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RETURN FROM EGYPT, Rubens, Blenheim Palace; canvas, H. 7 ft. 6 in. × 4 ft. 11 in. The Virgin, holding Jesus by her right hand, is advancing to left; on farther side, Joseph leading the ass; in middle of picture, a palm tree. Painted about 1610. Engraved by Vorsterman (1620); Lowrie; Voet; McArdell; in reverse, anonymous. Blenheim sale (1886), £1,500, to Murray.—Waagen, Treasures, iii. 124; Smith, ii. 243.
By Rubens, Metropolitan Museum, New York; wood, H. 8 ft. 7 in. × 5 ft. 10 in. The Virgin and St. Joseph lead Infant Jesus by the hand; above, the Father looking down from heaven. Painted for Jesuits' Church, Antwerp, in 1620; bought at sale after suppression of Jesuits (1777), by M. Danoot; at his sale (1828), bought by Mr. Buchanan, London. Transferred to canvas, 1880. Engraved by Bolswert.—Smith, ii. 21; Van Hasselt, Hist. de Rubens, 248; Cat. New York Mus.
RETURN FROM HAWKING, Sir Edwin
Landseer, Ellesmere Collection. The
party have just halted under an arch at the
entrance to the mansion; Lord Francis
Egerton (afterwards first Earl of Ellesmere),
who has dismounted from a white horse,
held by a page, stands leaning upon the
neck of a black horse, on which is seated
his wife with a child in her arms; at left,
the falconer with the victorious bird on his
gloved hand and others on a perch suspended
from his neck; in front, a little girl
teasing one of the falcons, game, hounds, and
pet dogs. Royal Academy, 1837. Engraved
by Samuel Cousins.—Landseer Gallery.
RETURNING FROM MARKET, Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. × 4 ft. 9 in. Dutch peasants, two girls on foot and a woman and child on ponies, fording a brook on their way home from the market-town, which is seen between the trees in background. Royal Academy, 1834; Vernon Collection, 1847. Engraved by Finden; J. Cousen.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Painters of Georgian Era, 76.
REUTERN, GERHARDT WILHELM
VON, born at Rösthof, Livland, July 18,
1794, died in Frankfort, March 22, 1865.
History and genre painter, pupil in 1834 of
Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow and
Hildebrandt, after having served in the
Russian army and lost his right arm in the
campaign of 1813; became court painter to
Czar Nicolas I. in 1835 and settled in Frankfort
in 1844. Works: Page in Mediæval
Costume, Girl opening Jewelry Box (1835);
Girl Knitting; Children's School; Domestic
Devotions of Schwalmer Peasants;
Mother and Child praying at a Grave; St.
George issuing from Church Door; Sacrifice
of Isaac (1849), Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Mother with Sleeping Child (3 times);
Madonna, Girl under a Tree, Three Singers
in a Boat (1858-59), Summer Palace at Zarskoe
Selo; Trinity, Crucifixion, Last Supper,
Fall of Man, Temptation of Christ.—Andresen,
iii. 223.
RÉVOIL, PIERRE, born at Lyons, June
13, 1776, died in Paris, March 19, 1842.
History and genre painter, pupil of David
with Fleury François Richard, whom he
greatly surpassed; founder of the romantic
school, which turned from the hackneyed
gods and heroes of antiquity to more
appealing episodes in history. Happy in
the choice of his subjects from the middle
ages and renaissance, he combined with an
attractive conception great care in representing
costumes and accessories with historical
truthfulness, and a brilliant colouring.
Became professor at Lyons Academy
in 1809, but resigned in 1830; L. of Honour,
1814; corresponding member of the
Institute, 1825. Works: The Ring of
Charles V. (1810), formerly in Luxembourg
Museum; The Tourney (1812), Lyons Museum;
Convalescence of Bayard (1817);
Jeanne d'Arc imprisoned at Rouen (1819);
Jeanne d'Albret (1819), Fontainebleau Palace;
Mary Stuart's Farewell of her Servants
(1822); Tancred taking Possession of Bethlehem
in 1099 (1840), Philippe Auguste taking
the Oriflamme at Saint-Denis in 1190