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RYCKAERT, MARTEN, born in Antwerp, Dec. 8, 1587, died there, Oct. 28, 1631. Flemish school; landscape painter, son and pupil of David Ryckaert, the eldest (I., 1560-1607); seems to have continued his studies under Tobias Verhaegt, and then went to Italy, whence he returned in 1611, and was received into the guild. He had only one arm. A masterly portrait of him, by Van Dyck, is in the Dresden Museum. Works: Rocky Landscape (1616), Madrid Museum; Falls of Tivoli, Uffizi, Florence.—Rooses (Reber), 401; Van den Branden, 604.

RYCKERE, BERNAARD DE, born at Courtray about 1535, died in Antwerp, Jan. 1, 1590. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, received into guild of Antwerp in 1561. Works: Descent of the Holy Ghost, Creation of Adam, Apparition of the Holy Ghost at Baptism of Christ, St. Salvator and St. Martin (1587), St. Martin's, Courtray. His son and pupil, Abraham (baptized July 5, 1566, died in 1599), was an artist of great promise, whose portraits of Donors (1591) in St. James's, Antwerp, and in the Museum, ib., may be ranked with the best productions of the 16th century.—Kramm, v. 1422; Rooses (Reber), 107; Van den Branden, 331.

RYDBERG, GUSTAF FREDRIK, born at Malmö, Sweden, Sept. 13, 1835. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen (1852-57) and Stockholm (1857-59) Academies, then in Düsseldorf of Gude; returned to Stockholm, visited Norway in 1868 in the suite of King Charles XV., and Düsseldorf in 1873. Works: Spring Landscape, View near Mörrum, and others, Stockholm Museum.

RYDER, ALBERT, born in New Bedford, Mass., March 19, 1847. Landscape and figure painter, pupil of William E. Marshall, engraver and artist, and of the National Academy. Visited London, Paris, and Holland in 1877, and Spain, Italy, and Germany in 1882. Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works: Wandering Cow; Landscape—Spring; Curfew Hour; Pegasus; Two Lovers; Farm-Yard; Lovers' Boat; Chase; Lowing Cow; Nourmahal; Landscape with Figures (1881); Landscape (1882), Erwin Davis; do. (1883); The Waste of Waters is their Field (1884), D. Cottier, New York; Little Maid of Arcady (1886).

RYDER, PLATT POWELL, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 11, 1821. Genre painter, pupil of Léon Bonnât in Paris, in 1869-70; studied in Belgium and Holland. Elected an A.N.A. in 1869. Studio in New York. Works: Life's Evening, T. B. Clarke, New York; Spinning, An Interior (1879); Farewell (1880); Spinning-Wheel (1881); Reading the Cup (1882); Welcome Step (1883); Warming Up, Washing Day, Clean Shave, Bill of Fare (1884); The Fireside (1885); Watching and Waiting (1886).

RYSBRACK, PEETER, born in Antwerp, April 25, 1655, died at Brussels in 1729. Flemish school; landscape painter, pupil of Philips Augustyn Immenraet (1627-79), became master of the guild in 1673, went to London in 1675, then to Paris, where he studied under Francisque Millet, and whence he had returned to Antwerp in 1687; shortly after 1719 he settled at Brussels. Many of his pictures have been sold as by Poussin. Landscapes of a grandiose and melancholy character; execution firm and bold. Specimens in Museums and Galleries of Antwerp, Bamberg, Aschaffenburg, Hamburg, Schleissheim, and Stuttgart. In the Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna, is a Wood Landscape with Diana and Hunting Train (1716), by Ludovicus Rysbraeck.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 345; Siret (1883), 237; Van den Branden, 1079.