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Narcissus; Venus and Cupid; Cupid and Psyche; Æneas and Dido; Metabus instructing his Daughter in Archery; Niobe with her Children; Endymion; Allegory on Dethronement of Napoleon (1814); Panorama of Innsbruck (5, 1819).—Andresen, ii. 61; Goethe, Winckelmann, ii. 150; Nagler, xii. 373; do., Mon., ii. 864; Naumann, iii. 140.


REHN, FRANK KNOX MORTON, born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 12, 1848. Marine painter, pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy. Exhibited first at National Academy, New York, in 1879. First prize for marine at St. Louis Exhibition, 1882; prize for water colour, New York, 1885; gold medal, 2d Prize Fund Exhibition, New York, 1886. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Fishing Boats in a Calm, High Tide—Cape Elizabeth (1879); Portland Light-House, Surf—New Jersey Coast (1880); Sun-shower—Atlantic Coast (1881), T. B. Clarke, New York; Old Fish Houses—Gloucester Harbour, Bracket's Cove—Maine (1882); Ocean Beach—New Jersey, Sundown (1883); Bay of Fundy, Little Good Harbour Beach—Massachusetts Coast (1884); Drifted on the Reef, Fishermen's Huts (1885); Incoming Fog, Three Fishers (1886).


REID, JOHN R., born in England; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, exhibits at Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. Medal, Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886. Works: Forbidden Ground (1877); Village Belle, Toil and Pleasure (1879); Peace and War (1881); Leaving the Old Home, Homeless and Homewards, Dead for a Ducat—Dead (1882); Darby and Joan, A Spill, The Yarn (1883); An Ugly Customer, Rival Grandfathers (1884); The Fatherless, The Mermaid, Seed Time—Cornwall (1885); The Shipwreck, Calm Evening (1886).


REIFFENSTEIN, KARL THEODOR, born in Frankfort, Jan. 12, 1820. Landscape painter, pupil of Städel Institute under Veit and Jakob Becker, and studied nature in the mountains of Middle Germany, in Switzerland, Belgium, England, France, and Italy. Medal, Vienna, 1873. Corresponding member of Cercle artistique in Belgium, 1768. Works: Forest Stillness (1845), Magdeburg Gallery; Black Pond in the Riesengebirge (1855); Lake Vierwaldstädt, The Orteler (1856); Morning in the Ramsau (1857); 17 Views of Castle Waldleiningen and Amorbach in the Odenwald (1857), Queen Victoria; Acqua Claudia near Rome; Approach to Burg Landskron; The Dachstein (1861); Castle Braunfels (1866); Picturesque and Romantic Frankfort (1,700 water-colours, 1875), Archival. Museum, Frankfort.—Kaulen, 247; Müller, 433.


REIGNIER, JEAN, born in Lyons, Aug. 3, 1815, died there in January, 1886. Flower painter, pupil of the Lyons School of Art, where he became professor in 1854. Medals: 2d class, 1848, 1861; L. of Honour, 1863. Works: Garland around Cross by which is a Dog as Emblem of Fidelity (1842), Nîmes Museum; Memorial to the Flower-Painter Berjon Antoine (1845); do. to Queen of Belgium (1852); do. to Queen Hortense (1857), Lyons Museum; Fruits, Grenoble Museum.—Bellier, ii. 354.


REINAGLE, PHILIP, born in 1749, died at Chelsea, Nov. 27, 1833. Portrait, landscape, and animal painter, pupil of Allan Ramsay in portraiture, and student at Royal Academy in 1769; elected an A.R.A. in 1787, and R.A. in 1812. Painted chiefly hunting and sporting subjects, many of which were engraved by J. Scott. Also made copies of the Dutch masters, some of which have passed as originals. His son, Richard Ramsay Reinagle (1775-1862, R.A. 1823), was a landscape and animal painter; and his grandson, George Philip Reinagle, son of Richard Ramsay (1802-35), was a marine painter.—Redgrave; Sandby, i. 345.


REINER, WENZEL LORENZ, born at Prague in 1686, died there, Oct. 9, 1743. German school; history, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Peter Brandel, and of Schweiger in Prague. His early battle-*pieces resemble those of Pieter van Bloe-