- emy and of Piloty. In 1872 he went to
Athens and travelled through Asia Minor. Since 1874 has resided in Munich, where he has painted several Oriental subjects and recently some large allegorical pictures. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1878. Works: Joseph interpreting the Dream; Dog-Visitation (1870); The Orphans; News of Sedan (1871); The Chicken Thief (1873); Betrothal of Children in Greece; Pilgrimage of Painters in the East; Child's Confession (1878), Darmstadt Museum; Art and its Genii (1879); Charity, New York Museum.—Brockhaus, viii. 670; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 6; Müller, 228.
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HAACH, LUDWIG, born in Dresden in 1813, died in Rome, March 24, 1842. History painter, pupil of the Drawing School at Meissen, and in 1830 of Dresden Academy, then, in 1837, under Hildebrandt, of Düsseldorf Academy; in 1841 went to Rome, where he undermined his health by overwork. In 1836 he decorated a hall in the house of the bookseller Barth at Leipsic with convivial scenes. Works: Christ in the Storm (1838); Isaac and Rebekah (1840); The Three Kings before Herod (1842, unfinished).—Andresen, i. 44; W. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 42.
HAAG, KARL, born at Erlangen, Würtemberg,
April 20, 1820. Genre painter,
pupil of Nuremberg Art School, continued
his studies in Munich and Rome; went in
1847 to England, where he took up painting
in water-colours exclusively; visited Italy,
and, in 1858, the Libyan Desert, dwelt
for months among the Bedouins, and has
since made repeated visits to Egypt and
other parts of the East. Since 1867 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
1850; honorary member of Société Belge
des Aquarellistes; L. of Honour, 1878.
Works: Ancient Vestibule beneath Temple
Area in Jerusalem; Golden Gateway; Holy
Rock in Mosque of Omar; Aghile Agha receiving
Prince of Wales; Tribe of Anazeh
Bedouins leaving Palmyra; Bivouac in the
Desert; Arrival at Well in Desert; Preparing
Evening Meal; Desert Hospitality; On
the Alert; Ready for Defence; Terror of
the Desert; Danger in the Desert; Sabine
Woman; Bedouin's Devotion; Ruins of
Baalbek; Panorama of Palmyra; Sphinx of
Ghizeh; Pyramid of Cheops (1880); View
in Bavarian Alps; High-Priest at Nablus;
A Dragoman; Acropolis at Athens; Young
Nubian Woman; Nargileh; Evening at Balmoral;
Royal Family ascending Loch-na-Garaidh;
Stags brought Home; Queen and
Prince Consort fording Pool Tarff.—Art
Journal (1883), 71; Brockhaus, viii. 672;
Müller, 228; Men of the Time (1884), 508;
Portfolio (1878), 81.
HAANEN, GEORG GILLIS VAN, born
at Utrecht, Aug. 23, 1807. Genre and landscape
painter, son and pupil of Casparis van
Haanen (1778-1849); studied from nature on
his travels (about 1842) through Germany
to Vienna, whence he made study-trips to
Hungary, visited Antwerp, and since 1854
seems to have settled at Cologne. His pictures
are distinguished for exquisite light
effects and fine execution. Member of Amsterdam
Academy in 1835. Works: Evening
School; Peasant Inn; Quiet Evening,
Vienna Museum; Dutch Vestibule (1841),
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
