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 HEUNIER at Rome in 1769 ; returned to Paris, won the 2d prix in 1775 and the grand prix de Home in 1776, with his Alexander and Diogenes. Member French Academy, 1783; professor in 1795 ; received the title of baron in 1819. i His school was for a time the rival of that of David. Among his pupils were Hersent, Gucrin, Blondel, Boissellier, and Richomme. Works : Baptism of Christ (1776) ; Educa- tion of Achilles (1783), Descent from the Cross (1789), Pygmalion and Venus (1785), Origin of Painting, Three Graces, Louvre ; Death of Priam (1785), Amiens Museum ; Cupid and Psyche, The Three Graces, An- gers Museum ; Education of Achilles (sketch for painting in Louvre), Avignon Museum ; Deluge, Compiegne Palace ; Pygmalion in Love with his Statue, Foutainebleau Palace ; Orestes and Iphigenia meeting in Tauris (1787), Marseilles Museum ; Male Heads (2), Montpellier Museum ; Young Girl, Orleans Museum ; The Senate receiving the Flags captured in the Campaign against Austria (1808), Marriage of Prince Jerome Bona- parte (1810), Death of General Desaix at Marengo, Portrait of Comte Montalivet (1810), Versailles Museum ; A Genius show- ing to France Liberty or Death (1795), / VjzmMAJui' Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Bellier, ii. 351; Ch. Blanc, Ecole franyaise ; Journal des Artistes, 1829 ; Lejeune, Guide, i. 387 ; L'Universel (1829), No. 339 ; Meyer, Gesch., 77 ; Quatremere de Quincy, Notice histo- rique sur la vie, etc. (Paris, 1834); Villot, Cat. Louvre. REGNIER, JACQUES AUGUSTIN, born in Paris, Aug. 28, 1787, died there, June 2, 1860. Landscape painter, pupil of Victor Bertiu. Medals : 2d class, 1819 ; 1st class, 1828 ; L. of Honour, 1837. Works : Woods in Puy ; Coucy-le-Chateau ; Paris from the Champ de Mai's ; King Arthur's Tomb ; Monks Praying ; Joan of Arc, Fontainebleau Gallery ; Cemetery of Royat ; Bridge of Ba- tigny, Drinkiug-Place at Pierrefouds (1834); SaintJean-au-Bois ; Forest of Compiegne, Ruins of Pierrefouds (1835); View in Forest of Compiegne (1836); View near the Grande Chartreuse of Grenoble (1850), Chartres Museum ; Entrance to Forest, Arras Mu- seum ; Carthusian Monastery in Auvergne, Toulouse Museum. Bellier, ii. 353. REGULUS LEAVING ROME, Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 3 f t. x 4 ft Marcus Atilius Reg- ulus was allowed by the Carthaginians to go back to Rome, after five years' captivity, in order to negotiate a peace, promising to return if unsuccessful. He advised the Sen- ate not to make peace, and, fulfilling his prom- ise, was put to death, about B.C. 250. Paint- ed in Rome, 1829 ; British Institute, 1837 ; Turner Collection. Engraved by D. Wil- son ; S. Bradshaw in Turner Gallery. REHBERG, FRIEDRICH, bora at Han- over, Oct. 22, 1758, died in Munich, Aug. 20, 1835. History and portrait painter, pupil in Leipsic of Oeser and in Dresden of Casanova and Schenau ; went in 1777 to Rome, where he studied the old masters under Mengs and was closely allied with David ; returned to Hanover in 1783, and painted many portraits ; went as instructor in drawing to Dessau in 1784, became mem- ber of Berlin Academy in 1786, and profes- sor in 1787 ; went again to Rome and in 1791 to Naples, visited London in 1813-14, and left Rome in 1820 to settle in Munich. Works : Belisarius (1790, prize, Berlin Acad- emy); CEdipus and Antigone (twice); Cain'8 Fratricide ; Julius Sabinus (twice); Bacchus, Cupid, and Bathyllus (8 times) ; Orpheus and Eurydice (2) ; Jupiter and Venus (twice); 18