HONDT, hinut, HOND, or HONDIUS. A Flemish family of and engravers. Jo noct's nr .lossr: (1540-16111 was born at Waek en. To avoid the troubles in the Netherlands, then in the throes of the War with Spain, he went. to England and beeanie an engraver of maps and a maker of matheinatival instruments. llte also engraved scene portraits, such as those of Queen Elizabeth. Henry 1V., Drake, and ('avendish; some plates for'lereator's A Ilos .11cejor 111305), and other lle often added to his signature the figure of a clog, in allusion to his seen, IIENIntIK I called the Younger, w:es horn in London. Ile was also an engraver. and is said to have executed many plates, hut leis works are confused with t hose of another Hen drick 1 remelt (1:i73-111481, born at 1),Itm in Bra bant, the son of William Horan, and a pupil of .Tan Wierix. The first named opined a studio at The Hague, and during fifty years produced plates, inelueling a series of portraits of the great reformers. NVyclif. Knox. ('alvin,
and Savonarola, and a series of painters, besides genre and historical subject..—.1neether Homer ( 100 I .e. I 6321 was t he son of Hendrick (1573.1(i481. Ile was born at The Hague. and is said to have been Court painter to Ladish). TV.. King of Poland. His works include a portrait of the King. and a moneber of engraved portraits after N'an Dyek and others. notably one of himself after that master.—AIIIIA HAM ( 103S-95), a paint er and engraver, was horn at Rotterdam. Ile was the grandson of .Tealocus or :fosse Ilona. and was known especially as a painter of dog•. Ile went to London while very young, and under II. acquired a great reputation for leis studies of the chase. Ile also painted tondo-light SeelleS, and left some rare water-colors, There is a "11 ild Boar ley him in the .1Ietropolitan :Museum of Art, New York City.