter engraver; but he soon aspired to a more respectable branch of the art, and he was much employed in engraving portraits, coins, medals, and other antiquities. His portraits are his best works; and, independent of the merit of their execution, they are faithful representations of the originals from which they are taken. The following are his best productions: Thomas Howard, when earl of Surrey, who gained the victory at Flodden Field; Henry Fitzallen, Earl of Arundel; Catherine Marchioness of Pembroke; Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke; Sir George Barnes, lord mayor of London; HALL (John), an English engraver, born about the year 1740. He engraved several plates for the collection of Mr. Boydell. They are chiefly executed with the graver, in a clear, bold style, and possess great merit.-Ibid. HALLE (Claude), a French painter, born at Paris in 1651, and died in 1736, aged 85. He was the son of Daniel Hallé, an historical painter, who taught him the rudiments of the art. In 1680 he painted a large picture of Christ driving the Money-changers out of the Temple, for the church of Notre Dame, which gained him considerable reputation; and in 1682, he was made a member of the Royal Academy at Paris. In the same church is one of his best productions, representing the Annunciation. There are several other pictures by him in the churches at Paris. His colouring is agreeable, but not vigorous; and his design, though not incorrect, is mannered and constrained.-Pilk, HALLE (Noel), he was the son and scholar of the preceding artist, born at Paris in 1701, and died in 1781, aged 80. According to M. Watelot, he was one of those artists who had few defects, but to whom nature had refused the fire and inspiration so essential to reach an elevated rank in the art. His best performance is the picture he painted for the church of St. Louis at Versailles. He executed a few etchings from his own designs, among which are, Antiochus thrown from his Chariot, and the companion.--Pilk. HALS (Francis), a celebrated portrait painter, born at Mechlin in 1584, and died in 1666, aged 82, He was a disciple of Charles Van Mander. Hals had a lively and prompt turn, and applied himself work so wonderfully, and he emdiligently to the study of nature, as braced him with a degree of transwell as to explore the true principles port not to be described. Vandyck of his art, in respect of colouring endeavoured to prevail on him to and pencilling, till he so effectually go as his associate to England, and confirmed his hand and judgment, engaged to enrich him; but Hals that he became an admirable painter declined that honourable proposal, of portraits. No artist of his time and told him, that his happiness was superior to him, except Van- consisted solely in the enjoyment of dyck, in that branch of his profes- his friends and his bottle, and while sion; and but very few painters he possessed those, he was fully could be admitted into competition content with his condition and his with him. He painted in a beautiful country. Those celebrated artists manner, and gave his portraits a quitted each other with mutual strong resemblance, a lively expres- regret, and Vandyck used to say, sion, and a true character. His that Hals would have been the best colouring was extremely good and in his profession if he had given natural; and he mixed his tints in a more tenderness to his colours; for, peculiar manner, so as to give a sur- as to his pencil, he knew not one prising force to his pictures, by the who was so perfectly master of it.— freedom and boldness of his pencil. Houb., Sandrart., Pilk. Vandyck had conceived so high an opinion of the merits of Hals, by having examined several of his performances, that he went to Haerlem, where that artist lived, with no other intention than to pay him a visit; and introduced himself as a gentleman on his travels, who wished to have his portrait painted, and yet had but two hours to spare for that purpose. Hals, who was hurried away from the tavern, took the first canvas that lay in his reach, and sat down to his work in a very expeditious manner. In a short time he proceeded so far, that he desired Vandyck to look at what he had done; and that artist not only seemed to be much pleased, but told Hals that such work seemed to him so very easy, he was persuaded he could do it himself. Immediately he took the palette and pencils, made Franck Hals sit down, and spent a quarter of an hour in painting his portrait; but the moment Hals cast his eyes on it, he cried out in astonishment, that no hand except that of Vandyck could HALS (Dirk), a Flemish painter, and brother of the preceding, born at Mechlin in 1589, and died in 1656, aged 67. He was a disciple of Abraham Bloemart, under whose direction he principally practised the painting of animals; but when he quitted that master, he chose for his general subjects, drolls, conversations, feasts, or merry-makings, which he designed with a great deal of low humour and spirit; but he was in no degree comparable with his brother, either in correctness, colouring, or excellence of handling.Houb., Pilk. HAMILTON (Gavin). This gentleman was descended from an ancient Scotch family, and visited Italy at an early age. He has distinguished himself more by his ardour in promoting the fine arts, than as a painter; in collecting antiquities and advancing the interests of science. His best paintings are, Achilles grasping the dead body of Patroclus, and rejecting the consolation of the Grecian Chiefs; Achilles dismissing Briseis; and Hector tied to his Chariot. He died about 1775.- that celebrated painter's works showed such exactness, and at the same time such a freedom of hand, that they were frequently mistaken for originals. Though he was usually employed in portrait painting, yet he sometimes designed historical and allegorical subjects. Of the latter hall of the States of Holland, representing Peace, under the figure of a beautiful woman seated on a throne holding a dove on her knees, and crowned with wreaths of laurel by two Genii. The composition is rich, and it is painted with a great deal of force; the carnations approaching very near to the tints of Vandyck.— Houb., Pilk., De Piles. HAMILTON (William), an historical painter, born in 1751, and died in 1801, aged 50. When he was very young, he accompanied A. Zucchi to Italy. After a residence of some years at Rome, he returned to England, and soon dis-kind there is a large picture in the tinguished himself by the readiness of his invention, the suavity of his style, and the charm of his colouring. He practised in many different ways, mostly history, and frequently arabesque, in which latter kind he executed some decorations at the seat of the late earl of Bute, at High Cliff, Hampshire. He sometimes painted portraits, but his manner was not well adapted to that branch; yet his portrait of Mrs. Siddons, in the character of Lady Randolph (in the possession of the late Samuel Whitbread, Esq.), was allowed to have great merit. He was much employed by the late alderman Boydell, for his Shakspeare, and by Mr. Macklin, for his edition of the Bible, and of the Poets. In the former, his Woman of Samaria deserves much praise. One of his best works was a picture of the Queen of Sheba entertained at a banquet by Solomon, a design for a window in Arundel Castle. His manner of painting was light, airy, and pleasant, and he excelled in ornaments, to which he gave a propriety, richness, and classic air. His coloured drawings imitate the fulness of his oil-paintings, with more freshness, and are finished with taste. -Gen. Biog. Dict. HARDIME (Peter), a Flemish painter, born at Antwerp in 1678, and died in 1748, aged 70. He received the first instructions in the art of his brother Simon, who was a flower painter. He imitated the manner of his brother, but was much superior to him in talents, and excelled him to a very great degree, though he withdrew himself from his direction when he was only nineteen years of age, and at that early age commenced business in his profession. He fixed upon the Hague for his place of residence, and was much employed by the principal persons in that city; which so much increased his reputation, that his works were soon distributed through all the Low Countries. He painted for the monastery of the Bernardines, near Antwerp, in the year 1718, four large designs, representing the Four Seasons, in which he introduced all the fruits and flowers peculiar to each. The objects are HANNEMAN (John), a Dutch portrait painter, born at the Hague in 1611, and died in 1680, aged 69. He was a disciple of Hubert Rave-well grouped, the fruits and flowers stein, and formed his taste and manner of pencilling by studying and copying the works of Vandyck. Several of Hanneman's copies after are fine imitations of nature, freely handled, with an agreeable tone of colouring, and are well finished.Houb. Pilk. |
