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HENNESSEY (1805), /</)// (1872), Naiad, Good Samaritan (1874), Luxembourg Museum ; Girl (18GG); Biblis (1867), Dijon Museum ; "Woman Dressing;, Woman Reclining (18G9), Mulhouse Museum; Little Writer (1809); Alsatian Woman (1870) ; Magdalen in the Desert (1874) ; Dead Christ (1876); John the Baptist, Evening (1877); Christ at the Tomb, Eclogue (1879); The Fountain, Sleep (1880) ; The Spring, St. Jerome (1881); Bara (1882); Woman Heading, Nun (1883); Christ Entombed, Weeping Nymph (1884) ; Madeleine (1885); Sleeping Nymph, He- | | |-| fl |J R pose, La Source (1881), Fabiola (1885), Mrs. M. J. Morgan Collection, New York ; Nymph, W. T. Wai- tors, Baltimore ; Andromeda, Mine. Raffalo- vitch, Paris. Gay., des B. Arts (18(5!)), i. 4!)5 ; Larousse ; Claret it 1 , Peintres (1884), ii. 81. HENNESSEY, WILLIAM J., born in Thomastown, Ireland, in 18:$!). Landscape and genre painter ; went to New York in 1849, pupil in 185G of National Academy ; became an A.N.A. in 18G2, and N.A. in 18(i:$ ; removed in 1870 to London, but resides the greater part of the year in Normandy. Works: In Memoriam ; Wanderers ; On the Sands ; New England Hills ; Summer Sea ; Les Bons Amis ; Gypsy Flower-Girl ; New Eng- land Barberry Pickers ; Indian Summer ; Notre Dame des Flols (1877); Fute-Day in Cider Orchard in Normandy (1878); Wait- ing for (he Boats, Gloire de Dijon, Nor- mandy Pippin, Aftermath, Sunbeam (1879); Yisit to the Peacock, Evening 'at Calvados, Spring Fantasy, In a Normandy Cider Or- chard (1880); Straw Harvest in Calvados, Jocund Spring, An Impressionist at Work (1881) ; Spring in Calvados, Winter in Cal- vados, En Fete Calvados (1882); Pastoral, AVith the Birds (1883); 'Twixt Day and Night (1884) ; Return from School, The Flowers of May (1885). HENNIG, GUSTAV ADOLF, born in Dresden in 1798, died in Leipsic, Jan. 15, 18G9. History painter, pupil of Leipsic Academy, then studied in Rome ; after his return became professor, later director, of Leipsic Academy, and in 1840 professor at Dresden Academy. Works : Christ driv- ing out the Money-Changers ; Finding of Moses (1848), Dresden Museum ; Annuncia- tion, Saltarello Dance, Leipsic Museum. -Kunstbl. (185!$), 49; Christl. Kimstbl. (1870), 12. KENNING, ADOLF, born in Berlin in 1809. History and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of Wach ; in 1833 went to Italy for several years. Member of and professor at Berlin Academy. Works : Portrait of Himself (182G); Girl of Frascati (1838), National Gallery, Berlin ; Funeral in the Campagna ; Portrait Group of Count Raczynski's Family ; Portrait of Sculptor Rauch ; St. Luke and St. John, Chapel of Royal Palace, Berlin ; Colossal Figures of Eight Prussian Provinces, Royal Palace, Ber- lin; Thetis and Achilles; Ulysses and Leuco- thea ; Diana and Iphigenia ; yEueas and An- chises ; Ajax Enraged ; Romulus Ploughing. Miiller, 250 ; Kugler, Kleine Schriften, iii. 175 ; Rosenberg, Berl. Malcrsch., 33. HENNINGS, FRIEDRICH, born in Bre- men in 1838. Landscape painter, pupil in Diisseldorf of Oswald Achenbach ; perfected himself by repeated journeys to Italy. Among his German and North Italian land- scapes, those by moonlight are the most successful. Has recently exhibited garden scenes with figures mostly in rococo-costume. Works : Landscape with Gypsies (18G4) ; Malsen on Lake Garda (1865) ; Evening in Garden of Villa San Lissandro ; Nuremberg at Moonrise; Salzburg by Moonlight (18G9); View of Passau ; Venice ; Avenue near Nymphenburg ; Avenue at Wilhelmshohe ; Park with rococo-figures. Miiller, 250. HENNINGSEN, ERIK, born in Copen- hagen, Aug. 29, 1855. Genre painter, pu- 220