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HULSWIT pictures, enlivened with figures, are vividly conceived and powerful in tone. Not to be confounded with Teeter Verlmlst, alias Floris, of Mec'blin, who became master of the guild at Antwerp in 1589, and took Jan Wildens as a pupil in 1590, nor with Pieter van <liT Hulst, called Zonnebloem, landscape and still-life painter (born at Dordrecht, Feb. 25, 1051, died in 1708), by whom there is a Village View (1(552) in the Stiidel Gal- lery at Frankfort. Work, Flemish Kirmcss (1028), Brunswick Museum. Riegel, Bei- triige, ii. 88. HULSWIT, JAN, born at Amsterdam, April 11, 17GO, died there, Aug. 8, 1822. Landscape painter, pupil of Pieter Barbiers, the younger (born in 174'J) ; member of Royal Institute of the Netherlands and of Amsterdam Academy. Works : Landscapes (2, 1807, 1813), City Gate (1807), Amsterdam Museum ; Landscape, Stadel Gallery, Frank- fort. Immerzeel, ii. 00. HUMBERT, FERDINAND, born in Paris, Oct. 8, 1842. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Picot, Cabanel, and Eugene Fromentin. A skilful realist, and vigorous colourist. Medals: 1800, 1807, 1809 ; 3d class, 1878 ; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Flight of Nero (1805) ; CEdipus and Antigone Find- ing the Bodies of Eteocles and Polynices (1800), Aurillac Museum ; Ambroise Paro and the Duke de Nemours (18(58) ; Dr. Nela- ton ; Massaouda (18(59) ; John Baptist and the Fortune-Teller (1872) ; Delilah (1873) ; Madonna and St. John (1874), Luxembourg Museum ; Christ at the Column (1875), Or- leans Museum ; Woman taken in Adultery (1877); Rape of Dejanira (1878); Salome (1880) ; Child's Portrait (1884) ; The End of the Day (1885). Bellier, i. 794 ; Larousse, | Supplement. HUMBERT, JEAN CHARLES FERDI- NAND, born at Dardagny, near Geneva, in 1813, died at Geneva, March 20, 1881. Ani- mal and landscape painter, pupil in Paris of Ingres and of Diday, but studied chiefly from nature. Medal, 3d class, Paris, 1842 ; honorary member of St. Petersburg Acad- emy, 18(50 ; Russian Order of Stanislaus, 1800 ; Italian Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus, 1803. Works : Cattle Drinking, Basle Museum ; Herd Crossing River (1840), Berne Museum ; The Ford, Musee Rath, Geneva. HUMMEL, KARL, born in Weimar in 1821. Landscape painter, pupil of Preller, with whom he visited Holland, Norway, Riigen, and Tyrol ; lived in Italy in 1842-40, and painted many landscapes in the ideal style of Claude Lorrain. Professor at the Weimar Art School since 1859. Works : Mountainous Landscape (1854) ; Gardens of Armida, View of Brienz Lake (1858), View in Lauterbrunn Valley (1859), Ger- man Landscape (1800), Leipsic Museum ; Rape of Hylas ; Seneca's Tower in Corsica ; Flight to Egypt ; Garden of Belriguardo ; Tyrolese Landscape ; View of Miihlberg ; Views of Bohemian Forest ; Monte Rotondo in Corsica ; Ajaccio seen from Campo dell' Oro ; Capo di Sorrento ; Civita Castellana ; Monte-Soracte. Miiller, 209 ; Nagler, Mon., iii. 271. HUMPHREY, OXIAS, born at Honiton, Devonshire, Sept. 8, 1742, died in London, March 9, 1810. Studied drawing in the school of William Shipley, London, and miniature painting under Samuel Collins, at Bath. In 1704 he settled in London, and gained much reputation as a miniature painter. In 1773 he accompanied Romney to Italy, and in 1785 went to India, where he painted many illustrious natives. His crayon portraits were much esteemed. He became A.R.A. in 1779, and R.A. in 1791. Redgrave ; Cat. Nat. Port. Gal. ; Cat. S. Kensington Mus. ; Nat. Port. Exhib. (1867) ; Sandby, ii. 214. HUNDERTPFUND, LIBERAT, born in Bregeuz, Nov. 11, 1800, died there, March 304