HAMILTON, JOHN McLURE, born in Philadelphia in 1853. Genre painter; studied at the Royal Academy, Antwerp, under Van Lerius, and at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Gérôme. Exhibited at National Academy in 1877, Le Rire, and at Pennsylvania Academy in 1885, The Old Pioneer and Swiftwater. Studio in Philadelphia.
HAMILTON, PHILIP FERDINAND
DE, born at Brussels in 1664, died in Vienna
in 1750. Animal and still-life painter,
son and pupil of James; was called to the
court of Vienna by Charles VI., who employed
him extensively. His pictures are
frequently to be met with at the country-seats
and in the castles of the Austrian
nobility, and in the public galleries of Vienna,
Prague, Pesth, Munich, Weimar, Dessau,
Carlsruhe, Frankfort, and Oldenburg.—Kramm,
ii. 636; Wurzbach, vii. 263.
HAMLET, PLAY SCENE IN, Daniel
Maclise, National Gallery, London; canvas,
H. 5 ft. × 9 ft. The play scene in centre,
background; in foreground, right, the king
and queen and Polonius, with attendants and
soldiers; left, Ophelia with Horatio leaning
on her chair, and behind, attendants and
soldiers; centre, Hamlet lying at feet of
Ophelia, gazing on the king's face. Royal
Academy, 1842. Engraved by C. Rolls.—Art
Journal (1854), 214.
HAMLET WITH YORICK'S SKULL,
Sir Thomas Lawrence, National Portrait
Gallery, London; canvas, H. 10 ft. × 6 ft. 6
in. Portrait of John Philip Kemble, as
Hamlet, apostrophizing the skull of Yorick,
the king's jester, which he holds in his hand.
Painted in 1801; presented in 1836 by King
William IV. Transferred from National Gallery
in 1884. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds
and others. Sketch sold at Sir T. Baring
sale, 1848, for 50 guineas.—Gower, 48; Waagen,
Treasures, i. 380.
HAMMAN, (ÉDOUARD JEAN) CONRAD,
born at Ostend, Sept. 24, 1819. Historical
genre painter, pupil of Antwerp
Academy and of De Keyser; settled in 1846
in Paris. Gold medal in Brussels, 1848;
medals in Paris: 3d class, 1853; 2d class,
1859, 1863, 1864; Order of Leopold, 1854;
L. of Honour, 1864. Works: Preparations
for Serenade, Rabelais at the Court of France,
Hamlet, Charles IX. and his Surgeon Ambroise
Paré, Louis XIII. and Maria de' Medici
surprised by Richelieu, Doge Mocenigo
and Titian visiting Paul Veronese, Daughter
of the Criminal (1847-53); Christopher Columbus;
Adrian Willaert playing Organ in
Monastery at Bruges, Brussels Museum;
Workshop of Stradivarius (1869); The Anatomist
Vesalius in Padua; Dante at Ravenna
(1859); Entry of Duke Albrecht VII.
and Isabella into Ostend; The Heptaméron
of Margaret of Angoulême; Childhood of
Francis I.; Charles V. instructed by Erasmus
(1863), Luxembourg Museum; Women
of Siena during the Siege (1864); Festival
of Bucentaur in Venice (1867); Masaniello
and the Viceroy of Naples; Murillo in his
Studio; Huguenot Family in Flight (1870);
The Secrets of Madame and of the Soubrette
(1873); Father's Memories (1878);
Grassy Corner in Normandy (1881); Meadows
of Surdif (1882); Farm Yard in Normandy
(1883); The Breakers (1884).—Jour.
des B. Arts (1860), 138; Kramm, ii. 636;
Müller, 167.
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HAMMER, (EDMUND) GUIDO, born in
Dresden, Feb. 4, 1821.
Animal painter and illustrator,
pupil of Dresden
Academy and of
Julius Hübner. In 1847
visited Trieste and
North Italy on foot, and
returned home by Munich
and Nuremberg;
has made frequent excursions
into the forests
of Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia, and the
Tyrol; went to Constantinople in 1866.
Works: Mort, Saxon Art Union; Two Stags
Fighting; Greyhound (1852), Sow with
Grice stopped by Dog (1860), Dresden Gallery.—Müller,
235.
