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RUMP, CHRISTIAN GOTTFRED, born
at Hillerod, Dec. 8, 1816, died at Frederiksborg,
May 25, 1880.
Landscape painter,
pupil of Copenhagen
Academy under Lund;
painted at first history
and portraits, visited
Norway in 1855-56,
and Germany in 1856-1857;
became member
of Copenhagen
Academy in 1866, and
professor in 1874. Works: Presentation
in the Temple (1842); Heath in Jutland
(1849); View in Säbygaards Forest (1854);
Norö Valley (1856); Four Seasons (1864);
Turf Pit near Frederiksborg (1848), Morning
in a Forest, ib. (1851), Forest Stream in
Jutland (1854), View of Skaergård Reefs,
Sweden (1855), Woodland near Frederiksborg
(1860), Landscape, ib. (1879), Winter
Scene (1880), Copenhagen Gallery.—Sig.
Müller, 301; Weilbach, 595.
RUMPF, PHILIPP, born in Frankfort,
Dec. 19, 1831. Genre painter, pupil of Städel
Institute in Frankfort under Rustige;
visited Munich, Dresden, Paris, and North
Italy, and settled at Kronberg, near Frankfort.
Works: Poor Flower Girl; Ladies in
a Park; Young Lady Artist; Mother and
Child.—Kaulen, 306; Muller, 453.
RUMPLER, FRANZ, born at Tachau,
Bohemia, in 1848. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under
Engerth; is compared, by prominent Vienna
art critics, to Knaus. His portraits are
in the manner of the old Dutch masters.
Professor in Vienna. Works: Goose Herd;
Morning Prayers, Evening Prayers (1871);
Little Patient; At Grandmother's (1873);
Secret Treasure; Good Friendship, T. A.
Havemeyer, New York; In the Park; Flowers
and Pearls (1876); Leisure Hours (1879);
Neapolitan Woman's Head, Woman from
Dachau, Only Scholar in the Family (1883).—Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 509; Zeitschr. f. b.
K., xiii. 353; xv. 332.
RUNCIMAN, ALEXANDER, born in Edinburgh,
in 1736, died there, Oct. 21, 1785.
History painter, pupil of Foulis's Academy,
Glasgow; went about 1766 to Rome and
studied five years, painting there his large
picture—Nausicaä at Play with her Maidens.
Returning in 1772, he settled the next
year in Edinburgh, where he was appointed
manager to the Trustees' Academy. He
decorated the great hall of Pennicuik with
scenes from Ossian, and painted The Prodigal
Son, Cymon and Iphigenia, Sigismunda
weeping over the Heart of Guiscardo, and
other works. His brother, John (1744-66),
an artist of much promise, accompanied
him to Italy and died at Naples; in the
National Gallery, Edinburgh, are by him:
Flight into Egypt, King Lear in the
Storm, and Portrait of a Youth.—Redgrave;
F. de Conches, 305; Ch. Blanc, École
anglaise.
RUNK, FERDINAND, born at Freiburg,
in the Breisgau, in 1746, died in Vienna in
1834. Landscape painter; made himself
known through a fine cycle of eight paintings,
in which, by light effects, colour, and
reproduction of forms on the surface of
earth and water, and of the vegetation, he
represented the progress of nature from
the highest ice-peak down to the sea-coast.
Other works: View of the Glurnser Valley
in Tyrol, Museum, Vienna; do. in a Park,
Harrach Gallery, ib.
RUSS, KARL, born in Vienna, May 10,
1779, died there, Sept. 19, 1843. History
painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under
Maurer; was afterwards much influenced by
Eberhard Wächter, and in 1818 became
custodian of the Belvedere. Works: Tiresias
predicting Future of Hercules; Philip
of Macedonia rescued by his Son (1805);
Carità romana (1806); Hecuba bewailing
her Children, Vienna Museum; Christoph
von Liechtenstein recognized by his Shield,
Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.;
thirty-seven pictures from
Austrian History.—N. Necrol. d. D. (1843),
832; Wurzbach, xxvii. 277.