Hildebrndt ,.I. Ferdinand Theodor, a German painter, born in Stettin; July 2, 1804. He studied under Wilhelm Schadow at Berlin, with whom in 1826 he went to Dusseldorf, and in 1830 to Italy, finally taking up his residence at Dusseldorf, where he became professor. His works include examples in historical, religious, and genre art. Scenes from poetry, especially from Shakespeare, are his favorite subjects. Among his pictures are: "Faust" (1825), "Cordelia and King Lear," for which Devirent sat as a model (1826), "Romeo and Juliet" (1827), "Clorinda" (1828), "The Robbers" (1829), "Judith and Holofernes" (1830), "The Soldier and his Child" (1832), "The Children of King Edward" (1835), "Othello before the Doge of Venice" (1848), "Juliet taking the Draught" (1853), and "Cordelia reading the Letter to Kent" (1859). Among his later works are illustrations of Uhland and designs from German ballads. He has also painted many portraits, those of old men being especially admired. He has been styled the first colorist of the Dusseldorf school. II. Eduard, a German landscape and genre painter, born in Dantzic, Sept. 9, 1817, died in Berlin, Oct. 25, 1868. He was a pupil of Isabey, and in 1843 gained the first prize at the Paris exhibition.

He then took up his residence in Berlin, and became professor in the academy of art. Among his numerous pictures, of which aerial effects are the predominant characteristic, are scenes in North and South America, the Pyrenees, the Canaries, Madeira, the Orient, the Alpine regions, and the extreme north of Europe. He illustrated a hall in the Sans Souci palace with scenes from the Holy Land.