Governor Morgan, Dr. C. R. Agnew (1883); Dr. Wyman, Miss Horsford, and others (1885).—Tuckerman, 339.
HEAPHY, THOMAS, born in London,
Dec. 29, 1775, died Nov. 19, 1835. Was
originally a dyer, then an engraver, and
finally devoted himself to water-colour painting;
in 1800 he exhibited two portraits at
the Royal Academy, and became a student
in the Academy schools. In 1804 his first
subject picture, The Portland Fish-Girl, was
well received, and in 1809 his Hastings Fish
Market brought him reputation. He was
one of the earliest members of the old Water
Colour Society, but left it in 1812; and was
one of the founders and the first president
in 1824 of the Society of British Artists, but
withdrew from it in 1829. Visited Italy in
1831, and on his return engaged in the formation
of the new Water Colour Society, of
which he was one of the first members. He
painted miniatures of many distinguished people,
and was portrait painter to the Princess
of Wales. His eldest daughter, Miss Heaphy,
exhibited miniatures at the Royal Academy
from 1822 to 1845; and another daughter,
Elizabeth Heaphy, from 1838 to 1844.
HEAPHY, THOMAS FRANK, born in
1813, died Aug. 7, 1873. History and portrait
painter, son and pupil of Thomas
Heaphy; began as a portrait painter, first
exhibiting at Royal Academy in 1831, but
after 1858 painted chiefly historical pieces.
Member of Society of British Artists. Works:
Mary Magdalen going to the Sepulchre (1846);
Infant Pan educated by Wood Nymphs (1850);
Parting of Catherine and Bianca (1853);
Kepler in Poverty taken for a Fortune-Teller
(1863); Palissy the Potter taken for a
Coiner (1864); Unexpected Inheritance
(1865); Mary Stuart at Tutbury Castle
(1872).
HEARTS ARE TRUMPS, John Everett
Millais, J. H. Secker, London; canvas, H.
5 ft. 4 in. × 7 ft. 5 in. Three English
ladies (Misses Armstrong) seated at a card
table, playing whist with a dummy. Royal
Academy, 1872; painted for Walter Armstrong;
at his sale (1876) 1,300 guineas;
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.
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HÉBERT, (ANTOINE AUGUSTE) ERNEST,
born at Grenoble,
Nov. 3, 1817.
Genre painter, pupil
of David d'Angers
and Paul Delaroche.
Abandoned the law
for painting on account
of the success
of a picture sent to
the Salon, which was
bought by the government.
Won the grand prix de Rome in
1839. Made repeated visits to Italy. His
style is poetical, but often too sentimental.
Medals: 1st class, 1851 and 1855; 2d class,
1867; L. of Honour, 1853; Officer, 1867;
Commander, 1874; Member of Institute,
1874; director of the French School of Art
in Rome from 1866 to 1873, and again in
1885. Works: Tasso in Prison, Cup found
in Benjamin's Sack (1839); Two Odalisques,
Copy of the Sibyl Delphica (1840-41);
Oriental Revery, The Siesta, Almeh, Italian
Priest, Morning in the Woods, Peasant of
Guérande making Butter (1847 and 1848);
La Malaria (1850), Kiss of Judas (1853),
Luxembourg; Crescenza, Fiénaroles, Girls
of Alvito (1855), Rosa Nera at the Fountain;
Girls of Cervaro (1859), Female Portrait,
Luxembourg; Portrait of Princess Marie
Clotilde, Street in Cervaro (1861); Young
Girl at the Well (1863), Empress Eugénie;
Pasqua Maria (1863), Baroness James de
Rothschild; Black Pearl, Type of Italian
Woman (1866); Adam and Eve driven from
Paradise (1867); Pastorella, Lavandaia
(1869); Morning and Evening of Life (1870);
Popular Italian Muse (1872); Madonna de
Délivrance, Church at Grenoble; do., Study,
Mrs. Mary J. Morgan's Collection, New
York; Madonna
Addolorata; Woman
Knitting
(1873); Muse of the Woods (1877); The
Sultana (1879); Saint Agnes (1881); Little