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and continued from time to time' an exhi- bitor. He died in September 1804.
HAND, Richard, qlasa painter. He was born in Warwickshire, and for a time practised in Ireland, painting landscapes and fruit, and was also employed in copying pictures. About the end of the 18th cen- tury he learnt the art of staining glass from a clever chemist in Dublin, and he then applied himself to glass painting. He was an ingenious artist, and succeeding, he made many improvements in his art. He prac- tisecf at the early part of the 19th century, and had then settled in England, and was residing in Belgrave Place, Pimlico. He painted some glass for Carlton House, Arundel Castle, and Donnington Hall. He died shortly before 1817.
HANDASYDE, Charles, miniature and enamel painter. Practised towards the end of the 18th century. In 1765 he received a Society of Arts' premium for an historical Dainting in enamel. He lived in Covent Garden between 1770-80. He exhibited with the Society of Artists in 1761 and at the Royal Academy in 1776, but not subsequently. He etched and mezzo-tinted his own portrait.
H ANNAN, William, decorative paint- er. Born in Scotland. Commencing life as an apprentice to a cabinet-maker, he encouraged a love of drawing, and was employed by Lord Le de Spencer at West Wycombe, where he paintedseveral ceilings, which were chiefly copies from the designs of others. He, however, produced some original works, and some drawings made by him in the gardens at West Wycombe were engraved by WoollettJ and published in 1757- His name appears in the Exhibition catalogue of 1769 and the following years. He died at West Wycombe about 1775. • HANNEMAN, Adrian, portrait paint- er. Born at the Hague in 1611. Hepainted portraits and occasionally history. Studied the manner of Vandyck, and came to Eng- land in the reign of Charles I., and during a residence here of 16 years, part of which he was employed under Mytens, he painted many persons of distinction, whose portraits are preserved in family collections. He returned to the Hague, and there became the favourite painter of Mary, Princess of Orange, and was in 1665 director of the Academy. He died in 1680. His heads were very well drawn, coloured and expressed, his hands good, and his portraits gener- ally agreeable. Sanderson speaks of him as the first who vamped up copies of the old masters and passed them off as the originals.
HANNEMAN, William, portrait painter. Son of the foregoing. Was es- teemed as a portrait painter in the reign of Charles I. He died young, and was buried in the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. 196
HARDING, J. W. , engraver* Practised in the latter half of the 18th century, work- ing in the dot manner, and was chiefly employed upon the works of Angelica Kauffman and some of her contemporaries. Six plates of ' Sketches in North Wales,' coloured to represent drawings, and pub- lished in 1810, are probably by him. M HARDING, Sylvester, miniature pahvter. He was born at Newcastle-under- Lyme, July 25, 1745. Sent to an uncle in London at the age of 10 years, he was placed by him to a trade which he disliked — it is said to a hair-dresser — and at 14 he ran away and was not heard of for several years. He had joined a company of stroll- ing players, and under an assumed name had played at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London, but without any hope of success. His first attachment had been to art, and he left the players in 1775, began practice as a miniature painter, and came to London to follow that branch of the profession. From 1777 to 1787 he exhibited his minia- tures at the Royal Academy. He was also a copyist in water-colour of old family por- traits. A drawing by him, 'Portraits of Printsellers, , was engraved. He then entered upon a publication of some por- traits in illustration of Shakespeare, 1793, many of which he engraved, and estab- lishing himself in Pall Mall, he published, in 1795, ' The Biographical Mirror/ a work entirely got up by himself and his brother (who was afterwards appointed librarian to the Queen at Frogmore). He also pub- lished the 'Memoirs of Count de Gram- niont/ and made the designs for 'The Economy of Human Life.' He was well known to the collectors of his day. He died in Pall Mall, August 12, 1809.
HARDING, Edward, engraver. Son of the above. He engraved some of the works published by his rather, and was rising in nis profession, when, at the age of 20 years, he aied September 11, 1796.
HARDING, George Perfect, water- colour painter. Another son of the fore- going Sylvester Harding. He commenced art as a portrait painter, and from 1811 to 1840 was an occasional exhibitor of por- traits at the Royal Academy. But he was distinguished by his minute and faitlif ul copies in water-colours of many portraits in our public and private collections, which possess historical and antiquarian interest; of these, some were published by the
- Granger Society,' and the publication was
continued, by subscription, by him for five years after the expiration of the Society. He also copied portraits for several his- torical publications, the series of portraits of the 'Deans of Westminster,' also for Neal and Bravley's ' History of the Abbey,' 1822-23; and ' The Sepulchral Brasses in Westminster Abbey/ 1825. He married
