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Hebbel (1855); Franz Liszt (1858); King Christian of Denmark; King Otto and Queen Amalie of Greece. Frescos: History of War and Strategy, Fame and Honour, Courage and Wisdom, Unity and Power, Arsenal, Vienna; Myth of Paris (9, 1862), Baron Todesco, ib.; The Maiden from Afar (1864), Villa Wisgrill, Gmunden.—Hottner, Carl Rahl (Vienna, 1863); Dioskuren (1863), Nos. 14-18, 30-35; D. Kunst-Zeitg. (1863), viii. Nos. 14-17, 33-35; Förster, v. 508; Illustr. Zeitg. (1855), ii. No. 631; (1865), ii. 355; (1872), i. 139; Jordan (1885), ii. 175; Kölnische Zeitg. (1865), No. 203; Kunst-Chronik, i. 43, 102; ii. 55; N. fr. Presse (1865), Nos. 329, 338; Reber, ii. 207; Recensionen (1863), 3; Riegel, D. Kunststud., 303; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 176; Land und Meer (1865), xiv. 692; Unsere Zeit (1866), ii. 401; Wurzbach, xxiv. 230; Zeitschr. f. b. K., i. 109; iii. 34; iv. 90, 244; ix. (Mittheilungen, ii. 27); xii. 25, 90, 122, 217; xiii. 115, 188, 221, 250, 316, 355.
RAIBOLINI. See Francia.
RAILWAY STATION, William P. Frith,
Holloway Institute, Egham, near London;
canvas. Station of Great Western Railway
at Paddington, at time of departure of a
train. Painted in 1862; commissioned by
Mr. Flatou for 8,000 guineas.—Art Journal
(1862), 95, 122.
Rainbow, Rubens, Louvre.
RAINBOW, Rubens, Louvre; wood, H. 4 ft. × 5 ft. 8 in. A valley with a river crossed by two bridges, with buildings on the banks and mountains in background, spanned by a rainbow; in foreground, shepherds, sheep, and a dog, and a couple reclining. Collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by Bolswert; Garreau in Musée français.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. Louvre; Smith, ii. 119; Réveil, ix. 586.
RAKE'S PROGRESS, Hogarth, Soane
Museum, London; eight pictures, canvas,
H. 2 ft. 1 in. × 2 ft. 6 in.
They represent the career
of an extravagant and dissipated
young man, begun
in falsehood and profligacy,
ending in poverty, despair,
and madness. 1. The Rake
comes to his Fortune; 2.
The Rake as a Fine Gentleman;
3. The Rake in a
Bagnio; 4. The Rake Arrested;
5. The Rake's Marriage;
6. The Rake at the
Gaming-Table; 7. The Rake
in Prison; 8. The Rake in
Bedlam. Painted in 1735.
Sold in 1745 for 176 guineas;
bought by Sir John
Soane for £598.—Jameson, Hand-Book to
Public Gal., ii. 565.
RALLI, THÉODORE JACQUES, born in
Constantinople, of Greek parents; contemporary.
Genre painter, pupil of Gérôme,
and of Lecomte du Nouy; mention honourable,
1885. Studio in Paris. Works:
Watch by the Body of Ahmed-el-Kalib
Pasha (1884); Christian Vestal (1885);
Refectory of Greek Convent (1886).
RAMBERG, ARTHUR GEORG VON,
Baron, born in Vienna, Sept. 4, 1819, died
in Munich, Feb. 5, 1875. History and genre
painter and illustrator, pupil of Prague and
Dresden Academies and of Julius Hübner;
went in 1850 to Munich, in 1860 became