HENNINGSEN, Charles Frederick, American military officer: b. in England, of Swedish parents, 1815; d. Washington, D. C., 14 June 1877. He joined the Carlists in Spain in 1834, and later was a follower of Kossuth in the Hungarian Revolution. He went to Nica ragua in 1856, where he distinguished himself in the defense of Granada, and in the victory at Queresma. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army, becoming a brigadier general. He directed the construction of the first Minie rifles manufactured in the United States. His publications include 'Eastern Eu• rope' ; Past and Future of Hungry' ; 'Sixty Years Hence' ; 'Personal Recollections of Nica ragua' ; 'The White Slave,' etc.
HENRI,hin'vi, Robert, American painter: b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865. He began his art studies in his native city and became an instruc tor in the Philadelphia School of Design. He has exhibited in Paris, and his picture was purchased by the French government and hangs in the Luxembourg. While in Paris he gathered round him a group of pupils in his studio, and as a landscape and portrait painter did much to impress younger men with his breadth and vigor of style. While he is a land
scape painter of notable attainment, his por traits also are admirable for the power of indi vidualization and the directness which charac terizes them. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design 1906, the Associa tion of American Painters and Sculptors, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. his best-known paintings are 'The Equestrian,' Carnegie Art Institute, Pittsburgh; 'Young Woman in Black,' Art Institute of Chicago; 'Girl with Fan,' Pennsylvania Acad Philadelphia; 'Laughing Girl,' Brooklyn Institute Museum; 'Spanish Gypsy,' Metropoli tan Museum, New York. Other important works are 'The Picador); Little Gypsy' ; portrait of Mrs. W. R. Clarke (1909) • 'The Fish-Market Man' (1910 ; 'La Madrilenite (1912)• 'The Working Man' (1913). In 1914 he exhibited several studies of Irish types. Of these (Himself> and 'Herself' were shown at the Pennsylvania Academy, where the latter received the medal for the best portrait in the exhibition.