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afterwards followed by another brother, Alexander, pupil in miniature painting of Shelley.—Redgrave.
ROBIE, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Brussels
in 1821. Still-life painter, pupil of
Brussels Academy; most of his works are
in private collections in France, England,
and America. Medals at Brussels (1848),
Paris (1851, 1863), Hague (1861), Sydney
(1879); Order of Leopold (1861); Officer
(1866); Commander (1881). Studio in Brussels.
Works: Garland, Grapes, The Window,
The Park (1846-51); Still-Life (1853),
Ghent Museum; Bread and Wine (1855);
Flowers, Grapes (1863); Grapes and Still-Life
(1864); Massacre of the Innocents,
Promised Land (1865); Autumn, Fruits
(1867); Flowers, Fruits and Accessories
(1878); Flowerpiece, T. Wigglesworth, Boston;
do., A. Adams, Watertown; H. B.
Hurlbut, Cleveland; J. J. O'Fallon, St.
Louis; W. H. Fosdick, Louisville; Charles
Crocker, San Francisco.—Vapereau (1880),
1554.
ROBINETTA, Sir Joshua Reynolds, National
Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 5
in. × 2 ft. A girl, half-length, seated, with
a robin on her right shoulder, resting her
left arm on its cage. Said to be a portrait
of Miss Anna Lewis, afterwards the Hon.
Mrs. Tollemache. Purchased with Peel pictures
in 1871. Replica at Knole Park, Earl
Amherst. A somewhat similar picture,
without the cage, belongs to Lord Lonsdale;
engraved by J. Jones (1787), and S.
W. Reynolds. Etched by A. Lalanze in
Portfolio.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Portfolio (1876),
145; Waagen, Art Treasures, iv. 340.
ROBINSON, THOMAS, born in Nova
Scotia in 1835. Animal painter, pupil of
Courbet, and for a short time of Auguste
Bonheur. He has lived and painted in Providence,
Boston, and Paris. Works: Dog's
Head, Sheep in Pasture, A New England
Farmer, Bull's Head (1876); Sprague's String
Team; Beacon Street in Boston in January,
In a Daisy Field (1884).—Benjamin, 103.
ROBUSTI. See Tintoretto.
ROCH (Rocco), ST., Tintoretto, Scuola di
S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, in narrow interval
between two windows. A fine figure,
though rather coarse.—Ruskin, Stones of
Venice, iii. 342.
ROCH, ST., GIVING ALMS, Annibale
Carracci, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 11
ft. 9 in. × 17 ft. 1 in. St. Roch, at right, on
a platform under a portico, giving alms to
the poor and the sick, who throng the court
in front; background of architecture. Painted
for Chapel of S. Rocco, Reggio; sold to
Duke of Modena, whence passed to Dresden.
Copy in small, by Guido, in Zambeccari
Gallery, Bologna. Engraved by Guido
Reni, who added two figures to it; also by
J. Camerata.—Gal. roy. de Dresde, i. Pl.
21; Réveil, ix. 590.
ROCH, ST., FINDING OF BODY OF,
Tintoretto, S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, H.
about 10 ft. × 25 ft. A somewhat confused
picture, with a flying angel in blue drapery;
altogether uninteresting.—Ruskin, Stones
of Venice, iii. 324.
ROCH, ST., IN CAMPO D'ARMATA,
Tintoretto, S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, H.
about 10 ft. × 25 ft. "A wild group of
horses and warriors in the most magnificent
confusion of fall and flight ever painted by
man. They all seem dashed different ways
as if by a whirlwind; and a whirlwind there
must be, for a huge tree is torn up and
hurled into the air, as if it were a shivered
lance."—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 324.
ROCH, ST., IN THE DESERT, Tintoretto,
S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. A single recumbent
figure in a not very interesting
landscape.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii.
322.
ROCH, ST., IN GLORY, Tintoretto, Scuola
di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. The Saint
ascends to heaven, looking down on a crowd
of the sick and poor, who are blessing and
adoring him. One of the worst of Tintorets.—Ruskin,
Stones of Venice, iii. 338.
ROCH, ST., IN HEAVEN, Tintoretto,
Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; oval, central picture
of ceiling, Sala dell' Albergo. Painted