Herkomer

Hubert, an English painter; born in Waal, Bavaria, May 26, 1849. At an early age he settled with his parents in the United States and subsequently in England. He joined the Institute of Painters in Water Colors in 1871. His oil picture, “ After the Toil of Day,” in the Academy exhibition of 1873, was followed by his “ Last Muster,” which gained him the “ grand medal of honor” at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. He founded the Herkomer School of Art at Bushey in 1883, Hermannstadt, a town of Hungary, formerly capital of Transylvania, 370 miles S. E. of Pest. It consists of an upper and a lower town, the walls, towers and bastions formerly surrounding which have only recently been demolished. Hermannstadt was originally the seat of a German colony, founded in the reign of Gesa IT. (1141-1161), and was at first called Villa Hermanni. It endured sever a! sieges from the Turks (14388 anc 1442), as well as one from the fol. lowers of John Zapolya (1526). It also suffered at the hands of Gabrie' Bathori in 1610, and again from bott combatants during the Ru o-Hungarian War of 1849. Pop. 21,465.