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Genre painter, pupil of the Royal Academy, where he first exhibited, in 1841, Scene from Macbeth. His pictures are generally domestic subjects, carefully painted. Works: The Lonely Hearth (1857); Return of the Prodigal (1858); The Day is Done (1860); The Doctor's Coming (1864); Follow My Leader (1867); Following the Trail, Hearth of his Home (1870); The Benediction (1871); Milton's First Meeting with Mary Powell; George Stephenson at Darlington.

RANSONNET-VILLEZ, EUGEN, Baron, born at Hietzing, near Vienna, June 7, 1838. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; visited Constantinople, Greece, and Asia Minor in 1860, Palestine, Egypt, Arabia in 1862, Ceylon and Hindostan in 1864-65, India, Siam, China, Japan, and a part of America in 1868. Lives at Vienna and at Nussdorf on the Atter Lake, Upper Austria. Works: Morning on Banks of the Ganges; Sail of Austrian Embassy to Bangkok (1870); Hindu Women in Bombay; First Knitting, Moutuin Forest in India (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Wurzbach, xxiv. 349.

RANVIER, VICTOR JOSEPH, born at Lyons; contemporary. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Janmot and Richard. Medals: 1865; 2d class, 1873; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Racing for the Wreath (1864), Infancy of Bacchus (1865), Luxembourg Museum; Echo, Exiled Virtues (1873); Release of Prometheus (1884), Lyons Museum; Morning (1876); Little Turtle (1879); Bacchus and Ariadne (1880); Child with a Swan (1882).—Claretie, Peintres, vii. 332, 387.

RANZONI, GUSTAV, born at Unternalb, Lower Austria, May 10, 1826. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Vienna Academy. Works: View on Karst Mountain (5, 1858, 1866, 1867); View on Traun Lake (1864); Ruin of Neukosel on the Karst (1865); Sunset in Autumn (1867); Sheep on the Puszta, Sunset near Klosterneuburg (1869); Before the Storm (1870, 1871), Vienna Academy; Cows Drinking (1870); Village Pond (1871); Oxen Ploughing; Cattle Herd Resting.—Wurzbach, xxiv. 353.

RAOUX, JEAN, born at Montpellier, June 12, 1677, died in Paris, Feb. 10, 1734. French school; genre painter, pupil of Ranc at Montpellier and of Bon Boulogne in Paris; won the grand prix de Rome in 1704. Member Academy in 1717, in which year he refused the position of painter to the King of Spain, on account of ill health. Made a short visit to England in 1720. Works: Telemachus and Calypso, Louvre; Dame Boucher as a Vestal (1728), Bordeaux Museum; do. (1734), Versailles Museum; Lady Musician, Douai Museum; Young Girl surprised by her Grandmother, Marseilles Museum; Vestal bearing the Sacred Fire, Montpellier Museum; Rinaldo and Armida with Nymphs and Cupids, Nantes Museum; Madame du Noyer, Orléans Museum; Cephalus and Procris, Berlin Museum; Judith with Head of Holofernes, Schleissheim Gallery; Flora, Historical Society, New York; Pygmalion in Love with his Statue; Continence of Scipio; Alexander Sick.—Bellier, ii. 342; Ch. Blanc, École française; Wurzbach, Fr. Mal. des xviii. Jahrh., 16; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, i. 208.

RAPHAEL or RAFFAELLO, born at Urbino, April 6, 1483, died in Rome, April 6, 1520. Umbrian and Roman school; family name Sante, Santi, Sanctius, or Sanzio; son and pupil of Giovanni Santi, after whose death (1492) he was probably taught by Timoteo Vite or Luca Signorelli, until his uncle, Simon Ciarla, took him to Perugia, at some time between June, 1499, and May,