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- gium, Spain, and Portugal; lived several
years in Paris, and settled in Rome in 1865. Member of St. Petersburg Academy in 1864; professor since 1869. Medals: London, Vienna. Works: Synagogue in Livonia; Interior of Roman Tavern; Visit of Cardinal to S. Onofrio; Vegetable Store at Frascati; Refectory in Capuchin Monastery in Rome; Cardinal Council.
ROBBE, LOUIS, born at Courtray, Nov.
17, 1806. Animal and landscape painter,
self-taught, studying from nature since 1833;
settled at Courtray in 1830, and at Brussels
in 1840. Medals at Brussels (1839-42);
Paris, 3d class, 1844; 2d class, 1855; L. of
Honour, 1845; Order of Leopold, 1843;
Officer, 1863; Spanish Order of Charles
III., 1844. Member Amsterdam Academy,
1855. Studio in Brussels. Works: Campine
in Brabant; Sheep and Shepherd;
Rest in the Pasture; Pond with Cows;
Roosters after Fight; Bull attacked by
Dogs, Brussels Museum; Landscape with
Cattle, Ghent Museum; Sheep in Mountainous
Landscape, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
His brother, Henri, is a still-life painter.
Medals: Bruges, 1850; Ypres, 1855.—Immerzeel,
iii. 18; Kramm, v. 1371; Vapereau
(1880), 1551; Sunaert, 123.
ROBBINS, HORACE WOLCOTT, born
in Mobile, Ala., Oct. 21, 1842. Landscape
painter, pupil of August Weidenbach, German
landscape painter, and of James M.
Hart. In 1865 visited England, Holland,
and France, where he received some instruction
from Rousseau in Paris, and in
the same year sketched in Jamaica, W. I.;
in 1866 sketched in Switzerland. Elected
an A.N.A. in 1864, and N.A. in 1878. Studio
in New York. Works in oil: Blue
Hills of Jamaica (1874); Roadside Elms;
Mt. Philip; New England Homestead, Harbour
Islands—Lake George (1878); Mountain
Stream (1879); Summer Afternoon—Keene
Valley (1880); Cloudy Afternoon,
Solitude (1881); Lake Katahdin—Maine
(1882); Early Autumn—Adirondacks, Twilight
Hour (1883); Summer Afternoon—Essex
County, Keene Valley Runway, Sun-*set—Island
of Jamaica (1884); Showery Afternoon
in the Mountains (1885); Darkening
in the Evening Glory (1886). Water-*colours:
New England Road Scene (1877);
New England Homestead (1878).
RÖBER, ERNST, born at Elberfeld, June
23, 1849. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy and of Bendemann. Works:
Hunting Expedition of the Nibelungs; Gods
of Olympus, National Gallery, Berlin;
Nymphs surprised by Fauns, Faun's Love
Song (1878). His brother, Fritz (born Oct.
15, 1851), also pupil of Bendemann, painted
Death of Sophonisba; The Great Elector
consoling the Peasantry after Battle of
Fehrbellin; then (together with his brother
and with Rudolf Bendemann), Allegorical
Figures, Cupid and Psyche, Groups of Genii,
National Gallery, Berlin.—Müller, 443;
Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 647; xxi. 243, 245;
D. Rundschau, xvii. 300.
ROBERT, ALEXANDRE, born at Trazegnies,
Hénault, Feb. 17, 1817. Portrait and
genre painter, pupil of Brussels Academy
under Navez, then studied in Italy, 1843-48.
Medals at Brussels, 1845, 1848; Paris,
1855; Officer, Order Leopold; Order Francis
Joseph of Austria. Member Royal Academy
of Belgium. Studio in Brussels. Works:
Ransacking of Carmelite Monastery in Antwerp,
Luca Signorelli painting his Dead Son,
Brussels Museum; Regret (1849), Ghent
Museum; Chorus of Capuchins; Young
Mendicant; Dolce far niente; Charles V.
before his Death; Souvenirs of Rome and
Naples.—Müller, 443; Vapereau (1880),
1553.
ROBERT, AURÈLE, born at Les Eplatures,
near La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel,
Dec. 18, 1805, died at Ried, near Bienne
(Biel), Canton Berne, Dec. 21, 1871. Architecture
and genre painter, brother and,
from 1822, pupil in Rome of Léopold Robert,
whom he accompanied on study trips
in 1828-29, and, after a short separation,
joined again in Paris in 1831, then in Venice
in 1833, to return home after Léopold's