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Michael, 1727. Works: Cain building the City of Enoch (1682); Crucifixion (1684); Presentation in the Temple, St. Andrew, Portrait of Louis XIV. (1701), Philip V. of Spain, Bossuet (1705), Le Brun and Mignard, Cardinal Polignac, and nine others, Louvre; Louis XIV., Louis XV. (4, two dated 1715, 1730), Mignard, Portrait of himself, twelve others, Versailles Museum; Pierre Puget, Amiens Museum; Saint-Simon, Bishop of Metz, Marshal Noailles, Grenoble Museum; Louis XIV., Metz Museum; Fontenelle, Montpellier Museum; Marshal Turenne, Nîmes Museum; Louis XV., Rouen Museum; Philip of Orléans, Racine, Toulouse Museum; Louis XIV., Valenciennes Museum; others in Museums at Chartres, Douai, Lyons (2), Nantes, Orléans, Strasburg, Basle, Geneva, Zürich (2); Sculptor Bogaert, Berlin Museum; Portrait of himself, Cassel Gallery; Cardinal Fleury, Knight of St. Michael, Darmstadt Museum; Augustus III. of Poland, Dresden Museum; Louis XIV., Madrid Museum; Fontenelle, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Bossuet, Portrait of himself, Uffizi, Florence; Cardinal Fleury, National Gallery, London; others in Bamberg and Carlsruhe (2) Galleries; Old Pinakothek, Munich; Museum (2), Liechtenstein (1740) and Czernin Galleries, Vienna; Naples Museum; Historical Society, New York (2). His brother Gaspard (born at Perpignan, baptized June 1, 1661, died in Paris, March 27, 1705), was also a portrait painter of merit, several of whose works are probably attributed to his more famous brother.—Bellier, ii. 381; Ch. Blanc, École française; Dohme, 3; Houssaye, 140; Jal, 1062; Mémoirs inédits, ii. 114; Nagler, xiii. 179; Wurzbach, Fr. Mal. des XVIII. Jahrh., 6.
RIGAUD, JOHN FRANCIS, born at Turin, Italy, May 18, 1742, died at Packington, England, Dec. 6, 1810. History and portrait painter, son of a French merchant; early studied art and became painter to the King of Sweden; afterwards studied in Rome, Bologna, and Parma, and in 1766 was elected a member of the Bologna Academy. Went in 1772 to Paris, and thence to London, where he became an exhibitor at the Royal Academy, was elected an A.R.A. in 1782, and R.A. in 1784. His diploma picture was entitled Samson. He painted also in fresco, and decorated ceilings, and translated into English Leonardo da Vinci's "Treatise on Painting" (1806).—Redgrave.
RIGO, JULES (VINCENT ALFRED),
born in Paris in 1810. Battle painter, pupil
of L. Cogniet. Medals: 3d class, 1857;
2d class, 1859, 1861, 1863. Works: Bonaparte
at Siege of Toulon—1783 (1849), Ministry
of Interior, Paris; Crossing of the
Tagliamento in 1809, Taking of Zaatcha—1849
(1853), French Surgeons at Battle of
Inkerman—1854 (1857), Marshal Canrobert
in Trenches of Sebastopol (1859), Portrait
of Mayor of Versailles (1856), Versailles
Museum; Baptism of Clovis (1859, bought
by the State); Battle of Magenta (1861);
do. of Solferino (1866); Totila King of the
Goths visiting St. Benedict (1865), Communion
of St. Benedict (1867), St. Étienne
du Mont, Paris; Crossing of the Beresina—1812
(1870); Charge of Cuirassiers at Reichshoffen
(1879); Start for the Promenade
(1880).—Bellier, ii. 382.
RILEY, JOHN, born in London in 1646,
died there in 1691. Portrait painter, pupil
of Gerard Soest and of Isaac Fuller; became
noted after death of Lely, and had
among his sitters Charles II., James II. and
his Queen, and William and Mary, to whom