- pole, National Portrait Gallery, London.—Redgrave;
F. de Conches, 85; Sandby, i. 94.
HAYON, LÉON ALBERT, born in Paris,
Nov. 16, 1840. Genre and portrait painter,
pupil of Léon Benonville, Picot, and Pils.
Medal, 3d class, 1883. Works: After the
Harvest, La Cigale (1876); Corner in Faubourg,
St. Honoré (1877); The Gleaners
(1879); Dindonnette (1880); Fowl-Plucker
(1881); The Day is Done (1882); Return
from Market (1883); Mother Madeleine,
Old Age's Staff (1884); Birthday (1885).—Bellier,
i. 747.
HAYS, WILLIAM JACOB, born in New
York, Aug. 8, 1830, died there in 1875.
Animal painter, pupil in drawing of J. R.
Smith, New York; went in 1860 to the head-*waters
of the Missouri to paint the fauna of
that region; afterwards visited Nova Scotia
and the northern parts of the United States
to study wild animals in their homes.
Works: Herd of Bisons (1861); The Stampede,
Prairie-Dog Village (1862); Bison Bull
at Bay (1865); Bull Moose of Nova Scotia
(1867); Prairie on Fire (1869); Bouquet of
Orchids (1871); Herd of Caribou (1871);
Mule Deer (1872).
HAYTER, Sir GEORGE, born in London,
Dec. 17, 1792, died there, Jan. 18,
1871. History and portrait painter, son
and pupil of Charles Hayter, portrait painter;
also student of Royal Academy; won at
British Institution in 1815 a prize of £200
for his prophet Ezra. Went soon after to
Rome, where he studied till 1819, when he
returned to London; visited Italy again in
1826, returned in 1831 via Paris, where he
painted portraits of many prominent persons.
In 1816 he was appointed miniature
painter to Princess Charlotte, in 1837 portrait
painter to Queen Victoria, in 1841 historical
painter to Her Majesty, and in 1842
was knighted. Member of Academies of
Rome, Florence, Bologna, Parma, and Venice.
Works: Venus complaining to Mars
(1820); Trial of Lord William Russell
(1825), Woburn Abbey; Trial of Queen
Caroline; Meeting of First Reformed Parliament,
National Portrait Gallery; Coronation
of Queen Victoria; Christening of
Prince of Wales, The Queen; Angels ministering
to Christ (1849), South Kensington
Museum; Joseph interpreting the Chief
Baker's Dream; Three Daughters of Edward
Earl of Derby, Knowsley Hall.
HEADE, MARTIN J., born in Bucks
County, Pa.; contemporary. Landscape
painter; studied two years in Italy, and
sketched in South America. During a visit
to Brazil he received the decoration of Chevalier
of the Order of the Rose from the Emperor.
His Brazilian sketches, originally
intended for a book on South American
Humming-Birds, are now owned by Sir
Morton Peto, London. Has lived and painted
in the Western States and in Boston.
Studio in New York. Works: Point Judith;
Off the California Coast (1876); South
American Scene, High Tide on the Marshes,
Apple-Blossoms, Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland;
Nicaragua, Fairman Rogers, Philadelphia;
Sunset—Passamaquoddy Bay (1884).
HEALY, GEORGE PETER ALEXANDER,
born in Boston, Mass., July 15, 1808.
Portrait and history painter, studied in Paris
from 1836; went to Chicago about 1858,
and painted portraits; revisited Europe in
1869 and resided long in Rome. Exhibits
at Paris Salon and at National Academy,
New York, of which he is an honorary member.
Studio in Paris, France (1885). Medals:
Paris, 3d class, 1840; 2d class, 1855.
Ideal works: Franklin urging the Claims
of the American Colonies before Louis XVI.
(1855); Webster's Reply to Hayne, Faneuil
Hall, Boston. Portraits: Marshal Soult;
M. Guizot; Pius IX. (1871); Lord Lyons,
Thiers, E. B. Washburne, Princess of Roumania
(1876); General Grant (1878); Webster;
Clay; Calhoun; Guyot, Smithsonian
Institute, Washington; Guizot (1841), Presidents
John Tyler (2), John Quincy Adams,
Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Polk,
Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Corcoran Gallery,
Washington; William H. Seward,
State Library, Albany; Cardinal McCloskey,
