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 RAUL Palermo, Montereau, Dieppe, Havre (1836); Chalon-sur-SaOne, Harbour of St. Halo (1837); Farm-Yard in Burgundy (1838); Grand Canal and S. M. della Salute in Ven- ice (1840); Thun (1841); Entry of Emperor Henry IV. into Venice (1843), Grenoble Museum ; Square and Fountain of Tophane in Constantinople (1846) ; Mosque at Scu- tari ; Wall paintings in Notre Dame at Chardonnay. Bellier, ii. 336 ; Larousse. RAHL, KAKL, bora in Vienna, Aug. 13, 1812, died there, July 9, 1865. History and portrait painter, son of the engraver Karl Heinrich Rahl, pupil of Vienna Academy; won the first prize in 1832, visited Germany, Hungary, and France, then studied in Rome (1836-43) after the antique ; returned to Vienna, and in 1845 went to Holstein, and in 1847 to Copenhagen, where he painted several members of the Danish court. After living a few years in Munich, he was called in 1850 to Vienna as temporary professor at the Academy, but resigned after one term and opened a school of painting, where he instructed eighty pupils, among whom were Bitterlich, Eisenmeuger, Griepenkerl, Lotz, and Than. For years disregarded and slight- ed his grand compositions for the decora- tion of the Vienna Arsenal having also been refused he at last obtained deserved prom- inence through the patronage of Baron Siua, executed a number of monumental exterior and interior decorations in palaces and public buildings of Vienna, and in 1863 was nominated professor at the Academy. Works, Altarpieces : Madonna (1829); Bap- tism of Christ (1830) ; Marriage of the Vir- gin, St. Joseph of Calasanz (1841), Pia- ristenkirche, Vienna ; Assumption (1848) ; Trinity, St. Catharine, St. Simon, St. Georg, Madonna, Greek Church, Vienna. Mythol- ogy and Allegory : Prometheus rejecting Pandora (1834), Development of the Sci- ences in Greece (I860), Jason taking the Golden Fleece, Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1861), Rape of Helen (1863), Baron Sina, Vienna; Arion singing to the Nereids (1848); Orestes serving Omphale (1860) ; Four Elements (1861) ; Four Cardinal Virtues of Austria's Regents, Vienna Academy ; Boreas eloping with Eireithyia, Munich Art Union ; Arts of Peace (12, 1861), Heiurichshof, Vienna. History : David hiding in Cave of Adullam (1832); Confederation on the Rotli in 1307 ; Hagen declared Siegfried's Murderer (1835), Charles of Anjou finding Manfred's Body (1838), Vienna Museum ; Hagen and Volker before Chriemhilde's Door (1836); Persecu- tion of Christians in Rome (1844), Kunst- halle, Hamburg ; replica (1847), National Gallery, Berlin ; Bishop Kolouitsch bring- ing Christian Prisoners from Turkish Camp (1853) ; Samson and Delilah (1854) ; Man- fred's Entry into Luceria in 1254 ; Moses protecting Reuel's Daughters ; Leopold the Virtuous on the Walls of Ptolemais. Genre and Landscape : Woman saving her Child from Lion (1834) ; Rugantino, Old Catalo- nian, Old Roman (1838); Woman from Pro- cida (1839) ; View near Terraciua (1840) ; Neapolitan Marinaro singing to his Sweet- heart (1841) ; Fortune-Teller (1841), Liech- tenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Rural Scene near Rome, Girl at the Well (1842); Lute-Player (1850) ; Italian Woman with Tambourine (1853) ; do. at the Well (1856). Portrait* : The Painters Wiichter (1834), Riepenhau- sen (1846), Cornelius, Genelli, Heinrich Hess, Kaulbach (1848), Aigner (1851), Ko- vacs, Ricard (1854), Willers (1857), the sculptors Braudcnburger (1836), Martin
 * pursued by the Furies (1852) ; Hercules
 * Wagner (1838), Hiihnel (1850), and Pilz,

the architects Ernst and Hansen (1854), the poets Robert Prutz (1848), Ludwig A. Frankl (1855), the philosopher Ludwig Feu- erbach (1848), all at the Deutches Hoch- stift, Frankfort ; Martin Wagner, New Pi- uakothek, Munich ; Ernst Willers, Old Man, Two Female Heads, Schack Gallery, ib. ; the poets Keruer (1833), Schwab, Lenau,