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from a City (1845); Attack of French Cavalry (1846); Death of Hensel at Malborghetto (1847); Piedmontese Prisoners of War (1858); Dragoons in a Skirmish (1865); Equestrian Portrait (1870); Horses at Pasture (1870); Kennel (1871); Royal Hunt in Hungary (1882).—Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 87; xix. 518; Wurzbach, xxvi. 65.


RICO, MARTIN, born in Madrid; contemporary. Architecture painter, pupil of Federico de Madrazo, then studied in Paris and Rome. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Doge's Palace in Venice, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York; Grand Canal—Venice, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Italian Garden, Metropolitan Museum, ib.; Court Interior—Granada, Boating Party in Bois de Boulogne, Washerwomen at Poissy, The Seine at Poissy, J. H. Stebbins, ib.; On the Seine, Morris K. Jesup, ib.; Ferry of San Stefano—Venice, C. L. Smith, ib.; Ancient Convent Walls near Seville, On the Seine, R. L. Cutting, ib.; Venice, Canal near Poissy, A. J. Drexel, Philadelphia; The Seine, Alex. Brown, ib.; Canal in Venice, Borie Collection, ib.; Gathering Oranges at Toledo, Venice, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Entrance to Canale Grande—Venice, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis; Village of Bougival, Daniel Catlin, ib.; Bridge of Toledo (1883); S. M. del Giglio in Venice (1884).—La Ilustracion (1883), i. 2; ii. 307; (1884), i. 267.



RIDINGER (Riedinger), JOHANN ELIAS, born in Ulm, Feb. 16, 1698 (Feb. 15, 1695?), died in Augsburg, April 10, 1767. German school; animal and landscape painter, pupil in Ulm of Christoph Resch and in Augsburg of Johann Falk, then lived for three years in Ratisbon; returned to Augsburg, where he was much influenced by Rugendas, and in 1759 became director of the Academy. Unsurpassed in the representation of wild animals. Works: Three Stags, Grosvenor Gallery, London; Stag pursued by Dogs, Cassel Gallery; Stag Resting (2), Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; Two Bears in a Wilderness (1710), Schwerin Gallery; Pheasant Hunt at Night, Weimar Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Kugler (Crowe); Nagler, xiii. 160; N. Bibliothek der Wissenschaften, ii. 137; Thienemann, Leben (Leip., 1856); Weyermann, 437.



RIEDEL, AUGUST, born at Baireuth, Dec. 27, 1802, died in Rome, Aug. 8, 1883. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Peter von Langer; went in 1828 to Rome, where he adopted a manner differing widely from the academic style, and excelling in brilliancy of colouring, which made his pictures very popular. Was member of and professor in Accademia di S. Luca in Rome, member of Berlin, Munich, Vienna, and St. Petersburg Academies. Works: Sakuntala, Medea, Stuttgart Gallery; Girls Bathing, Two Albanian Women (1838), National Gallery, Berlin; Child and Nurse (1865), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Women of Albano, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Vittoria d'Albano, Wittelsbach Palace, Munich; Neapolitan Fisher Family (1834), Judith (1840), Young Girl in Mother's Lap (1848), Portrait of Carl Rottmann (1827), five other portraits (1831, 1842, 1865), New Pinakothek, ib.; Roman Woman; Bayadere (1862); Neapolitan Mother by the Sea; Bacchante, Sappho, Herodias, Sakuntala, King of Würtemberg's Collection; Puck; Cupid and Psyche feeding Nightingales; Beautiful Stella; Agrippina with Ashes of Germanicus; Rezia; Spring; Angel of Light; The Peri; Love among the Roses, J. J. Astor, New York; Italian Woman, August Bel-