with Italian Shepherds, Copenhagen Gallery.—Immerzeel, ii. 27; Kramm, iii. 665.
HELMSDORF, FRIEDRICH, born at
Magdeburg in 1784, died at Carlsruhe in
1852. Landscape painter, in 1809 settled
in Strassburg, where he had many pupils;
visited Italy twice, and lived there in 1816-20.
Works: Tasso's Oak; Lake of Nemi.
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HELST, BARTHOLOMEUS VAN DER,
born at Haarlem
(or Dordrecht)
in
1613 (?), died
in Amsterdam,
buried
Dec. 16, 1670.
Dutch school;
portrait
painter,
either studied
under
Frans Hals or took him as his model, and
became one of the greatest portrait painters
of his time. Lived chiefly at Amsterdam,
where in 1654 he and Nicolaas van Helt-Stokade
founded the guild of St. Luke.
His earliest picture is dated 1639. Sometimes
painted sacred and mythological subjects.
Works: Banquet of the Civic Guard
(1648), Syndics of the Arquebusiers (1657),
Portraits of Vice-Admiral Kortenaar, Andries
Bicker, Gerard Bicker, Mary Henrietta
Stuart, Lieutenant-Admiral Van Nes and
Madame Van Nes (1668), Female Portrait
(1646), Male do. (1650), Amsterdam Museum;
The Archers (2, 1639 and 1656),
Hôtel de Ville, Amsterdam; Portrait of Paul
Potter (1654), Hague Museum; Portrait of
a Preacher (1638), two others (1646), Portrait
of Lady and Gentleman (1654), do. of
Daniel Bernard (1669), Rotterdam Museum;
Man with emptied Glass (1649), Oldenburg
Gallery; Aristocratic Young Couple (1661),
Carlsruhe Gallery; Male and Female Portrait,
Man with a Ring (1655), Gotha Museum;
Female Portrait (1655), Weimar Museum;
Male do. (1663), Schwerin Gallery;
do. (2, one dated 1651), Copenhagen Gallery;
Portraits (3, 1642 and 1643), Cassel
Gallery; do. (2), Brunswick Museum; do.
(3, one dated 1654), Dresden Gallery; Portrait
of Admiral Tromp, do. of Prince de
Chabanais, Male (1649) and Female Portrait,
Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dutch Family
at Dinner, Innsbruck Museum; Syndics
of the Arquebusiers (1653, study for
Amsterdam picture), Portrait (1655), do.,
Louvre; Presentation of the Betrothed
(1647), Family Group (1652), New Market
in Amsterdam (1666), Portrait of Govaert
Flinck, Male Portrait (1670), three other
portraits, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portraits
of himself and Wife (1664), Brussels
Museum; German Baron and his Family,
Portrait of a Lady, Historical Society, New
York. Others in Antwerp, Berlin, Geneva,
Stockholm, Vienna, and London Galleries.
By his son and pupil, Lodewyk, is a Portrait
of Admiral Stellingwerf (1670), in the Amsterdam
Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xi.
709; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Bode,
Studien, 112; Burger, ii. 218; Gower, Figure
Painters, 31; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 129;
Scheltema, Amstel's oudheid, i. 159.
HELSTED, AXEL THEOFILUS, born
in Copenhagen, April 11, 1847. Genre
painter, son and pupil of Frederik Ferdinand
Helsted (1809-75), then pupil of Copenhagen
Academy, where he took a medal
in 1864; went in 1869 to Paris, where he
studied under Bonnat, and thence to Italy.
Works: Portrait of Professor Stephens
(1869); do. of the painter Küchler (1878);
From the Villa Borghese (1876); After the
