Jan van Hellemont (1650-1719?); went early to Brussels, and there painted many pictures for churches, in which the decline of the school of Antwerp after Rubens is apparent. Works: Martyrdom of St. Barbara, St. Mary Magdalen's, Brussels; Triumph of David, St. Michael's, ib.; Elijah sacrificing before the Priests of Baal, Carmelites, ib.; Christ on the Cross, Ghent Museum; Peasants at Cards, Male Portrait (1724), Darmstadt Museum; Dentist in his Office, Augsburg Gallery; Priest distributing Bread and Wine, Modena Gallery.—Descamps, iii. 188; Michiels, x. 403; Rooses (Reber), 440; Van den Branden, 1171.
HELLEN, KARL VON DER, born in
Bremen, May 10, 1843. Landscape painter,
pupil in Düsseldorf of Oswald Achenbach,
then studied in Munich, and in 1864-68
in Carlsruhe under Gude, 1869 in Paris,
1870 in Rome, and in 1871 settled in Düsseldorf.
Works: Wood Interior; Landscape
in Black Forest; North German
Landscape; Evening in Italy.—Müller,
247.
HELLQVIST, KARL GUSTAF, born in
Kungsör in 1851. History painter, pupil
of Stockholm Academy and of M. T. Lefebvre
in Paris; received a medal for one
of his first pictures; lives now in Munich.
Honourable mention, Paris. Instructor at
Berlin Academy, January, 1886. Works:
Ebba Brahe writing on the Window-Pane;
Gustavus Vasa accusing Bishop Sonnanväder
of High Treason; Opprobrious Entry of Peder
Sonnanväder and Master Knut into Stockholm
(1870), New York Museum; Louis XI.
and Tristan at Plessis-les-Tours; Death of
Sten Stures; The Last Friend (1876); Ransom
of Town of Visby by King Waldemar
of Denmark in 1361 (1883); Snow Effect in
Tyrolese Mountains, On a Bench in the
Woods, Portrait of Professor Thiersch
(1884); Idyl, Swedish Peasant, At the Harbor
of Wolgast, June 15, 1633 (1885).—Müller,
248; Illustr. Zeitg. (1883), ii. 11;
D. illustr. Zeitg., iii. 527; Zeitsch., xviii.
274; xx. 116.
HELLRATH, EMIL, born at Rees, Westphalia,
in 1839. Landscape painter, pupil
in Düsseldorf Academy of Oswald Achenbach,
then visited Munich and Dresden;
lived for some time in Amsterdam, and in
1863 settled in Munich. Works: Landscape
in Rain; On Lake Chiem; Convent
Pond; Landscape at Early Morning; View
in Quarries near Polling; Road to Convent,
Johnston sale, New York, 1876, $1,275.—Müller,
248.
HELLWEGER, FRANZ, born at St. Lorenz,
Tyrol, Sept. 7, 1812, died in Innsbruck,
Feb. 15, 1880. History painter, pupil of
Munich Academy under Clemens Zimmermann
and Heinrich Hess. In 1843 passed
eight months in Rome, then returned to
Munich, where he assisted Cornelius in the
frescos in St. Louis' Church, and afterwards
Steinle in the Cathedral of Cologne, and
Schraudolph in the Cathedral of Speyer.
In 1856 he settled in Innsbruck. Works:
Death of Mary, and three other altarpieces,
Brunneck, Tyrol; Madonna, St. Ann, Parish
Church, Innsbruck; Baptism of Christ, Scapulary
Festival, Flight into Egypt, Male Portraits
(2), Innsbruck Museum; St. Catherine,
Fathers of the Church, Ischl, Upper
Austria.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xi. 699; Kunst-Chronik,
xv. 371; Wurzbach, viii. 237.
HELLWIG, THEODOR, born at Halberstadt
in 1815. Genre and portrait painter,
pupil in Berlin of Menzel, Franz Krüger,
and Magnus; paints scenes from time of
Louis XIV. and XV. in the manner of Watteau,
and from peasant life of his native
country. Works: Rendezvous; Children
at a Fountain; Serenade under the Doorway.—Müller,
248.
HELMBREKER, THEODORUS, born in
Haarlem in 1624, died in Rome in 1694.
Dutch school; history and genre painter,
pupil of Pieter de Grebber, went to Venice,
afterwards to Rome, where he was employed
by Cardinal de Medici. Works: Temptation
of Christ; Christ bearing the Cross;
Christ before Pilate; Christ Crucified; Franciscan
Monks distributing Food; Pilgrim
