IIOMME of a Boat, Wrecking of a Vessel (1884). Sheldon, 25. HOMME AU GANT (Man with a Glove), Titian, Louvre ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. x2 ft. 11 in.; signed. A young man, dressed in black, holding a glove in left hand. A noble portrait of Titian's middle period. Copy in Brunswick Gallery. Be- longed to Louis XIV. 0. & C., Titian, ii. 421. HONDECOETER, GILLIS D', born at Antwerp, died at Amsterdam (?) after 1037. Flemish school ; landscape and bird paint- er, pupil at Utrecht of Hoelant Savery, and at Amsterdam of David Vinckeboons ; a descendant of the Brabantine Marquises of Westerloo. At first painted portraits ; re- moved to Amsterdam, where he lived al- ready in 1015, and contracted a second marriage in 1028. Works : Mountainous Landscape, Berlin Museum ; do. (lOO'.l), Schleissheim Gallery ; Bird Concert, Cas- sel Gallery ; do. (1620), Fiirstenberg Gal- lery, Donaueschingen ; Dead Birds (1055? attributed), Rotterdam Museum. Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. (17 ; Kramm, iii. 717 ; Meyer, Gem. ki'.ngl. Mus., 209. HONDKCOKTI'TR, MELCHIOll D', born . ,-. ., in Utrecht in 1030, died in Amster- dam, April 3, 10!>5. Dutch school; ani- mal painter, sou and pupil of Gys- bert H., and of his uncle, Jan Baptista Weenix. Painted birds with singular truthfulness, and had a poetic feeling for their varied habits. In 1659-03 member of Hague guild ; in 1088 took the freedom of Amsterdam. Works: Birds in a Park, White Turkey, Peacock and Turkey, Louvre; Crow stripped of Borrowed Feathers (1071), Menagerie of Prince William III. at Loo, two others, Hague Museum ; Floating Feather, Hen defending Chickens, Parrots and Other Birds, Dead Birds, Birds and Hare, four others, Amsterdam Museum ; Peacock and Poultry in a Park (1072), Cock Crowing, Still Life, Brussels Museum ; Foreign Water- Fowl, Berlin Museum ; Noah's Ark, Vessel with Fish (1661), Brunswick Museum ; Poul- try Yard (1668), Cock-Fight, do. (1686), Carlsruhe Gallery ; White Peacock and other Fancy Birds, Cock-Fights (2), Cassel Gal- lery ; Chickens, do. and Cock defying Bird of Prey, Bird Concert, Dead Game-Birds by a Gun, Dresden Museum ; Domestic Poul- try, Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort; do., Cologne, Gotha (3), Hanover, Leipsic, Stuttgart (3), Vienna (2) Museums, Palazzo Pitti, Flor- ence, Venice Academy, Copenhagen and Oldenburg Galleries, National Gallery, Lon- don (2), Liverpool Institution, Leuchtenberg Gallery, St. Petersburg ; Cock-Fight, Cock and Hen defending Chickens against Turkey, Barn Yard, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Water- Fowls (2), Dead Game and Hunting Imple- ments (2), Bird Park, Schleissheim Gallery; Cock-Fight (1668), Hen Family, Turkish Ducks, Dead Poultry (1678), Poultry Yard (1681), Schwerin Gallery; Poultry Yard, Pelican, Cassowary, etc., Dead Game, Her- MDhi ^ -; mitage, St. Petersburg. Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 67 ; Burger, i. 101, 280 ; Immerzeel, ii. 47 ; Kramm, iii. 717 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 457 ; De Stuers, 50. HONDIUS, AB11AHAM, born in Eotter- dam in 1038, died in London in 1095. Dutch school ; animal and genre painter ; went early to London, where he painted bear and boar hunts, conflagrations, and nocturnal gatherings by torchlight. The truthfulness, boldness, and vigour of this master would give him a high place were
