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ROQUEPLAN, (JOSEPH ÉTIENNE)
CAMILLE, called Rocoplan, born at Mallemart
(Bouches-du-Rhône), Feb. 18, 1800,
died in Paris, Sept. 29, 1855. Genre, marine,
and landscape painter, pupil of Abel
de Pujol and of Gros. One of the leaders of
the new school of French art (1830). Medals:
2d class, 1824; 1st class, 1828; L. of
Honour, 1831; Officer, 1852. Works: Equinoctial
Tide, Death of the Spy Morris (1827),
Lille Museum; Sea View (1831), Havre Museum;
Draught of Fishes (1828), Sick Mother
(1830), Corn Field (1830), Meadow (1835),
View with Bridge and Windmills, Königsberg
Museum; Incident in Life of Rousseau,
Water Mill, Walk in the Park (1833);
Antiquary (sold for 30,000 francs at the Duc
d'Orléans' sale), St. Bartholomew's Day, Pacy-sur-Eure
(1834); Rousseau picking Cherries,
Amorous Lion (1836); Battle of Elchingen
(1837), do. of Rocoux, Versailles Museum;
Dutch Subscription, Gaston de Medicis
(1837); Van Dyck in London, Magdalen in
Desert (1838); Peasants of the Valley of
Ossau, Spaniards of Penticosa, Passports
on Spanish Frontier (1847); Leda, Girl
with Flowers (1850); Fountain of Grand
Figuier (1852), Luxembourg Museum;
Daughters of Eve (1855, last work); Valentine
and Raoul, Bordeaux Museum; Children
playing with Cat, Chartres Museum;
Coast View, Grenoble Museum; Castello
Gandolfo, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Harbour
of Boulogne in Approaching Storm,
Leipsic Museum.—Bellier,
ii. 415;
Ch. Blanc,
École française;
Lejeune, Guide, iii. 226, 317; Meyer,
Gesch., 269; Nagler, xiii. 365.
RÖRBYE, MARTINUS CHRISTIAN
WESSELTOFT, born at Drammen, Norway,
May 17, 1803, died in Copenhagen,
Aug. 29, 1848. Genre and portrait painter,
pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and
of Eckersberg; visited, in 1834-37, Italy,
Greece, and Turkey, and brought home
numerous studies. On his return he won
the Thorvaldsen medal, in 1838 became
member of, and in 1844 professor at, the
Academy, having gone to Italy meanwhile
in 1839. His pictures are brilliant in colour
and carefully executed. Works: Turkish
Notary making Marriage Contract
(1837); Life in the East (1838); Market at
Amalfi (1842); Arcade of City Hall at Copenhagen
(1832), Chapel of St. Benedict's
Convent at Subiaco (1843), Orientals before
Turkish Coffee-House (1845), Inhabitants
of Cape Skagen amusing themselves
(1848), Copenhagen Gallery.—Weilbach,
599.
RORKE'S DRIFT, DEFENCE OF, Alphonse
de Neuville, Sydney Gallery, New
South Wales; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 9 ft. Assault
by the Zulus on the improvised defences
at Rorke's Drift, on the evening of
the defeat at Isandhlwana. Painted in 1880
for Fine Art Society.—Athen., March, 1880,
384.
Subject treated also by Elizabeth Thompson Butler (1881).
ROSA DA NAPOLI. See Roos, Philipp.
ROSA, SALVATOR, born at Renella,
near Naples, June 20,
1615, died in Rome,
March 15, 1673. Neapolitan
school; pupil
of his uncle, Paolo
Greco, and his brother-in-law,
Francesco
Fracanzano. When
about eighteen years
old he made a sketching
tour through the Abruzzi, and is said
to have learned from banditti of that wild
region many incidents which he afterwards
painted. On his return home he was
obliged, by the death of his father, to labour
for the support of the family; but he
was fortunate enough to gain the friendship
of Lanfranco and Aniello Falcone, through
whose aid his pictures found a sale. Under
Falcone's instruction he learned to paint
battle scenes with such success as to rival