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of Council (1636), Town Hall, Hague; Series of portraits (24) of Colonels (1611, 1612, 1615, 1616, 1621, 1624), Museum, ib.; five portraits, Amsterdam Museum; two do. (one dated, 1616), Brussels Museum; Female portraits (2, 1633, 1634), Louvre, Paris; Family Group, Portrait of a Lawyer (1622), Brunswick Gallery; Old Man in Armour (1605), Dresden Gallery; Scholar and Little Daughter, Male Portrait (1633), Berlin Museum; Male Portrait (1622), two others, Old Pinakothek, Munich; others in Copenhagen, Gotha, Oldenburg (1620), and Turin (3) Galleries; Portrait of Lucretia van der Meulen, Historical Society, New York.—Archief v. ned. Kunstgesch., iii. 261, 285; iv. 3; Burger, Musées, i. 57; ii. 195; Kramm, v. 1341; Kunstkronijk (1867), 83, 86; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 355; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 125; ii. 198.

Rebekah and Eliezer, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre.

RAZZI. See Sodoma.

READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN, born in Chester County, Pa., March 12, 1822, died in New York, May 11, 1872. Portrait and genre painter; began the study of sculpture in Cincinnati in 1839, but soon turned his attention to painting. In 1841 he opened a studio in New York, and afterwards painted in Philadelphia and Boston. Visited Europe in 1850, and after studying in Florence settled in Rome, whence he made occasional visits to America, during one of which he died. Works: Portrait of George Peabody (Peabody Institute, Baltimore); Star of Bethlehem; Water-Sprite; Sheridan's Ride; Lost Pleiad; Undine; Excelsior (Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia). Mr. Read was better known as a poet than as a painter.—Tuckerman, 460; Kunst-Chronik, vii. 348.

READING THE WILL, Sir David Wilkie, New Munich Gallery; canvas. A party gathered in a room listening to the reading of a will by a lawyer, who is seated at a table in centre; group of 21 figures. Painted in 1820 for King of Bavaria, who paid for it