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painter, studied first at Osnabrück, then in Munich under Rhomberg and at the Academy under Philipp Foltz; visited North Italy, lived for several years in Düsseldorf, and settled in Munich. Works: Reconciliation of Otto I. with his Brother Henry, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Last of the Hohenstaufen before Charles of Anjou; Lying-in-Room of a Princess; Quartering in 16th Century; Return from Fair; Violinist; Sunday Morning; Eaves-Dropper; Treacherous Hostess; Before the Festival; Leaving Home, I. M. Scott, San Francisco; Convalescent, Mrs. D. D. Colton, ib.; three frescos in National Museum, Munich.—Müller, 446.
ROGHMAN, ROELAND, born in Amsterdam
in 1597, died there after 1686.
Dutch school; landscape painter; travelled
extensively in Germany and Tyrol. His rare
landscapes in the warm tone of Rembrandt
are particularly noticeable for their fine perspective;
they may be seen in the Museums
of Amsterdam and Berlin, Galleries of Cassel
(3, two attributed to Rembrandt), Copenhagen,
and Oldenburg.—Immerzeel, iii. 23;
Kugler (Crowe), ii. 359; Kramm, v. 1380.
ROHDE, KARL, born in Coblentz in 1840.
Animal painter, pupil of Stuttgart Art School
under Neher and Rustige, settled in Munich
in 1864; paints chiefly domestic poultry.
Works: The Duellists; Prize Race; Hungry
Folk; Sparrow's Wooing; Clucking Hen.—Müller,
446; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 247.
ROKES, HENDRIK MARTENSZ. See
Sorgh.
ROLL, ALFRED PHILIPPE, born in
Paris; contemporary.
Military and genre
painter, pupil of Gérôme
and Bonnat.
Medals: 3d class, 1875;
1st class, 1877; L. of
Honour, 1883. Works:
Environs of Baccarat,
Evening (l870); Wounded
Fugitive (1872); Bacchante
(1873); Don Juan and Haidée (1875);
Halte là! (1875); Huntress (1876); Inundation
of Toulouse in 1875 (1877); Festival of
Silenus (1879); Miners on a Strike (1880);
July 14th 1880 (1882); Normandy (1883)—Luxembourg
Museum; Fight between a
French Cuirassier and a Prussian Sharpshooter;
Marianne Offrey—Crieuse de vert
(1884); At Work, Study of a Bull and Nude
Woman (1885); Portrait of Damoye (1886).—Gaz.
des B. Arts (1882), xxv. 546; (1884),
xxix. 468; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxi. 315.
ROLL-CALL, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson
Butler, Windsor Castle; canvas. Calling
the roll of the Grenadier Guards on a misty
winter morning after an engagement in the
Crimea. A line of soldiers worn out with conflict,
some wounded, some dying and fallen
with their faces in the snow, inspected by
the colonel as he rides slowly past. Royal
Academy, 1874; purchased by the Queen.
Engraved by F. Stacpoole.—Art Journal
(1874), 163.
ROLL-CALL OF LAST VICTIMS,
Charles Louis Müller, Versailles Museum;
canvas, H. 14 ft. 4 in. × 26 ft. 11 in. Scene—the
prison of the Conciergerie, on the 8th
Thermidor, 1794. An officer of the Revolutionary
Tribunal is reading the names of the
victims for whom the cart waits outside the
door; the Princesse de Chimay is already
in the cart, and the Princesse de Monaco,
who has just been called, rises in terror at
right, while an informer points her out
with his finger. The central figure, seated
in a chair, is Andre Chénier, the author.
Salon, 1850; replica (H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 7 ft. 10
in.), bought in 1862 by John Taylor Johnston
for $1,800; his sale (1876), $8,200, to
J. J. Astor, New York. Original sketch, H.
L. Dousman, St. Louis. Photogravure in
Art Treasures of America, ii. 11, 14; iii. 58.
ROLLMANN, JULIUS, born Dec. 13,
1827, died at Soest, Westphalia, April 30,
1865. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
and Berlin Academies; settled in Munich,
and in 1853 in Düsseldorf; visited
Italy in 1858. Work: View in Bavarian
Alps (1864), National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan
(1885), ii. 189.