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History painter, pupil of Dresden Academy, then in Düsseldorf under Cornelius, for whom he painted in fresco one of his wall pictures at Helldorf. Spent several years in Italy, and became professor in Dresden Academy. His style suggests Raphael; suddenly he fell into mannerism, and soon after became insane. Works: Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness, Dresden Museum; Rebekah and Eliezer, Weimar Museum.—Förster, v. 421; Nagler, xiii. 134.
RICHTER, ÉDOUARD, born in Paris;
contemporary. Genre and portrait painter,
pupil of Hébert and Bonnat. Works:
News at the Studio (1868); Waiting (1870);
At the Fortune-Teller's, Baby's Photograph
(1875); The Slave's Narrative (1876); Veil
Dance (1877); Jewess of Morocco (1880);
Othello, Salome (1881); Harem in Old Granada
(1883); Sultana going to the Bath,
Young Girl with Narghileh (1884); Nymphea
lotus (1885); Bazaar in Tunis, Jewess
of Algiers (1886). In United States: Judith,
B. Wall, Providence; Gallery of the
Louvre, J. H. Stebbins, New York; In the
Cathedral, W. B. Bement, Philadelphia;
Love Song, T. M. Scott, San Francisco.
RICHTER, GUSTAV, born in Dessau,
May 12, 1847. Landscape painter, pupil
of Berlin Academy (1863-68) and of Max
Schmidt, then studied from nature, travelling
in Middle Germany; paints chiefly
mountain landscapes. Works: Group of
Black Poplars on the Elbe, Ducal Palace,
Dessau; Forest Border; Castle Giessmannsdorf
(1873); Landscape in Hartz Mountains
(1874); Entrance into Bode Valley (1876).
RICHTER, GUSTAV (KARL LUDWIG),
born in Berlin, Aug. 31, 1823, died there,
April 3, 1884. History and portrait painter,
pupil of Berlin Academy under Eduard Holbein,
and in Paris (1844-46) of Cogniet;
studied in Rome in 1847-49, visited afterwards
France and Italy repeatedly, Egypt
in 1861, and the Crimea in 1873. One of
the most successful portrait painters of
modern times. Member of and professor
in Berlin Academy; honorary member of
Munich and Vienna Academies. Medals:
Berlin, Paris (1855, 1857, 1859), Brussels,
Vienna (1873), Philadelphia
(1876), Munich
(1883); Order
pour le mérite.
Works: Portrait of his
Sister (1852); Daughter
of Jairus (1856),
National Gallery,
Berlin; Baldur, The
Walkyries, Walhalla,
New Museum, ib.; Building of the Pyramids
(1859-73), Maximilianeum, Munich; Female
Portrait (1852); do. (1856); Portrait
of Painter Hoguet (1862); do. of himself
(1862-64); do. of Eduard Hildebrandt
(1865), Dantzic Museum; Egyptian Girl,
Odalisque, Neapolitan Fisher-Boy, Egyptian
Dancers (1870); Pygmalion; Gypsy Girls
in the Crimea (1873); Sultan Abdul Aziz
(1867); Count and Countess Roberinsky;
Princess Carolath (1872); Duchess of Edinburgh;
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg
(1874); Hon. George Bancroft; Artist with
Boy, Artist's Wife with Younger Child
(1874); Banker's Wife (1876); Emperor William
(1876, 1877); Empress Augusta, Countess
Károlyi (1878); Prince Pless; Queen
Louise (1879), Cologne Museum; Countess
Dönhoff; General Count von Blumenthal
(1883), National Gallery, Berlin.—Allgem.
K. C., viii. 446, 902; Illustr. Zeitg. (1884),
i. 338; Jordan (1885), ii. 182; Kunst-Chronik,
v. 83; ix. 712; x. 51; xiii. 2; xiv. 5;
xix. 442, 541; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 87; ii.
43; Müller, 438; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch.,
191; D. Rundschau, ix. 471; xiii. 327;
xvii. 303; xx. 461, 463; xxi. 148; Land und
Meer (1872), i. 23; (1880), i. 47; (1884), ii.
710; Westermann's Monatshefte, liii. 40,
168; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 92, 105.
RICHTER, WILHELM, born in Vienna
in 1820. Genre, battle, and animal painter,
pupil of Vienna Academy. Works: Girl
before Shrine (1838); View from St. Michael;
Street Sweeper (1839); Uhlans Marching;
Storming of a Church (1844); Sally