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IIAACII emy and of Piloty. In 1872 ho went to Athens and travelled through Asia Minor. Since 1874 has resided v in Munich, where he 1ms painted several Oriental subjects and recently some large; al- legorical pictures. Medal, Paris, lid class, 1878. Works : Joseph interpreting theDreoin; Dog-Visitation (187(1); The Orphans ; News of Sedan (1H71); The Chicken Thief (187:() ; Betrothal of Children in Greece ; Pilgrimage of Painters in the East ; Child's Confession (1878), Darmstadt Museum ; Art and its Genii (18711); Charity, New York Museum. Brockhaus, viii. (170 ; Kunst-Chrouik, vi. (i : Miiller, 228. HAACH, Ll'DWIG, born in Dresden in 1811S, died in Home, March 21. 1812. History painter, pupil of the Drawing School at Meissen, ami in I8.'!(l of Dresden Academy, then, in 18JS7, under Hildebrandt, of Diisseldorf Academy ; in 1841 went to Home, where he undermined his health by overwork. In 18i!(> ho deco- rated a hall in the house of the bookseller Barth at Leipsic with convivial scenes. Works : Christ in the Storm (18IJ8); Isaac and Ilebekah (1840); The Three Kings be- fore Herod (1842, unfinished). Andresen, L 44 ; W. Muller, Diisseldf. K., 42. HAAG, KARL, born at Erlangcn, Wiir- temberg, April 20, 1820. Genre painter, pupil of Nuremberg Art School, continued his studies in Munich and Home ; went in 1847 to England, where he took up paint- ing in water-colours exclusively ; visited It- aly, and, in 1858, the Libyan Desert, dwelt for months among the Bedouins, and lias since made repeated visits to Egypt and other parts of the East. Since 1807 has lived at Hampstead, London. His pictures are distinguished by ethnographic interest as well as characteristic conception and masterly chiaroscuro. Court- painter to Duke of Coburg-Gotha ; member of Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours since l!S.~>o ; honorary member of Soeiete Beige des Aquarellistes ; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Ancient Vestibule beneath Temple Area in Jerusalem ; Golden Gateway ; Holv Ruck in Mosque of Omar; Aghile Agha re- ceiving Prince of Wales; Tribe of Ana/eh Bedouins leaving Palmvra ; Bivouac in the Desert ; Arrival at Well in Desert ; Prepar- ing Evening Meal ; Desert Hospitality; On the Alert; Heady for Defence; Terror of the Desert; Danger in the Desert ; Sabine Woman; liedouin's Devotion; Ruins of Baalbek ; Panorama of Palmyra ; Sphinx of Ghi/eh ; Pyramid of Cheops (1SSII); View in Bavarian Alps; High-Priest at Nablus ; A Dragoman ; Acropolis at Athens ; Young Nubian Woman ; Nargileh ; Evening at Hal- moral ; Royal Familv ascending Loch-na- Garaidh ; Stags brought Home ; Queen and Prince Consort, fording Pool TartV. Art Journal (18S:i), 71 ; Hrockhaus, viii. (172; Miiller. 228 ; Men of the Time ( l8St). 50S ; Portfolio (1878), SI. HAANEN, GEORG GILLIS VAN. born at Utrecht, Aug. 2.'!, 1S07. Genre and land- scape painter, son and pupil of Casparis van Haanen ( 1778 -184!)); studied from nature on his travels (about 1842) through Germany to Vienna, whence he made studv-trips to Hungary, visited Antwerp, and since 1854 seems to have settled at Cologne. His pict- ures are distinguished for exquisite light effects and line execution. Member of Am- sterdam Academy in 18IS5. Works : Even ing School ; Peasant Inn : Quiet Evening, Vienna Museum; Dutch Vestibule (1811), Leipsic Museum ; Oak Wood in Hungary, Meadow in the Woods after Rain, Lady with Artist's Sketch-book (1847); Dutch School by Candlelight (1851); Market at Night, View in Bakony Forest Hungary (1852); Paternal Instruction, Halt before Dutch Inn, Old Dutch Church in Evening Light (1853); Dutch Interior in Sunlight