HOVENDEN, THOMAS (1840-1895), American artist was born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland, on Dec. 28, 1840. He was a pupil of the South Kensington Art Schools and those of the National Academy of Design, New York, whither he had removed in 1863. Subsequently he studied under Cabanel in Paris and spent much time in Brittany, where he painted many pictures of the peasantry. Returning to America in 1880, he became an academician in 1882, and attracted attention by an important canvas of "The Last Moments of John Brown" (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art). His "Breaking Home Ties," a picture of American farm life, was engraved with considerable popular success. Hovenden was mortally injured in a heroic effort to save a child from a railroad train between his home at Plymouth Meeting and Norristown, Pa., and died at Norristown on Aug. 14, 1895. Among his works are :—"News from the Conscript" (1877), "Loyalist Peasant Soldier of La Vendee" (1879). "A Breton Interior," "Image Seller" and "Jerusalem the Golden" (in the Metropolitan Museum of Art).