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siastic follower of Philip Veit, and widely

known throughout Germany by his Nemesis; visited Italy in 1844-45, and executed his famous frescos in the Coronation Hall at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1847-51, living alternately in Dresden in 1848-51; visited Rome again in 1852, when the first signs of a mental disease appeared, resulting in softening of the brain. Works: St. Boniface (1832), National Gallery, Berlin; do. Preaching (1835); several others from life of this Saint; Charles Martel in Battle of Tours (1833); Prayer before Battle of Sempach (1834); Nemesis (1837), Herr von Reuter, Frankfort; Daniel in Lions' Den (1838), Guardian Angel of Emperor Maximilian I., Städel Gallery, ib.; Charles V., Maximilian I. and II., Philip of Suabia (1838), Römer, ib.; Finding of Gustavus Adolphus after Battle of Lützen, Stuttgart Museum; Reconciliation of Emperor Otto I. with his Brother Henry, St. Martin (1837-39); Scenes from Life of Rudolph von Hapsburg, Battle of the Huns, Prayer of Crusaders, Job, several pictures in History of David, Theodosius and Ambrosius, Death of Barbarossa, Battle of Merseburg (about 1839); Emperor Max on the Martinswand, Charles V. entering St. Yuste, Coffin of Henry IV., St. Peter and St. John healing the Lame (1840-41), Leipsic Museum; Joshua, Absalom, Balaam's Ass, David anointed King, Moses destroying Tables of the Law (1842-43); St. Sebastian's Body taken by Christians from Cloaca Maxima, Martyrdom of St. Stephen; Resurrection, St. Nicholas, Frankfort; Cycle (6) representing Hannibal crossing the Alps (1844-45). Frescos: Opening of Charlemagne's Tomb by Otto III., Destruction of the Irmen Column, Battle of Cordova, Charlemagne's Entry into Pavia, Baptism of Wittekind, Coronation of Charlemagne, Building of Minster at Aix-la-Chapelle, Delivery of the Crown to Louis the Pious (1847-51), City Hall, Aix-la-Chapelle; cartoons of do., and of Resurrection, National Gallery, Berlin.—Allgem. Zeitg. (1859), 5985; Art Journal (1865), 337; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Jordan (1885), ii. 180; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 64; do., Alf. Rethel (Leipsic, 1861); Nagler, Mon., i. 507; Pecht, ii. 129; Reber, ii. 141; Riegel, D. Kunststud., 326; Vischer, Altes u. Neues, iii. 1; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 132; x. (Mittheilungen, iii. 49); xx. 208, 287.

RETHEL, OTTO, born at Aix-la-Chapelle, Dec. 26, 1822. History, genre, and portrait painter, brother of Alfred; pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under his brother, Karl Sohn, and Schadow. Works: Boaz and Ruth (1855), Leipsic Museum; Return of Tobias; Paul and Silas; Christ on Mount of Olives; Reunion after Sickness; Little Congratulators; At the Hearth; In the House of Mourning; Serious Infancy; Happy Age; Artist's Portrait (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 435.

RETTICH, KARL LORENZ, born at Rosenhagen, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in 1841. Landscape painter, pupil in Munich of Lier, then in Düsseldorf (1862-67) of Albert Flamm and Theodor Hagen; lived in Dresden in 1867-70 and settled in Weimar in 1871. Medals; London, 1874; Munich, 1876. Works: After Sunset; Autumn Morning; Landscape in Holstein; After the Storm; Sheep on Baltic Coast; Norwegian Coast; Devastation of Baltic Coast by Storm Tide; Cows on Baltic Coast.—Müller, 435.

RETURN FROM BEAR HUNT. See Stone Age.

RETURN FROM DEER STALKING, Sir Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle. A young chief and his old companion, a mountaineer, are going carefully down a hill, with two magnificently antlered stags bound across the backs of a black and a white pony; two dogs accompany them, one of which turns to a deer's skull lying in the grass. Royal Academy, 1827.