HAMLET (1779-1808). Label on a portrait painted on glass of His Serene
Highness Count Beaujolais, brother to Louis Philippe of Orleans,
afterwards King of France, “done for the Parry family, Bath, April,
1807.” His addresses are 12, Union Street, on a portrait of Princess
Sophia in the Wellesley collection, and 17, Union Passage.
HANKS, MASTER. Silhouettist mentioned in the Catalogue of the Exhibition
of the Maryland Society of Colonial Dames of America, held January, 1911.
The name occurs on a silhouette of Miss Henrietta Moffet, belonging to
Mr. and Mrs. Whitbridge.
HARDING, Henry Street, London (Foster & Harding, London). Cut in paper by
Mr. Harding “on the silhouette of Mr. Lawless, Irish Agitator,” in the
National Portrait Gallery.
HAYD, H. Painted silhouettes.
HEINEMANS. Cut silhouette of Goëthe, about 1763.
HEINRICH, ERNST (1792-1862). Cut the portrait of Countess Salm Proshan;
also painted silhouettes.
HENNING, C. D. Born 1734. Engraver, painter, and silhouettist.
HENSEL, F. and C. Cut twelve silhouettes to illustrate “Grimm’s Fairy
Tales,” published in a book entitled “Lus Märchenland.”
HENVE, HENRY, 12, Cheapside. Label on silhouette owned by Mr. Wellesley.
HERBERT, M., of Geneva. In 1761 Horace Walpole writes to Sir Horace
Mann and asks him to thank the Duchess of Grafton on his behalf for the
découpure of herself, “her figure cut out in card by M. Herbert, of
Geneva.”
HERVÉ. “Artist, 172, Oxford Street,” on cut paper silhouette of a lady in
early Victorian dress. It is painted in gold. Owner: E. Jackson.
HESSELL, L. H. (1757), St. Petersburg. Painter of silhouettes and copper
engraver. Invented a machine to take silhouettes by daylight.
HOERING. German.
HOWIE. Painted the silhouette of Gilbert Burns, brother of Robert Burns,
now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
HUBARD, MASTER (1833). Began to cut silhouettes at the age of twelve.
Label on portrait of Princess Victoria when a little girl. He also
painted in Indian ink touched with gold. The Hubard Gallery was at
109, Strand. When seventeen years of age he landed in New York, and
itinerated in the United States for many years, charging fifty cents for
his silhouettes. A full-length portrait of a man, in the possession of
the author, has “Hubard Gallery” embossed in the corner of the cardboard
mount. Cut with scissors without drawing or machine at the Gallery of
Cutting and Philharmonic Concert Room. This is the silhouette of John
Grey Park, of Groton, Mass.: “cut in 1824” is on one of his figures.
Hubard also visited Boston, and worked at the Exchange Coffee House. XLV.
HUBERT. Cutter of two silhouette portraits of Voltaire _en deshabille_,
published in _Illustrated London News_, June 9th, 1860.
HÜBNER (1797). On a fine painted silhouette of a child with long hair,
belonging to Madame Nossof, Moscow. LIX.
HULM. Eighteenth century. Signature on silhouette scarf-pin, metal.
HUNT, MRS. LEIGH. Cut Byron’s silhouette. LI.
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