HOUZE scape with Figures, Angers Museum. Bel- lier, i. 77!) ; Larousse. HOUZE, FLORKNTIN, born .at Tournay in 1812. History and genre painter, pupil at Lirge of Hennequin, and of Antwerp Academy under Nicaise do Keyser, then studied in Paris, and returned to Tournay in 1844 ; received a medal in 1842 ; lives in Brussels. He paints also good portraits. Works : Last Moments of Lord Percy (1839); Entering the Convent (184(5); St. Vincent de Paula and the Inundated ; St. Charles Borromco with People infected by the Plague, St. Augustine healing a Sick Man ; Cardinal's Visit to Hospital, Tournay Mu- seum ; Crucifixion ; Return from Masked Ball ; Italian Beggars. Journal des. B. Arts (18(10), 143; Miiller, 2(17. HOVE, BAIITHOLOMKUS JOHANNES VAN, born at The Hague, Oct. 28, 17!)0, died in 1880. Painter of city views and church interiors, pupil of Breckenhcimer ; medal, 1842. Member of Amsterdam Acad- emy and several others ; won great reputa- tion and several medals from art associa- tions, and received costly presents from several potentates. Subsequently was the- atre painter at The Hague. Professor at Hague Academy. Order of Oaken Crown, 1847. Works : View of Musee Royal at The Hague, City Views (2), Amsterdam Museum; Dutch City by Moonlight, Ghent Museum ; do., Rotterdam Museum ; City on a lliver, Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Immerx.ecl, ii. 59 ; Kramm, iii. 7(iO ; vii. 8(i. HOVE, HUBERTUS VAN, born at The Hague in 1814, died at Antwerp in 1805. Architecture and landscape painter, son and pupil of preceding, and pupil of Hendrik van de Sande Backhuyzen ; settled at Antwerp. Gold medal, 1852 ; Order of Leopold, 1857. Painted afterwards also good kitchen-pieces. Works : View on Sea-Shore, Rotterdam Mu- seum ; Fishing Expedition, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam ; Interior, Kunsthalle, Ham- burg ; Chamber in City Hall at Amsterdam (1837), Leipsic Museum ; Vestibule, New Piuakothek, Munich ; Kitchen Interior, His- torical Society, New York. Immerzeel, ii. 60; Kramm, iii. 700. HOVE, VICTOR VAN, born at Renaix, East Flanders, in 1825. Genre painter, was at first a sculptor. His affecting scenes from popular life are painted in a pleasing manner. Order of Leopold, medals in Paris (1863) and Vienna (1873). Works: Orphans going to Church (18(53) ; Protes- tant Girl's Sunday (1804) ; On Way to School (1805) ; Fisherman's Return on Coast of Flanders ; The Present ; Sunday Morning in Holland (180!)). Jour, des B. Arts (1800), 158 ; Miiller, 208. HOVEMEYER, AUGUST, born at Biicke- burg, Oldenburg, Sept. 23, 1824, died in Munich, Jan. 13, 1878. History painter, pupil of the Munich Academy under Kaul- bach and Schwind, but formed himself chiefly after the works of Genelli, and was one of the last representatives of the school of Cornelius. In 1850-58 he was employed upon extensive fresco paintings in W'iirz- burg, Berne, and Leipsic. In 1804-05 vis- ited Italy, where he copied Raphael's School of Athens, and Titian's Venus ; worked in 1807-09 in Stuttgart and Munich, and exe- cuted iu 1872-74 ten large compositions in oil and fresco for the Railroad Directors' building in Ludwigshafen. Works : Alle- gorical Figures (1851), Royal Villa, Bercht- esgaden ; Expulsion from Paradise (1854) ; Christmas Night, Start for the Alp (1855). Frescos : Allegories in the Railway Station at W'lirzburg (1850); in the Federal Palace, Berne (1850-57); Eight compositions from Cupid and Psyche (1858), Leipsic Museum; The Flood, 1800 (cartoon) ; Three historical pictures (1803), National Museum, Munich; Prometheus (1800), in America ; six ceiling paintings in oil, and four Allegories in fresco (1872-74), Ludwigshafen. Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 215 ; Jour. des. B. Arts, Jan. 15, 1803 ; Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 302 ; Meyer, j Conv. Lex., xvii. 454. HOVENDEN, THOMAS, bom at Dun- mamvay, Ireland, in 1840. Genre painter, pupil of the School of Design, Cork, and of
