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CYCLOPEDIA
OF
Painters and Paintings.
RAAB, GEORG, born in Vienna in 1821,
died there, Dec. 31, 1885. Portrait,
figure, and miniature painter, pupil
of Vienna Academy; worked in 1841-46 in
Pesth; visited Munich, and settled in Vienna,
where he has had great success with
ideal figures and heads, and for many years
was the favourite portrait painter of the
Imperial family and high aristocracy. A
collection of his works was exhibited by the
Austrian Art Union in April, 1886. Works:
Deborah (1858); The Maiden (1862); Mignon
(1869), Empress of Austria; Lady
with White Veil, Vienna Museum; Portraits
of Emperor and Empress (38) of Austria,
Crown Prince Rudolf, Archdukes and
Archduchesses, etc.—Allgem. K. C., x. 13,
298, 317; Wurzbach, xxiv. 157.
RABBIT ON THE WALL, Sir David
Wilkie, Sir William G. Armstrong; canvas.
Called in Scotland the Hare among the
Kale. Six figures: the father making with
his fingers the shadow of a rabbit on the
wall, which the mother holds her babe to
see; in foreground, a girl with a lighted
candle; at left, two boys looking on.
Painted in 1815; bought by Mr. Turner
for 200 guineas; sold in 1842 to Sir W.
G. Armstrong for 700 guineas. Sketch
in Baring Collection. Engraved by John
Burnet; W. Greatbach.—Heaton, Works of
Sir D. W.; Art Journal (London, 1877),
100.
RABE, EDMUND, born in Berlin, Sept.
2, 1815. Genre and animal painter, pupil
of Berlin Academy and of Franz Krüger;
visited in 1835 Dresden, Prague, Nuremberg,
and the Baltic Coast, in 1841-42 the
Netherlands, Paris, Switzerland, and Northern
Italy, and in 1856 Palestine. Member
of Berlin Academy in 1843. Works: Transportation
of French Prisoners of War in
1813 (1838), National Gallery, Berlin; Report
to Officers Carousing (1840), Schwerin
Gallery; Call to Arms before Town Hall
of Prussian Town in 1813; Travellers before
Inn; Circus
Riders in
French Town.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1843), 83; D. Kunstbl.
(1850), 246; Jordan (1885), ii. 175; Raczynski,
iii. 113; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch.,
287.
RACHOU, HENRI, born at Toulouse;
contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Bonnat.
Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Knitters
(1881); Fishmonger, Studio Interior
(1882); St. Jerome, Breton Cobbler (1883);
Portraits (1884, 1885, 1886).
RADIN, SALEH, Prince, born in Java,
died at Buitenzorg, near Batavia, April 23,
1881. Animal, landscape, and marine paint-