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• belins in 1771; director of the School of Art

in Rome in 1775-77; Member of Order of St. Michael, 1777. Works: Delilah cutting Samson's Hair (1734); Passage of the Red Sea (1736); Dispute between Minerva and Neptune (1748), Fontainebleau; Flight into Egypt (1759), Archbishop Flavian interceding for Inhabitants of Antioch (1762), Orléans Museum; St. Vincent de Paul Preaching (1761), Church of St. Louis, Versailles; Ceiling of Baptistery, St. Sulpice, Paris; Autumn, Geniuses of Poetry, History, Physics, and Astronomy (1761), Simon the Athenian (1777); Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (1779).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 737; Jal, 670; Larousse; Lejeune, Guide, i. 238.

HALLEZ, G. J., born at Frameries, near Mons, July 18, 1769, died in Brussels, May 18, 1840. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Mons Academy, where he won all the prizes; in 1787 travelled through France, and after his return was called to Brussels to paint portraits of the Emperor of Austria and other high personages; in 1796 was made professor at the central school of the Department Jemappes, and afterwards director of Mons Academy; settled in Brussels in 1839. Member of Antwerp Academy in 1817. Works: Marshal Beaulieu and Count van Zoon (1811); Young Mother and Child in Grotto; Jupiter's Awakening; Return (1813); Inundation Scene (1833); many portraits.—Immerzeel, ii. 10.

HALLMANN, ANTON, born at Hanover in 1812, died at Leghorn, Aug. 29, 1845. Architecture painter, and renowned architect, pupil in Hanover of Hellner, then of Munich Academy; in 1833 walked to Rome, and in 1834 to Naples; returned to Munich in 1839, then went to St. Petersburg, and thence to London and Paris; in 1841 returned to Rome, and in 1842 visited Dresden. Works: Convent Garden near Fossa Nova (1841); Five pictures illustrating Song of Mignon (1842); Day in Cyprus (1843); Decayed Villa in Evening Light (1845).—Brockhaus, viii. 738; Cotta's Kunstbl., 1846; Faber, vi. 356.

HALS, DIRK, born in Haarlem before 1600, died there, buried May 17, 1656. Dutch school; genre painter, brother and pupil of Frans the elder. His works, usually representing soldiers, cavaliers, and women, eating, drinking, dancing, or listening to music, were painted between 1620 and 1653. His style has some analogy with that of Peter de Hooch; the predominant tone is a cool gray, lending great harmony to the light colours; only in his later works a warmer brownish tone is apparent. He painted figures in Dirk van Deelen's pictures. Works: Merry Party, National Gallery, London; Assembly in a Park (about 1616), Louvre, Paris; Lady at the Piano, Museum, Amsterdam; Five Senses (1624), D. Franken, ib.; Ball-Scene (1628, interior by Van Deelen), N. J. W. Smallenburg, The Hague; The Topers (1627), Berlin Museum; Conversation-pieces (two 1636, one 1653), Figure of Rommelpotspeeler, Amalienstift, Dessau; Merry Party, Stuttgart Museum; Two Cavaliers and a Lady, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Assembly (1622), Gallery, Copenhagen; Game at Draughts (1635), Count Moltke, ib.; Assembly of Ladies and Gentlemen, Musical Party (attributed to A. Palamedesz), Gotha Museum; Loving Couple, Flute Lesson (1646), Hausmann Collection, Hanover; Conversation-piece (1626), Peter von Semenoff, St. Petersburg; do. (1628), Violoncello Player (attributed to J. le Ducq), Academy, Vienna; Loving Couple on a Walk (1624), Game of Tric-trac, Assembly, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Assembly in a Park (about 1620), Josef von Lippmann, ib.; Lute Player (1626), formerly Gsell Collection, ib.; Reading a Letter, Bergamo Gallery; Festival, Metropolitan Museum, New York.—Bode, Studien, 121, 613; Burger, Musées, ii. 121; Gaz. des. B. Arts (1868), xxv. 390; Zahn, Jahrbücher, 1871.