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Erigone, King of Garb's Betrothed (1849); View of St. Peter's in Rome, Lamentano Bridge, Tower of Cervaro, Mary Magdalen's Conversion (1850); Italian Beggar Woman (1852); Christ healing the Paralytic, Love fleeing from Drunkenness (1853, bought by State); Christ healing a Sick Woman (1855); St. Nicholas saving the Sick (1857); Christ and the Children, Young Mother (1861); St. Peter of Alcantara healing a Child (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Baptism of Christ (1865), Préfecture de la Seine, Paris; Beheading of John Baptist (1866), Besançon Museum; Christ on the Cross (1868), Palais de Justice; Castle in Spain (1870); Forget-Me-Not (1872); Education of Achilles (1873); Don't awaken a Sleeping Cat, Toilet (1874); First Lesson on the Violin (1875); Dove (1876); Arab Woman, Chinese Doll (1877); The Feast in the Pharisee's House (1882); Around the Fountain (1884); Port de la Joliette (1886); Ignorance is Bliss, Mrs. D. D. Colton, San Francisco; decorations in St. Vincent de Paul and St. Séverin, Paris, and in other churches.—Bellier, ii. 376.
RICHTER, ADOLF, born at Thorn in
1816, died at Düsseldorf, Nov. 20, 1852.
Genre painter, pupil of Academy at Düsseldorf,
where he settled, and became very
popular with well composed and effectively
coloured scenes from home life, especially
such as introduced children. Works: Christmas
Eve (1837); Vintage on the Moselle
(1839); do. on the Rhine (1840); Hessian
Emigrants on Seashore (1841); Souvenir of
Cologne Carnival (1841); Sunday Afternoon
in the Country (1842); Morning on the Ahr
(1846); Last Comfort (1847); The Fifth
Child (1848); Children's Breakfast (1849);
Rhenish Village Life (1850); Return of
Landwehrmann (1851); Before the Village
School (1852).—Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf.
K., 268; Wiegmann, 316.
RICHTER, (ADRIAN) LUDWIG, born
in Dresden, Sept. 28, 1803, died at Loschwitz,
near Dresden, June 19, 1884. Landscape
and genre painter and illustrator, son
and pupil of the engraver Karl August
Richter; went in 1820 with Prince Narischkin
through France to Nice, travelled and
studied afterwards in
the German Alps, and
in 1823-26 in Italy.
Appointed instructor
in drawing at the porcelain
factory in Meissen
in 1828; called to
the Dresden Academy
in 1836, and professor
there in 1841-76.
Has illustrated many works. Ph.D., Leipsic
University; honorary member of Berlin, Munich,
and Vienna Academies; Commander,
Saxon Order of Albert; Order of Francis Joseph;
Bavarian Order of Michael. Works:
The Watzmann at Sunset (1824); Valley of
Amalfi, View near Rocca di Mezzo (1823-26);
Lauterbrunn Valley; Views in the Campagna
and in the Apennines; Ariccia, Civitella
(1827); Storm on Monte Serrone near Olevano
(1830), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Ferry
at the Schreckenstein near Aussig (1837),
Spring Landscape with Bridal Procession
(1847), Dresden Gallery; View in Sabine
Mountains (1825), Valley near Amalfi (1826),
The Schreckenstein near Aussig (1835), Evening
Landscape with Worshippers (1842),
Harvest Procession in Roman Campagna,
Leipsic Museum; View in the Riesengebirge
(1839), National Gallery, Berlin; Richter
Album.—Hoff, A. L. Richter (Frankfort,
1877); Jahn, Biogr. Aufsätze; Richter, Lebenserinnerungen;
Wessely, Ad. L. R. (Vienna,
1883); Allgem. K. C., viii. 531, 573;
Brockhaus, xiii. 693; Förster, v. 434; Illustr.
Zeitg. (1883), ii. 266; Jordan (1885),
ii. 182; Reber, ii. 261; Graph. K., vi. 1; D.
Kunstbl. (1850), 407; (1851), 208, 410;
(1852), 12; (1853), 251; (1855), 131, 390;
(1856), 451; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 605, 645;
Kunst f. Alle, i. 47; Müller, 437; Pecht, i.
57; Land und Meer (1869), i. 171; Zeitschr.
f. b. K., x. 257; xviii. 377; xxi. 36; xii.
(Mittheilungen, v. 1).
RICHTER, AUGUST, born at Dresden,
June 3, 1801, died at Pirna, Nov. 19, 1873.