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 RUSS BUSS, LEANDER, born in Vienna, Sept. 23, 1809, died at llustendorf, near Vienna, March 8, 1864. History and genre painter, son of and first instructed by Karl RUBS, then pupil of Vienna Academy ; visited It- aly, and in 1833 the East Works : Defence of a Bastion by Vienna Citizens in 1G83 (1837), Vienna Museum ; The End of the Flood (1828); Ivanhoe liberating Rebecca (1830); Two Scenes in Don Quixote (1832); Maria von Sickingen interceding for Gotz von Berlichiugen (1835) ; Leopold VH of Babenberg opening his Treasury to City of Vienna (1837) ; Episode in Austrian War of Succession, 1741 (1848). Wurzbach, xxvii. 288. RUSS, ROBERT, born in Vienna, June 7, 1847. Landscape painter, pupil of Vien- na Academy under Albert Zimmernianu, whom he accompanied on several study trips, and in whose place he became profes- sor at Vienna Academy in 1871. Gold medal, 1869. Works : Pine Forest (1869) ; Views near Eisenerz (4, 1870); Fiirstenburg near Burgeis (1871), Castle Heidelberg, Vi- enna Museum ; Wind Mill in Rotterdam, Canal in Venice (1873) ; Wood Landscape (1874); Pilgrims' Procession ; Scene in the Wurstel Prater, Vienna ; St. Paul's Cem- etery at Botzen (1882); View near Meran, Italian Landscape (Jubilee Exhibition, Ber- lin, 1886). Milller, 453 ; Wurzbach, xxvii. 291 ; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 372 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, vii. 163. RUSTIC CHILDREN, Thomas Gainsbor- ough, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. ! 1 ft. 6 in. x 1 ft. 2 in. Evening ; a girl standing, with a child in her arms, and a boy with a bundle of faggots, seated ; in background, right, a cottage. Engraved by G. B. Shaw in Art Journal. Brock-Arnold, 64 ; Cat. Nat. Gal. ; Art Journal (1850), 102. RUSTIC CIVILITY, William Collins, Chatsworth ; wood, H. 1 ft 6 in. x 2 ft. A ragged boy holding open a gate for the squire ; a smaller child hides shyly behind his brother, and a third, with a dog, peeps through the bars. The approach of the VI rider is indicated only by the shadow of his horse and himself in the foreground. Royal Academy, 1832 ; to Duke of Devonshire, 250 guineas; repetition (1834), 8. Kensington Museum. Engraved by Outrun ; C. Cousen. -Wilkie Collins, Memoirs, ii. 10, 347 ; Painters of Georgian Era, 72 ; Art Journal (1865), 234. RUSTIC TOILET, Thomas Faed, Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York ; canvas. A young girl seated before a table, on which in propped up a broken looking-glass, with both hands raised arranging her hair ; at left, a child, standing. RUSTIGE, HEINRICH VON, born at Werl, Westphalia, April 12, 1810. History, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Dlls- seldorf Academy under Schadow ; went in 1836 to Frankfort, whence he made pro- longed study trips to Vienna, Hungary, Dresden, Berlin, Belgium, France, and Eng- land, and in 1845 became professor at the art school in Stuttgart, and inspector of the royal galleries. Medal, London, 1874 ; Wurternberg Crown Order ; Bavarian Order of Michael. Works : French Invalid (1832); Prayer in Storm (1836), Inundation Scene, National Gallery, Berlin ; Interrupted Meal, Rustic genre Scene, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Rhenish Kirmess (1838) ; Quartering in Hungary ; Village Physician ; Rubens in his Pupils' Studio ; Duke of Alva at Rudol- stadt (1861), Emperor Otto L after Con- quest of the Danes, Capuchin Monk trying to convert Gypsies, Stuttgart Museum ; Till Eulenspiegel ; Transportation of Remains of Otto HI. over the Alps, Stettin Museum ; Emperor Frederic H. at Palermo ; Crusa- ders in the Desert ; Rubens taking his Wife to Studio of his Pupils; The Recovered Child ; Queen Elizabeth attending Perform- ance of Merry Wives (1882) ; Roman Ban- quet (1883). niustr. Zeitg. (1863), ii. 31 ; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 546 ; Mttller, 454 ; Wolfg. Miiller, Ddsseldf. K, 288 ; Riegel, D. Kuuststud., 421. RUTH AND BOAZ, Alexandra Cabanel, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York ; can-