HERKOMER, SIR HUBERT VON British painter, was born at Waal, in Bavaria on May 26, 1849, and eight years later was brought to England by his father, a wood carver of great ability. He lived for some time at Southampton and in the school of art there began his art training; in 1866 he entered upon a course of study at the South Kensington Schools, and in 1869 exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy. By his picture, "The Last Muster," at the Academy in 1875, he established his position as an artist of high distinction. He was elected A.R.A. in 1879, and R.A. in 189o; an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1893, and a full member in 1894; and in 1885 he was appointed Slade professor at Oxford. He achieved marked success as a worker in enamel, as an etcher, mezzotint engraver and illustrative draughtsman; and he exercised wide influence upon art education by means of the Herkomer School (Incorporated), at Bushey, which he founded in 1883 and directed gratuitously until 1904, when he retired. Three of his pictures, "Found" (1885), "The Chapel of the Charterhouse" (1889) and "The Council of the Royal Academy, 1907" are in the National Gallery of British Art. In the year 1907 he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. at Oxford, and a knighthood was conferred upon him by the king in addition to the commandership of the Royal Victorian Order. He died at Budleigh Salterton on March 31, See A. L. Baldry, Hubert von Herkomer, R.A. (19o1) ; W. L. Courtney, Professor Hubert Herkomer, Royal Academician, His Life and Work (1892) ; J. Saxon Mills, Life and Letters of Sir H. Herkomer (1923) ; and his autobiographical writings: My School and My Gospel (1908), and The Herkomers (Iwo).