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 ROQUEPLAN ROQUEPLAN, (JOSEPH ETTENNE) CAMILLE, called Rocoplan, born at Malle- mart (Bouches-du-Rhone), Feb. 18, 1800, died in Paris, Sept. 29, 1855. Genre, ma- rine, and landscape painter, pupil of Abel de Pujol and of Gros. One of the leaders of the new school of French art (1830). Med- als : 2d class, 1824 ; 1st class, 1828 ; L. of Honour, 1831 ; Officer, 1852. Works : Equi- noctial Tide, Death of the Spy Morris (1827), Lille Museum ; Sea View (1831), Havre Mu- seum ; Draught of Fishes (1828), Sick Moth- er (1830), Corn Field (1830), Meadow (1835), View with Bridge and Windmills, KiJnigs- berg Museum ; Incident in Life of Rous- seau, Water Mill, Walk in the Park (1833); Antiquary (sold for 30,000 francs at the Due d'Orleans' sale), St. Bartholomew's Day.Pacy- sur-Eure (1834); Rousseau picking Cherries, Amorous Lion (1830) ; Battle of Elchiugen (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) ; Valen- tine and Raoul, Bordeaux Museum ; Chil- dren playing with Cat, Chartres Museum ; Coast View, Grenoble Museum ; Castello Gaudolfo, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin ; Har- bour of Boulogne in Approaching Storm, Leipsic Mu- ,* I i SI seum. Bel- li O lier, ii. 415 ; / Q Q L*jQ pAjCi" Ch. Blanc, 7 / J ficole fran- aise ; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 22f>, 317 ; Meyer, Gesch., 269 ; Nagler, xiii. 365. RORBYE, MARTINUS CHRISTIAN WESSELTOFT, born at Drammen, Nor- way, May 17, 1803, died in Copenhagen, Aug. 29, 1848. Genre and portrait paint- er, 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 col- our and carefully executed. Works : Turk- ish Notary making Marriage Contract (1837) ; Life in the East (1838) ; Market at Amalfi (1842) ; Arcade of City Hall at Co- penhagen (1832), Chapel of St Benedict's Convent at Subiaco (1843), Orientals be- fore Turkish Coffee-House (1845), Inhabi- tants of Cape Skagen amusing themselves (1848), Copenhagen Gallery. Weilbach, 599. RORKES DRIFT, DEFENCE OF, Al- phonse de Nnurille, Sydney Gallery, New South Wales ; canvas, H. 7 f t x 9 ft. As- sault by the Zulus on the improvised de- fences at Rorke's Drift, on the evening of the defeat at Isandhlwana. Painted in 1880 for Fine Art Society. Atheu., March, 1880, 384. Subject treated also by Elizabeth Thomp- son Butler (1881). ROSA DA NAPOLI. ROSA, SALVATOR, near Naples, June 20, 1615, died in Rome, March 15, 1(573. Ne- apolitan school ; pupil of his uncle, Paolo Greco, and his broth- er-in-law, Francesco Fracanzano. When about eighteen years old he made a sketch- ing 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 la- bour 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 I battle scenes with such success as to rival See 7?oos, Philipp. born at Eenelln, 6