HAMMER, HANS JÖRGEN, born in Copenhagen, Dec. 29, 1815. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Eckersberg; entered the army in 1848, took part in the campaign of that year, and took his leave as captain in 1860; visited Italy in 1856-58. Order of Dannebrog, 1861; Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1874. Works: Last Load of Hay (1845); Peasants' Amusement on Sunday (1847); View of Rome (1863); Market-Place at Ariccia (1863); Market-Day at Fredericia (1871); Long-Expected Letter (1877), Copenhagen Gallery.
HAMMER, JOHN J., born in Westhofen,
Germany, Jan. 1, 1842. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil in Munich from 1876 of Professors
Loefftz and Alexander Wagner. Removed
to New York in 1884. Works: In
the Shade (1881), In the Sun (1882), Kunstverein,
Munich; Gleaners (1883), William
Baumgarten, New York; Scenes from Pompeii—water-colours
(1883); Goose Girl
(1883), Munich Exhibition; Little Barefoot
(1884); Dreams of Childhood—water-colours
(1885); Portrait of Mrs. Margaret Carnegie
(1886), Andrew Carnegie, New York.
HAMON, JEAN LOUIS, born at St. Loup,
near Plouha
(Côtes-du-Nord),
May 8, 1821, died
at St. Raphaël
(Var), May 29,
1874. Genre
painter, pupil of
Delaroche and of
Gleyre; exhibited
in 1848 with
little success.
Gleyre then obtained him employment at
Sèvres, where he designed and painted a
number of vases, among them one for Queen
Victoria (1851), and another for the Empress.
Lived in Capri after 1865. Many of his
highly poetical and delicately painted pictures
have been engraved. Despite great
professional success, his life was embittered
and shortened by sickness and pecuniary
embarrassment. Medals: 3d class, 1853;
2d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1855. Works:
Tomb of Christ, Frieze of a Door (1848);
Equality in the Seraglio, Parrot playing with
two Girls, a Roman Notice (1849); Human
Comedy (1852), Luxembourg Museum; My
Sister isn't There (1853); Cupid and his Followers,
The Orphans, Nurse with Children, It
is not I (1855); Tomb of Christ (1865), Marseilles
Museum; Chained Butterfly, Enslaved
Fly, The Cheap Shop, The Tamer, Love, Women
Winding (1857); Cupid Visiting (1859);
Aviary, Smuggler, Guardianship, Virgins of
Lesbos (1861); Elder Sister, Mountebank
(1861), Nantes Museum; Imitator, Day of Betrothal,
Aurora (1864); Muses at Pompeii
(1866); Promenade (1867); Ophelia on the
Bank of the Dark River (1873); Among the
Flowers, Museum, New York; Spring Flowers,
W. H. Vanderbilt,
ib.—Gaz.
des B. Arts (1875),
xi. 119; Athenæum (1874), i. 835; Hamerton,
French Painters; Larousse; Meyer,
Gesch., 628; Illustr. Zeitg. (1879), i. 315,
321; Claretie, Peintres (1882), i. 49.
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HAMPE, KARL FRIEDRICH, born in
Berlin, July 13, 1772, died there, Dec. 29,
1848. Genre and architecture painter, pupil
of Berlin Academy under Niedlich and
Frisch. Member of the Berlin Academy in
1816, professor in 1823, and inspector and
librarian from 1829. Works: Castle in
Moonlight (1817), Fountain in Gothic Hall
(1819), Luther's Room in Wittenberg (1821),
National Gallery, Berlin.
HÄNDLER, PAUL, born at Altenweddingen,
near Magdeburg, March 16, 1833.
History painter, pupil of Berlin and Düsseldorf
Academies, then in Dresden of Julius
Schnorr; visited Italy in 1859, and afterwards
Paris; lived in Dresden in 1861-67,
and then settled in Berlin, where he is professor
at the Royal Art School. Works: Crucifixion
(1861); Disciples at Emmaus (1862);
Battle at Möckern (1864); Christ bearing the
Cross (1865); Wall Paintings for Church
in Hillersleben (1867); Doubting Thomas
