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(1847), Vienna Museum; End of Church-Day (1846); Bequest of Grand-parents (1847); Ballad Singer (1848); Farewell of the Bride (1850); Rural Meal, Singing Rehearsal (1851); Bout at Inn, End of a Village Church-Day (1852).—Wurzbach, xxvi. 179.
RITTER, HENRY, born at Montreal,
May 24, 1816, died at Düsseldorf, Dec. 21,
1853. Genre and landscape painter, pupil
of Gröger in Hamburg, whither he went
early in life, then of Düsseldorf Academy
under Sohn, where he was much attracted
by Jordan; excelled in representing episodes
from sailor-life, with great vividness
and brilliant colouring. Works: Smugglers
attacked by Dragoons (1839); The
Boaster (1841); Betrothal in Normandy
(1842), Leipsic Museum; Fisherman's Son
Drowned (1844), Ravené Gallery, Berlin;
Poacher (1847); Fire in the Prairies (1851),
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Middy's Sermon
(1852), Cologne Museum.—Cotta's Kunstbl.
(1846), No. 63; Förster, v. 395; Hagen, i.
353; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 224;
Wiegmann, 313.
RITTER, PAUL, born in Nuremberg,
March 4, 1829. Architecture painter, pupil
of Heideloff; became deaf and dumb when
four years of age; travelled in France, Austria,
Denmark, and Italy. Gold medal, Berlin,
1880. Works: Sacrament Shrine in St.
Lawrence, Nuremberg; Choir of St. Lawrence,
ib.; Court of Old Post Office, ib.;
Peller Hof, ib.; Well in Time of Thirty
Years' War, ib.; Arrival of Crown Jewels in
1424 (1883), City Hall, Nuremberg. His
brother, Lorenz (born Nov. 27, 1832), painted
for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
many views in Nuremberg and Heidelberg;
View of Pentagonal Tower in Nuremberg
(1882), Entry of Gustavus Adolphus into
Nuremberg (1884).—Müller, 441; Kunst-Chronik,
xvii. 353; xix. 94; Illustr. Zeitg.
(1884), i. 131; Land und Meer (1887),
i. 15.
RIVALZ, ANTOINE, born at Toulouse,
March 6, 1667, died there, Dec. 7, 1735.
French school; history and portrait painter,
son and pupil of Jean Pierre Rivalz (1625-1706),
then studied in Paris and in Rome,
where he received the first prize of the Accademia
di San Luca from the hands of Pope
Clement XI. After his return to his native
city he painted, during thirty years, many
pictures relating to its history, and in 1726
established an art school, which was raised
to the rank of an academy in 1750. Works:
Foundation of City of Ancyra, Sosthenes
King of Macedon taken Prisoner, Littorius
vanquished by Theodoric, Raymond de
Saint-Gilles taking the Cross in 1096, Defeat
of Henry II. of England before Toulouse in
1159, The Huguenots expelled from Toulouse
in 1562, Pope Urban II. consecrating
Church of St. Saturnin, Portrait of the Artist,
five others, Toulouse Museum; Diana
and Actæon, Narbonne Museum.—Bellier,
ii. 387; Ch. Blanc, École française, ii.
RIVER, GOING DOWN TO THE, Alma-Tadema,
W. H. Vanderbilt Collection, New
York; canvas, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. A Roman
lady, attended by her little daughter
and a slave-girl, descending stairs leading
down to the Tiber, with two ferrymen clamouring
for custom; at right, the river, with
a marble bridge in background, and a galley
coming into view through one of its arches.—Art
Treasures of America, iii. 95.
RIVEY, ARSÈNE, born at Caen; contemporary.
History and portrait painter,
pupil of Picot, Couture, and Bonnat. Medal,
3d class, 1880. Works: Intimacy (1870);
Brenda (1873); St. Sebastian (1876); David
appeasing the Anger of Saul (1878); Neapolitan
Woman (1881); Flemish Gentleman
(1882); Estudiante (1883); In the Armoury,
A Missive (1884); Study (1886).
RIVIERE, BRITON, born in London,
Aug. 14, 1840. Subject and animal painter,
son and pupil of William Riviere (1806-1876),
teacher of drawing at Cheltenham
College and afterwards at Oxford, where
Briton took his degree of A.B. in 1867. Exhibited
in 1858-59, at the Royal Academy,
pictures entitled Rest from Labour, Sheep