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Beeches, Castle of Roque, Mill of Creissels, Forest in Winter, Game-Keeper and Poacher, Pau; Sheep in a Pasture, Morning, Last Tree of the Forest, Hollow Road, Sunset (1831 to 1848); Woods in Autumn (1853); Spring, Leafless Oaks (1857); Torrent (1859); Three Landscapes, Herd Marching, Bordeaux Museum; Farm near Pau (1841), City and Château of Pau, Landscape with Figures, Montpellier Museum; Forest in the Mountains (1842), Orléans Museum.—Bellier, ii. 373; Negrin, Artistes vivants du Midi (Toulouse, 1857).
RICHARD II., portrait, Jerusalem Chamber,
Westminster, formerly in the Choir of
the Abbey. The King on his throne. This
precious and carefully painted portrait,
which had been covered with several coats
of paint, and converted into a different personage,
was cleaned and repaired by George
Richmond and H. Merritt. Engraved in Carter's
Specimens (1780-94).—Geo. Scharf,
Hist. of Old London, 285; Observations on
the Westminster Abbey Portrait, reprinted
from Fine Arts Quarterly (Jan. 1867).
RICHARD II., WITH MADONNA AND
SAINTS, probably English, Wilton House,
England; diptych, wood, tempera; assumed
date, 1381. The King in a scarlet mantle
embroidered with his badge (white hart),
accompanied by SS. John Baptist, Edward
the Martyr, and Edward the Confessor,
kneels, in one panel, facing the Madonna
and angels on the other. The Virgin is clad
in deep blue, Christ in a mantle of cloth of
gold, and the angels have blue wings and
white hart badges. Charles I. obtained this
picture from Sir T. Jermyn, and James II.
(1688) gave it to Lord Castlemaine, at whose
death it passed to 8th Lord Pembroke
(1705). Engraved by Hollar (1639); H.
Shaw in "Dresses of the Middle Ages" (i. Pl.
43). Waagen thought it an Italian work.—Arundel
Soc. Chromolithograph, Essay by
Geo. Scharf (1883); Athenæum (March 17,
1883); Waagen, Treasures, iii. 150.
RICHARDS, THOMAS ADDISON, born
in London, Dec. 3, 1820. Landscape painter;
went, when a boy, to Georgia with his
parents, and removed thence, in 1845, to New
York, where he has since lived, with the exception
of occasional trips to Europe. Pupil
of National Academy in 1845-47; elected
an A.N.A. in 1848, N.A. in 1851; has
been corresponding secretary since 1852.
He was the first director of the Cooper Union
School of Design for Women in 1858-60;
since 1867, professor of art in University of
New York. Studio in New York. Works:
Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, Mr. Woolsey,
New Haven; Indian Paradise (1854);
Edisto River, French Broad River (1859);
Rhine, Warwick Castle (1869); Lake Winnipiseogee;
Chatsworth—England; Lake
Thun—Switzerland; Sunnyside; Lake Brienz—Switzerland
(1879); Squantum Road—Providence,
Meadow Brook, At Hunt's Mill—Providence
(1880); Dingman Creek—Pa.,
Lilacs (1881); Flower of the Period, Marshal
Niel Roses (1882); Pennsylvania Homestead,
Van Etten's Peak—Delaware River
(1883); Ferry Road at Dingman, In the Valley
of the Delaware, Basket of Roses (1884);
Mountain Brook, Delaware River (1885);
Midsummer on the Delaware, River Road at
Dingman's Ferry (1886).
RICHARDS, WILLIAM TROST, born in
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov.
14, 1833. Landscape
and marine painter,
pupil of Paul Weber,
a German artist in
Philadelphia. In 1855
visited Florence, in
1866-67 France and
Germany, and in 1878-79-80
London and
the coast of England.
Exhibited at Royal Academy, London, in
1869 and 1878-81; Paris Salon, 1873. Honorary
member of National Academy. Medals:
Philadelphia, 1876; Temple, 1885.
Works in oil: Wood Scene (1861); Leafy
June (1862); June Woods (1864); Mid-Ocean;
New England Coast; At Atlantic
City (1873); Yellow Carn at Cornwall (1879);