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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-