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- ures for the duke. His drawing is less
commendable than his colouring. In the Schleissheim Gallery is by him a Nativity.—Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Immerzeel, iii. 27; Kramm, v. 1387; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 529; Nagler, xiii. 353; do., Mon., iii. 552; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiv. 391.
ROOS, JOHANN MELCHIOR, born at
Frankfort in 1659, died there in 1731. German
school; animal and portrait painter,
son and pupil of preceding, studied in Italy
in 1686-90; after his return married in Nuremberg,
and settled in Frankfort; lived
also temporarily in Switzerland, where he
painted portraits at Schaffhausen, Winterthur,
etc.; employed several years by the
landgrave of Hesse Cassel, for whom he
painted some of his best works. Works:
Landscape with Cattle (2), Bamberg Gallery;
Annunciation to the Shepherds, Cassel
Gallery; Boar Hunt, Deer Hunt, two others,
Darmstadt Museum; Cattle-Piece (1687),
Christ on Mount of Olives (1710), Amalienstift,
Dessau; Stags under an Oak (1714),
Dresden Museum; Landscape with Lion
Family (1716), Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Four Animal Pieces (two dated 1716, 1717);
Meiningen Gallery; White Stag and Hind,
White Bears (1729),
Animal Life (1732),
Schwerin Gallery;
Boar Hunt, Stag Hunt,
Stuttgart Museum;
Sheep and Goats, Wiesbaden Gallery.—Nagler,
xiii. 360.
ROOS, PHILIPP PETER, surnamed
Rosa di Tivoli, born in Frankfort in 1655,
died in Rome in 1705. German school;
landscape and animal painter, son and pupil
of Johann Heinrich, in whose style he painted
in his earlier time; in 1677 he went to
Rome, where he studied under Brandi, whose
daughter he married, and later settled at
Tivoli, whence his surname. He painted
life-size figures and animals in a broad yet
superficial manner, and in a heavy brown
tone. Works: Wolf tearing Lamb, Louvre;
Noah and Animals, seven others, Dresden
Gallery; Falls of Tivoli, Flock of Sheep,
Two Cavalry Skirmishes, Vienna Museum;
seventeen pictures, Cassel Gallery; others
in Galleries and Museums of Augsburg,
Bamberg, Bologna (2), Brunswick, Brussels,
Carlsruhe (2), Darmstadt (2), Gotha (3, one
dated 1694), Leipsic (2), Madrid (8), Nuremberg
(2), Oldenburg, Schleissheim (5),
Schwerin; Raczynski Gallery, Berlin (2);
Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Hermitage,
St. Petersburg (4); Uffizi, Florence. His
son Jacob, called Rosa da Napoli (born at
Tivoli in 1680), painted at Naples quite in
the same manner.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 531.
ROOS (Rosa), JOSEF, born in Vienna,
Oct. 9, 1726, died there, Aug. 25 (or 30),
1805. Landscape and animal painter, son
of and first instructed by Cajetan Roos (died
in Vienna about 1735, son of Rosa da Tivoli),
then studied after the works of his
grandfather, and became pupil of the Vienna
Academy; setting out to travel, he
worked at Dresden, with the interruption
of a year's (1757) sojourn in Berlin, and on
his return to Vienna became inspector of
the Belvedere Gallery, of which he published
in 1796 a valuable comprehensive
description. He was court painter to Augustus
III. of Saxony, and member of the
Dresden Academy. Works: Mountain Landscape
with Sheep (1770), Museum, Vienna;
do. and Shepherd Family (2, 1763), Liechtenstein
Gallery, ib.; Four Great Landscapes,
Summer Palace of Schönbrun;
Landscape with Flock (1765), Dresden
Museum.—Wurzbach, xxvi. 335.
ROOSE or ROZE, NICHOLAS. See
Liemaeker.
ROOY, JOHANNES BAPTISTA VAN,
born in Antwerp, March 11, 1808. History,
genre, and portrait painter, pupil of
M. van Bree; visited Italy, France, and
England. Medal, 1836. Works: Last Moments
of Egmont (1836); Philip of Marnix
fleeing from the Spaniards (1839); Return
of Nuns to their Convent; Farewell of Albrecht
Beyling (1844).—Immerzeel, iii. 29;
Kramm, v. 1389.