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(Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Sig. Müller, 297; Weilbach, 592.



ROSENTHAL, TOBY EDWARD, born in New Haven, Conn., March 15, 1848. Figure painter; studied in San Francisco under a Spanish painter (1861), then in Munich (1865) at the Royal Academy, then under Raupp, and again at the Royal Academy seven years (from 1868) under Piloty. Studio in Munich. Exhibits rarely in America. Revisited San Francisco in 1871-72, and painted several portraits. Medal in Philadelphia, 1876; Munich, 2d class, 1883. Works: Love's Last Offering (1868); Spring's Joy and Sorrow (1868); Morning Prayers in Bach Family (1870), Leipsic Museum; Embarrassed, Head of Mrs. Greatorex—Study (1871); Elaine (1874); Young Monk in Refectory (1875); Forbidden Longing; Who laughs last laughs best (2); Girls' Boarding-School Alarmed (1877); Empty Place (1882); Trial of Constance de Beverley (1883), Irving M. Scott, San Francisco; Departure of the Family (1885); Dancing Lesson during the Empire (1886).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1886), i. 359; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 112; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 765; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 210; Müller, 449; D. Rundschau, xiii. 336; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 263.


ROSIER, AMÉDÉE, born at Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), Aug. 27, 1831. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Cogniet and of Durand Brager. Medal, 3d class, 1876. Works: Naval Fight before Sebastopol (1857); Turkish Fleet at Bombardment of Sebastopol (1859); Notre Dame de Paris, Constantinople at Sunset (1863); Old Port of Marseilles (1866); Beach between Honfleur and Villerville (1867), Saint-Étienne Museum; Views in and around Venice (1869-86).—Bellier, ii. 416.


ROSS, KARL, born at Altekoppel, Holstein, Nov. 18, 1816, died in Munich, Feb. 5, 1858. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy; went in 1837 to Greece, then to Munich, visited Rome in 1842-43 and in 1850, Paris in 1846, and took part in the Schleswig-Holstein campaign in 1848; settled in Munich. Works: Battlefield of Marathon (1841); Naxos (1854), Italian Landscape, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Temple of Phigalia; Wood Landscape in Holstein; Grove of Egeria near Rome, Schack Gallery, Munich.—D. Kunstbl. (1853), 161; (1856), 186; (1857), 61; (1858), 64, 154; Weilbach, 593.


ROSS, Sir WILLIAM CHARLES, born in London, June 3, 1794, died there, Jan. 20, 1860. Miniature painter, son and pupil of Mrs. Maria Ross (1760-1836), portrait painter, and student of Royal Academy in 1808. In 1809 he exhibited several classical works at the Academy, and up to 1826 his canvases were mostly large. In 1814 became assistant to Andrew Robertson, miniature painter, but soon found a fashionable following of his own. Among his distinguished sitters were the Queen and Prince Consort of England, the King and Queen of Belgium, Louis Philippe, Louis Napoleon, and King and Queen of Portugal. Elected an A.R.A. in 1838, R.A. in 1843, and knighted the same year. His portraits are rich in colour, and strongly individualized; the influence of Reynolds is apparent in his style. He painted more than 2,200 miniatures on ivory.—Art Journal (1849), 48; Sandby, ii. 171; Redgrave; Wilmot-Buxton, 99.


ROSSELLI, COSIMO, born in Florence in 1439, died there, Jan. 7, 1507. Florentine school; pupil of and assistant in 1453-56 to Neri di Bicci, but probably formed a connection with Benozzo Gozzoli on that painter's arrival in Florence in the latter year. Cosimo's style in the Last Judgment, Berlin, assigned to him and to Angelico, is that of a weak follower of the latter. He executed frescos in S. Ambrogio,