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RIENZI, Holman Hunt, private gallery, England. Rienzi vowing to revenge his brother's death. Painted in 1849; Hunt's first Pre-Raphaelite picture.

RIEPENHAUSEN, FRANZ and JOHANN, born in Göttingen in 1786 and 1788, died in Rome, Franz, Jan. 3, 1831, Johann, Sept. 17, 1860. History painters, sons of and first instructed by the engraver Ernst Riepenhausen, then studied under W. Tischbein in Göttingen and in Cassel (1804), and after Hartmann's drawings from Pre-Raphaelite masters in Dresden (1805), where they embraced Catholicism; returned to Göttingen, and went in 1807 to Italy. In 1810 they published a history of painting in Italy. The portrait is of Johann Riepenhausen. Works: The Minstrel (after Goethe); Maiden from Afar (after Schiller); Magnificat; Casting off of Hagar; Christ blessing Children (1819), Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Madonna and St. John (1820), Schwerin Gallery; View of Rome (1820); Legend of St. Elizabeth (2, 1821); Raphael's Vision (1822), Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Conradin hearing his Death Sentence; Henry the Lion defending Barbarossa in Rome (1825), Royal Palace, Hanover. By Johann: Duke Erich saving Emperor Maximilian's Life in Battle of Regensburg (1834); First Communion of Girls in Rome; Cupid as Musician; Madonna and St. John, New Pinakothek, Munich; Cupid and Psyche (1835), Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Raphael's Death, Apparition (1836); Charity, Cupid instructing Two Girls in Love, Duke Ernst of Brunswick interceding for Prisoners (1837); Beatrix before Emperor Otto IV. (1838); Extinction of Cenci Family (1839); Poetry, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Andresen, iii. 86; Brockhaus, xiii. 702; Förster, iv. 232; N. Necrol. d. D. (1831), 38; Reber, i. 325; Riegel, Gesch. des Wiederauflebens der d. K., 258.

RIÉSENER, (LOUIS ANTOINE) LÉON, born in Paris, Jan. 21, 1808, died in 1878. Figure and portrait painter, pupil of his father, Henri François Riésener (portrait painter, 1767-1828), and of Gros. Medals: 3d class, 1836; 2d class, 1855, 1864; L. of Honour, 1873. Works: Flora, Bacchante (1836); Egyptian Girl and Nurse (1855); Idyl in Normandy (1863); Erigone (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Bacchus and Ariadne, Awaking, The Toilette (1875); Brook in the Wood; Country Pleasures.—Bellier, ii. 379; Meyer, Gesch., 286.

RIESER, MICHAEL, born at Schlitters, Tyrol, Sept. 6, 1828. History painter, pupil of Munich (1848-50) and Vienna (1852-61) Academies, at the latter under Ruben, then studied for three years after the old masters in Florence, Rome, and Venice. Member of Vienna Academy in 1864; professor at Industrial Art School in Vienna since 1868. Works: Holy Family (1858); Baptism of Christ; Death of St. Wenceslaus (1859); Eve of Nativity, Prague Gallery; many cartoons for church glass-paintings.—Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 511; Müller, 440; Wurzbach, xxvi. 148.

RIETSCHOOF, JAN CLAASZ, born at Hoorn in 1652, died there in 1719. Dutch school; marine painter, pupil of Backhuyzen, whose style he imitated very skilfully. Works: Calm Sea, Stormy Sea, Amsterdam Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 505.

RIGAUD, HYACINTHE, born at Perpignan, July 18, 1659, died in Paris, Dec. 29, 1743. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Pezet, Verdier, and Ranc; won grand prix in 1682, but, by Le Brun's advice, instead of going to Rome, devoted himself to portrait painting, in which he became a master. Member of Academy, 1700; professor, 1710; rector, 1733; Order of St.