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£425; sold after his death for £1,200 and placed in New Pinakothek. Engraved by J. Burnet.—Redgrave, Century, ii. 269; Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.


REBEKAH AND ELIEZER, Murillo, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. Eliezer drinks from a copper kettle held by Rebekah, who, with three other maidens bearing jars, stands near a well at right; at left, in middle distance, men and camels; background, landscape with mountains. In second manner. Etched by E. Buxo; litho-*graphed by F. Decraein; C. Mugica.—Curtis, 118; Madraza, 467.

Rebekah and Eliezer, Paolo Veronese (?), Louvre.

By Nicolas Poussin, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 6 ft. 6 in. In centre, near a well, Eliezer offers necklaces and bracelets to Rebekah, who seems to hesitate to accept them; at right, three young girls; at left, a group of nine women; in background, hills with buildings. Painted in Rome in 1648 for M. Pointel, on whose death passed to Duc de Richelieu, and finally to Louis XIV. Engraved by G. Rousselet (1677); G. Audran; Picart le Romain; Bouchers-Desnoyers.—Cat. Louvre; Filhol, i. Pl. 49; Landon, Musée, i. Pl. 49; Smith, viii. 5.

By Paolo Veronese (?) Louvre, H. 8 ft. 1 in. × 11 ft. 4 in.; transferred to new canvas in 1834, and former size reduced. Eliezer, beside a well, at the foot of a ruin shaded by trees, presents to Rebekah jewels which two negroes have brought; at left, several dromedaries. Formerly in Casa Bonaldi, Venice; bought by Jabach, and sold by him to Louis XIV. Engraved by Moyreau.—Cab. Crozat, ii. Pl. 13; Villot, Cat. Louvre.


REBELL, JOSEF, born in Vienna, Jan. 11, 1787, died in Dresden, Dec. 18, 1828. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Wutky, went in 1809 to Milan, painted there for Eugène Beauharnais, then in Naples (1811-15) for Murat; went to Rome, and in 1824 was called to Vienna as director of the Belvedere Gallery. Works: Storm near Grotto of Foccia near Naples, Portici with Vesuvius, Italian Landscape at Sunset (1819), Vienna Museum; do. at Sunrise, do. with Figures, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Mole of Portici (1818), View near Amalfi, Coast near Capri, Stormy Sea, New Pinakothek, Munich; View of Capri, Casamicciola on Ischia, Schack Gallery, ib.; Castle Persenbeug on the Danube, Czernin Gallery, Vienna; Arco di Focci near Cumae during Storm (1828), National Gallery, Berlin.—Hormayr, Archiv. (1823), 339; (1829), No. 30; Kunstbl. (1860), iii. 320; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1820), 263; (1829), 87; N. Necrol. der D. (1828), 859; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 205; Wurzbach, xxv. 78.


RECAMATORI, GIOVANNI DE'. See Giovanni da Udine.


RÉCAMIER, MADAME, SALON OF, William Quiller Orchardson, London; can-