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HUCHTENBURG, JOHAN VAN. 



HUET, PETER DANIEL. 



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Country;' and in 1S51 a three-volume novel called ' Madam Dorrington 

 of the Dene.' During a portion of this period he was connected, rather 

 injuriously for his fortune, with the 'People's Journal,' a weekly 

 periodical of literature and social topics. The journal was started in 

 April 1846, and Mr. Howitt became first a contributor and eventually 

 part-proprietor of it. Differences with the editor and co-partner led 

 Mr. Howitt to withdraw, and to set up a rival periodical called 

 ' Ho itt's Journal,' of which three volumes were published. Neither 

 periodical proved permanently successful. In June 1852 Mr. Howitt, 

 in a spirit of blended adventure and historical and literary curiosity, 

 set out, with two of his sons, and in company with other friends, for 

 Australia. He remained there for upwards of two years, visiting 

 Melbourne (where he had a brother settled as a physician), Sydney, 

 and several of the ' diggings,' and undergoing mauy hardships in his 

 practical experience as a digger, and in hU journeys through the wilds. 

 He formed very decided opinions as to the vices of the government 

 system of management in the colony, particularly the system of refusing 

 to let out land in moderate quantities. To this he traced many evils 

 attending emigration to Australia as compared with emigration to 

 America. While in Australia Mr. Howitt wrote ' A Boy's Adventures 

 iu the Wilds of Australia' (1854) ; and since his return to England in 

 December 1354, he has given to the world, in a more elaborate form, 

 the results of his observations of the colony, in a work in two volumes, 

 entitled ' Land, Labour, and Gold ; or, Two Years in Victoria, with 

 Visits to Sydney and Van Diemeu's Land,' 1855. During her hus- 

 band's absence, Mrs. Howitt continued her ' Library for the Young ' 

 and her contributions to periodicals ; and in the important work on 

 ' The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe,' published in 1852 

 iu the joint names of herself and her husband, perhaps the most 

 considerable portion is hers. 



It was also during Mr. Howitt's absence in Australia that his 

 daughter, Miss ANNE MAUY HOWITT, who had by that time, in the 

 course of her education as an artist, given proofs of the possession of 

 an inherited talent likely to display itself in the department of art, 

 proved the same talent likewise in literature by publishing her work 

 entitled ' The Art-Student in Munich ' (1853). Miss Howitt has 

 subsequently exhibited one or two paintings, which have attracted 

 much notice. 



HUCHTENBURG, JOHAN VAN, a celebrated Dutch battle- 

 painter, was born at Haarlem in 1646. He studied with Vander- 

 meuleu at Paris, and etched some of his designs. In 1708 or 1709 he 

 was commissioned by Prince Eugene to point the series of battles 

 which he and the Duke of Marlborough had gained together. Huch- 

 tenburg himself made etchings of these battles in copper : they were 

 published at the Hague in 1725. His pictures are much in the style 

 of Wouverman, and are scarcely inferior to the works of that master. 

 He lived chiefly at the Hague, but died at Amsterdam in 1733. (Van 

 Ltoul, Nieuwc Xchouburg, Jie.) 



HUDSON, HENKY, is eminent among those early navigators who 

 sought a shorter passage to China than the circuitous route round the 

 Cape of Good Hope. Nothing is known of him before 1607, when he 

 wa employed by some London merchants to command a ship fitted 

 out to prosecute that object In that year he advanced along the 

 eastern coasts of Greenland beyond the 80th degree of. latitude before 

 he was stopped by the ice. In 1608 he kept more to the east, and in 

 a lower latitude ; but he was unable to get to the eastward of Nova 

 Zembla. In 16U9 he tried again the north-eastern route ; and being 

 again unsuccessful, bore away for America, along the coast of which 

 he ran down as far as Chesapeake Bay, whence he returned to England. 

 Not yet discouraged, and still finding persons willing to adventure their 

 money in the lottery of maritime discovery, he undertook a fourth 

 voyage, in hopes of discovering a north-western passage, in April 

 1610. In the course of June and July he sailed through the Strait, 

 and discovered the Bay, both of which have since been called after 

 his name, and hoped for a time that the much coveted object was 

 attained; but finding that great inland sea to be but a bay, he 

 resolved to winter in the southern part of it, hoping to pursue his 

 discoveries .in the spring. The insufficiency of provisions however 

 exposed him and his companions to great hardship, and at last proved 

 fatal to his scheme. The men became discontented and insubordinate; 

 Hudson on the other hand seems to have lost his temper ; and at last, 

 while they were in the Strait on the voyage home, some of the boldest 

 of the mutineers seized the captain and eight of his staunchest 

 followers, and sent them adrift iu an open boat, and they were never 

 afterwards heard of. It may give a juster notion of the hardihood of 

 these old sailor', to know that in his first voyage his crew consisted of 

 ten men and a boy ; his last and largest ship's complement was only 

 twenty-three men. For an account of his adventures, see Purchas's 

 ' Pilgrims,' and Harris's ' Voyages.' He has a full article iu the ' Biog. 

 Britann.' 



HUDSON, JOHN, D.D., was born at Wedehop in Cumberland, 

 about the year 1662. He entered the University of Oxford in 1676, 

 took the degree of M.A. in 1634, and was soon afterwards elected a 

 Fellow of University College, of which he was tutor for many years. 

 In 1701 he was appointed priucipal librarian of the Bodleian Library; 

 and in 1712, principal of St. Mary's Hall. He died on the 27th of 

 November 171'.'. 

 Hudson published editions, with critical notes, of several of the 



classical authors, namely, Velleius Paterculus, 1693, 1711; Thucy- 

 dides, 1696; 'Geographic Veteris Scriptores Grseci Minores,' witli 

 notes aud dissertations by Dodwell, 4 vole. 8vo, 1698-1712 ; Dionysiua 

 of Halicarnassus, 2 vols. fol., 1704 ; Longiuus, 1710, 1718 ; ' Moeris 

 Atticista,' 1712; ^Esop's 'Fables,' 1718; Josephus, 2 vols. fol., 1720, 

 which was printed as far as the fourth index under the author's own 

 superintendence ; the last few pages were edited by his friend Hall, 

 who has prefixed to the work a short account of the life aud writings 

 of Hudson. 



HUDSON, THOMAS, was born in Devonshire in 1701. He came 

 to London and became the pupil of Richardson the painter, and 

 married his daughter. After the death of Gervas and Richardson, 

 Hudson was the most successful portrait-painter in London, and, not- 

 withstanding the rivalry of Vanloo and Liotard, he enjoyed the chief 

 business in portrait-painting until the return of his pupil Reynolds 

 from Italy, when, though he professed not to admire his pupil's inno- 

 vation in portraiture, he gave up business and retired to his villa at 

 Twickenham. Northcote describes an interview between Hudson and 

 Reynolds in 1752, soon after the return of the latter from Italy, 

 though he does not vouch for the fact : Hudson called on Reynolds to 

 see a much-talked-of head of a boy with a Turkish head-dress it was 

 the portrait of the Italian boy Marchi, whom Reynolds had brought 

 with him from Italy ; " perceiving," says Northcote, " no trace of his 

 own manner left, Hudson exclaimed, ' By God, Reynolds, you don't 

 paint so well as when you left England ! ' " Hudson himself had also 

 just returned from Italy : he visited Rome, together with Roubiliac. 

 He entered Italy as Reynolds wits leaving it, and the rising and setting 

 stars of portraiture in England met on Mount Ceuis in their passage 

 over the Alps. 



There is little to be said in commendation of Hudson's style : he 

 was of the Kneller school ; he made fair transcripts of his models, 

 with little variety of posture, and not much more of costume. His 

 masterpiece is the family piece of Charles duke of Marlborough, now 

 in the hall at Blenheim. Many of his works were engraved in mezzo- 

 tint by the younger John Faber. A portrait of Handel by Hudson in 

 the Picture Gallery at Oxford is said to be the only portrait that the 

 great composer ever sat for. There is a portrait by Hudson of Arch- 

 bishop Potter in the same collection. Hudson was rich and contented. 

 He had at his villa at Twickenham a good collection of cabinet 

 pictures and drawings by great masters ; many of the latter were 

 purchased at the sale of Richardson's excellent collection. He sur- 

 vived Richardson's daughter, aud married Mrs. Fiennes, a lady of 

 fortune, and to her he bequeathed his villa. He died iu January 

 1779. 



HUERTA, VICENTE GARCIA, DE LA, was born in 1729, at 

 Zafra in Estremadura. Actuated both by -national and academic 

 pride, he became, through his numerous poetical effusions, the suc- 

 cessful leader of that reaction which in the middle of the last century 

 took place in Spain against the exotic Gallic school, which had been 

 imported with its new dynasty, and was headed by his able adversary 

 Luzan. The reputation of his fine tragedy, ' La Raquel,' which is a 

 far superior composition to the short poem of the preceding century, 

 with the same title, by Ulloa Pereyra, soon extended even to Italy, 

 into which language it was translated, and where it was performed iu 

 1780 at the theatre Zannoni of Bologna. It has however undergone 

 the severest criticism of Bouterwek and others, who iu other respects 

 highly commend the author. Huerta died at Madrid iu 1797. Besides 

 another inferior tragedy, partly taken from the ' Electra ' of Sophocles, 

 'Agamemnon vengado,' he published ' Vocabulario Militar Espanol,' 

 which portrays the great Spanish captains ; ' Obras Poeticas,' 2 vols. 

 8vo ; and a classical selection out of the amazing store of Spanish 

 dramas, which he entitled ' Theatro Hespanol,' 16 vols. 8vo. 



Huerta must not be confounded with his brother Pedro, the 

 laborious author of the ' Commentaries de la Pintura Encdustica del 

 Pinccl,' and of 'De las Lineas de Apeles y Protogenes ; ' nor with 

 another academician, Francisco Manuel de Huerta, one of the three 

 editors of the ' Diario de los Literatos de Espana ; ' nor with Lopez 

 de la Huerta, who wrote the 'Exameu de la Posibilidad de Fijar los 

 Sinouimos de la Lengua Castellana.' 



HUET, PETER DANIEL, Bishop of Avranches, was born at Caen 

 on the 8th of February 1630. He was originally intended for the 



1652 he accompanied Bochart to Sweden, and was solicited by the 

 queen to settle in her dominions. This offer however he refused, and 

 returned to France, where he acquired so great a reputation that he 

 was appointed in 1670 subtutor to the Dauphin. During the next 

 twenty years he was principally engaged in superintending the publica- 

 tion of the edition of the classics which is usually known by the name 

 of ' In usum Delphini." The first idea of this edition was started by 

 the Due de Moutauaier; but we are indebted to Huet for the plan and 

 arrangement of the work. In 1674 he was elected a member of the 

 French academy; and having taken orders in 1676, at the age of 

 forty-six years, he was appointed to the abbey of Aunay near Caen, 

 where he composed the greater part of his works. In 1 685 he was 

 made Bishop of Avranches, but was not consecrated till 1692, iu 

 consequence of some disputes between the pope and the French govern- 



