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Women stripping Hemp (1874); Labourers of the Last Hour (1876); Anger of the Pharisees (1877); Charities of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1878); Girl tending Cows, George Chastelain writing his Chronicles (1879); Last Members of the Mountain (1882); In the Other World (1885); A la Hotte!, The Daisies (1886).
ROORE, JACOB DE, born in Antwerp,
July 20, 1686, died at The Hague, July 17,
1747. Flemish school; history and portrait
painter, pupil of Kaspar Jacob van Opstal;
became master of the guild in 1707, executed
important decorative works on a large
scale, in Antwerp (1709-19), Amsterdam,
and Rotterdam, and settled at The Hague,
where he entered the guild. In 1728-29 he
painted again in Antwerp for several prominent
citizens. By his art, and a trade in
pictures which he carried on together with
Geeraard Hoet, he amassed a considerable
fortune. Works: Ransom of Christian
Slaves by the Trinitarians (1709), St.
James's, Antwerp; Ceilings with Allegories
(1715, 1716, 1717), City Hall, ib.; Christians
compelled to worship Idols, Meeting
of Moses and Aaron, Tournay Museum;
Portraits of Artist and Wife (1707),
Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Immerzeel, iii. 26;
Kramm, v. 1386; Rooses (Reber), 440; Van
den Branden, 1172.
ROOS, JOHANN HEINRICH, born at
Ottendorf, Palatinate,
Oct. 27, 1631,
died in Frankfort,
Oct. 3, 1685. German
school; landscape
and animal
painter, pupil in
Amsterdam of Juliaan
du Jardin
(1647), and of Barend
Graat. Having
visited Italy, France, and England in 1650-54,
he settled in Frankfort about 1657;
lived also in Cassel and Mentz, and became
court painter to the Elector Palatine
Charles Louis in 1673. Works: Landscape
with Cattle (2), Historical Society, New
York; Italian Landscape (1670), Hague
Museum; do., Berlin Museum; Herd
by Statue of Hercules, Male (1669), and
Female Portrait, Aschaffenburg Gallery;
Pastoral Scenes (7, two dated 1660, 1668),
Osteria in a Roman Ruin, Carlsruhe Gallery;
Bull with Goats and Sheep (1662),
Camp Scene (1665), Cow among Sheep
(1676), Copenhagen Gallery; Italian Landscapes
(3, 1668, 1680, 1685), Portrait of a
Scholar (1676), do. of himself, Darmstadt
Museum; St. John with the Lamb (1684),
Old Lady's Portrait, Amalienstift, Dessau;
Landscape with Cattle and Sheep (3, one
dated 1681), Dresden Museum; Cattle driven
through Water (1670), Herd resting by
Ruins (1674), Shepherd Family and Flock
(1680), Artist and Wife surrounded by Allegories,
Artist's Portrait (?, 2, one dated
1680), two others, Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Family on Garden Terrace, Leipsic
Museum; Landscapes with Cattle and Figures
(8, four dated 1661, 1665, 1668, 1675),
Breaking up of Army Encampment (1677),
Old Pinakothek, Munich; Roman Landscape
with Ruins (1669), Germanic Museum,
Nuremberg; Four Divisions of Day (4,
1667), Oldenburg Gallery; Italian Landscape
(1674), Halt of Gypsies among Ruins
(1675), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Artist's
Portrait, Pastoral Scene (1676), View near
Tivoli (1683), eight others, Schleissheim
Gallery; Cattle Pieces (2, 1662, 1682), Vienna
Museum; others in Galleries of Bologna
(2), Brunswick, Cassel (2), Schwerin (3,
1684, 1685), Stuttgart (4), Turin (1682),
Wörlitz; Liechtenstein (1658), Czernin, and
Schönborn (2) Galleries, Vienna; Historical
Society, New York (2). His brother Theodor
(born at Wesel
in 1638, died in 1698),
pupil of Adriaen de
Bie, lived in Mannheim
about 1657,
Strasburg in 1681,
and finally as court painter at Stuttgart,
where he painted eight large historical pict-