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- vas, H. 4 ft. 10 in. × 8 ft. The hostess,
seated at the right upon a sofa, is the centre of a group including Canova, Cuvier, Fouché, Delille, and Metternich, while at the other end of the salon a second group, including Lucien Bonaparte, Talleyrand, Brillat-Savarin, Talma, Bernadotte, and Sieyès, are gathered around Madame de Staël. Royal Academy, 1885.
RECCO, GIUSEPPE, born at Naples
in 1634, died there in 1695. Neapolitan
school; still-life painter, pupil of Porpera,
but seems to have been influenced by other
masters, especially Marseus van Schrick.
The King of Spain made him a knight of
Calatrava in 1667 and summoned him to his
court. Works: Four pictures with Fish and
other Marine Animals, Madrid Museum;
Dead Fish watched by Dog, Suermondt Museum,
Aix-la-Chapelle; Fruit-Piece, Hausmann
Collection, Hanover; Animal Life
around Pool (2), Schwerin Gallery; Fishes,
Wiesbaden Gallery; Flowers and Dead
Game, Naples Museum; A Thief, New York
Museum. His daughter Elena excelled in
the same branch of art.—Madrazo; Schlie,
513.
RECHBERGER, FRANZ, born in Vienna, Oct. 4, 1771, died there in 1842. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under F. A. Brandt; afterwards custodian of the Albertina in Vienna. Works: Landscape with Temple of Vesta, Vienna Academy; Views in Italy, Styria, Saxony.—Wurzbach, xxv. 95; Nagler, Mon., ii. 863.
REDGRAVE, RICHARD, born in London,
April 30, 1804. Landscape and genre
painter, pupil of Royal Academy, where he
exhibited his first picture, River Brent near
Hanwell, in 1825; elected an A.R.A. in 1840,
and R.A. in 1850; is an honorary retired
Academician. Has held several official positions
in the government art institutions
and is general inspector of art schools.
Works: Cymbeline (1833); Gulliver on the
Farmer's Table (1837); Quinten Massys,
Olivia's Return (1838); Reduced Gentleman's
Daughter, Cure of Paracelsus (1840);
Vicar of Wakefield finding his Lost Daughter
(1841); Ophelia, Cinderella (1842); Fashion's
Slaves (1847); Country Cousins (1848);
Marquis and Griselda (1850); Flight into
Egypt (1851); Well-Known Footstep, Moorland
Child (1857); Strayed Flock (1861);
Way through the Woods (1863); Jane Shore
(1864); Woodman's Dinner (1866); Eugene
Aram (1868); Jack-o'-Lantern (1870); Charcoal
Burners (1871); Expectation (1872);
Sermons in Stones (1874); Mill Pool, Starting
for a Holiday (1875); Calling the Sheep,
Oak of the Millhead (1876); Deserted (1877);
The Heir Come of Age, Friday Street (1878);
Hidden Among the Hills (1881).—Art Journal
(1850), 48; (1859), 205; Zeitschr. f. b.
K., v. 375.
REFORMATION, AGE OF, Wilhelm
von Kaulbach, New Museum, Berlin; mural
painting, staircase hall. Church interior;
Luther, standing before the altar, in centre,
raises the Bible in his hands; at sides, people
at communion; the aisles are filled with
modern representative men; in background,
a choir singing. Cartoon, Mrs. Durfee, Fall
River, Mass.
REGEMORTER, IGNATIUS JOSEPHUS
VAN, born at Antwerp, Dec. 4, 1785,
died there, July 20, 1873. Landscape and
genre painter, son and pupil of Petrus Johannes
van Regemorter. He went in 1809
to Paris, where he studied after the masterpieces
in the Musée Napoleon, and then
from nature on the banks of the Meuse,
and in Luxembourg. Won prizes in Antwerp,
Ghent, and Brussels; member of Institute
of the Netherlands in 1829, and of
Amsterdam Academy. Order of Leopold,
1855. Works: Fishmarket of Antwerp
(1827), Jan Steen's Household (1828), Am-