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RIBERA, ROMAN; contemporary. Genre painter. Works: Popular Paris Types, Vengan Penas! Unforeseen Case, At the Theatre (1883); At Break of Day (1884).—La Ilustracion (1883), i. 26, 91, 210, 362; (1884), i. 26.
RIBERA Y FERNANDEZ, Don JUAN
ANTONIO, born in Madrid, May 17, 1779,
died there, June 15, 1860. History and
portrait painter, pupil of Bayeu, and of San
Fernando Academy, then in Paris of David;
afterwards went to Rome and in 1811 became
court painter to Charles IV. and member
of Accademia di S. Luca; in 1820 honorary
member of Academia S. Fernando;
lived at Navalcarnero from 1835, became
professor in 1838, and afterwards second
director of the Madrid Museum. Works:
Cincinnatus, Wamba, Allegories of Summer,
Autumn, Evening, Night, Madrid Museum;
St. Ferdinand surrounded by Famous Spaniards,
Royal Palace, Madrid; Paradise of
Great Spaniards; Christ crowned with
Thorns, Resurrection, Aranjuez; Portrait
of Cardinal Ingranzo, Toledo Cathedral;
do. of Sculptor José Alvarez.
RIBOT, (AUGUSTIN) THÉODULE,
born at Breteuil
(Eure), Aug. 8,
1823. History,
genre, and portrait
painter, pupil of
Glaize. Style vigorous,
realistic, and
somewhat coarse.
Medals: 1864, 1865;
3d class, 1878; L.
of Honour, 1878.
Works: Cooks at Dinner Time, Merry Cook,
Chickens Roosting (1861); Rooster's Song,
Tinsmiths (1864); St. Sebastian (1865),
Christ and the Doctors (1866), Luxembourg
Museum; Torture (1867), Rouen
Museum; Philosophers; Lawyers and the
Oyster (1868); Good Samaritan (1870),
Luxembourg Museum; Old Man (1882);
Parchments, Artist's Daughter (1884); Père
Bresteau, Marie (1886); Artist's Children,
Col. Erwin Davis, New York.—L'Art
(1880), xxi. 127; Bellier, ii. 370; Claretie
(1874), 62, 110; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i.
500.
RICARD, GUSTAVE, born at Marseilles,
Sept. 1, 1823, died in Paris, Jan. 23, 1872.
Portrait painter, pupil of Cogniet; took the
great colourists of the Italian school and
Van Dyck for his models. He excelled in
rendering individual characteristics. Medals:
2d class, 1851; 1st class, 1852. Works:
Madame Sabatier (1850); Marshal Comte
Harispe, Versailles Museum; Diodore Rahoult,
painter, Grenoble Museum; Émile
Loubon, painter, Marseilles Museum; Male
Portrait, Montpellier Museum; do., and
Artist's Portrait, Luxembourg Museum.—Bellier,
ii. 371; Meyer, Gesch., 385.
RICCI, CAMILLO, born at Ferrara in
1580, died there in 1618. Lombard school;
pupil and assistant of Scarsellino, whose
manner he followed so exactly that his
works are sometimes confounded with his
master's. Although he died young he left
enough pictures of merit to insure him an
honourable
place among his
countrymen.—Lanzi,
iii. 209; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise.
RICCI, MARCO, born at Belluno in 1679, died in Venice in 1729. Venetian school; nephew, pupil, and associate of Sebastiano Ricci, whom he accompanied in 1710 to France and England, where he painted landscapes and architecture pieces, to be found in many collections. Though seldom without merit, these are little more than studies, executed, like the pictures of his uncle, in a slight and hasty way. In the Dresden Museum are ten of his landscapes. In Vienna: Landscape with Baptism of Christ, Museum; Two Landscapes, Liechtenstein Gallery.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Bartsch, xxi. 312.
RICCI, SEBASTIANO, born at Cividale
di Belluno in 1659, died in Venice, May 15,
1734. Venetian school; pupil in Venice of