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 RIGAUD Michael, 1727. Works : Cain building the City of Enoch (1C82) ; Crucifixion (1G84) ; Presentation in the Temple, St. Andrew, Portrait of Louis XIV. (1701), Philip V. of Spain, Bossuet (1705), Le Brun and Mi guard, Cardinal Polignac, and nine others, Louvre ; Louis XIV., Louis XV. (4, two dated 1715, 1730), Mignard, Portrait of him- self, twelve others, Versailles Museum ; Pierre Puget, Amiens Museum ; Saint-Si- mon, Bishop of Metz, Marshal Noailles, Grenoble Museum ; Louis XIV., Metz Mu- seum ; Fontenelle, Montpellier Museum ; Marshal Turenne, Nimes Museum ; Louis XV., Rouen Museum ; Philip of Orleans, Eacine, Toulouse Museum ; Louis XIV., Valenciennes Museum ; others in Museums at Chartres, Douai, Lyons (2), Nantes, Or- leans, Strasburg, Basle, Geneva, Zurich (2); Sculptor Bogaert, Berlin Museum ; Portrait of himself, Cassel Gallery ; Cardinal Fleury, Knight of St. Michael, Darmstadt Museum ; Augustus III. of Poland, Dresden Museum ; Louis XPV., Madrid Museum ; Fontenelle, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Bossuet, Por- trait of himself, Uffizi, Florence ; Cardinal Fleury, National Gallery, London ; others in Bamberg and Carlsruhe (2) Galleries ; Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Museum (2), Liechtenstein (1740) and Czernin Galleries, Vienna ; Naples Museum ; Historical Soci- ety, New York (2). His brother Gaspard (born at Perpignan, baptized June 1, 1661, / iLy ///v died in Paris, March 27, 1705), was also a portrait painter of merit, several of whose works are probably attributed to his more famous brother. Bellier, ii. 381 ; Ch. Blanc, tfcole franyaise ; Dohme, 3 ; Houssaye, 140 ; Jal, 1062 ; Mi'moirs inedits, ii. 114 ; Nagler, xiii. 179 ; Wurzbach, Fr. Mai. des XVIH. Jahrh., 6. EIGAUD, JOHN FRANCIS, born at Tu- rin, Italy, May 18, 1742, died at Packing- ton, England, Dec. G, 1810. History and portrait painter, son of a French merchant ; early studied art and became painter to the King of Sweden ; afterwards studied in Rome, Bologna, and Parma, and in 1766 was elected a member of the Bologna Acad- emy. Went in 1772 to Paris, and thence to London, where he became an exhibitor at the Royal Academy, was elected an A.R.A. in 1782, and R.A. in 1784. His diploma picture was entitled Samson. He painted also in fresco, and decorated ceilings, and translated into English Leonardo da Vinci's "Treatise on Painting" (1806). Redgrave. RIGO, JULES (VINCENT ALFRED), born in Paris in 1810. Battle painter, pu- pil of L. Cogniet. Medals : 3d class, 1857 ; 2d class, 1859, 1861, 1863. Works : Bona- parte at Siege of Toulon 1783 (1849), Min- istry of Interior, Paris ; Crossing of the Tagliamento in 1809, Taking of Zaatcha , 1849 (1853), French Surgeons at Battle of Inkerman 1854 (1857), Marshal Canrobert in Trenches of Sebastopol (1859), Portrait of Mayor of Versailles (1856), Versailles Museum ; Baptism of Clovis (1859, bought by the State) ; Battle of Magenta (1861) ; do. of Solferino (1866) ; Totila King of the Goths visiting St. Benedict (1865), Com- munion of St. Benedict (1867), St. Etienne du Mont, Paris ; Crossing of the Beresina 1812 (1870); Charge of Cuirassiers at Reichs- hoffen (1879) ; Start for the Promenade (1880). Bellier, ii. 382. RILEY, JOHN, born in London in 1646, died there in 1691. Portrait painter, pupil of Gerard Soest and of Isaac Fuller; be- came noted after death of Lely, and had among his sitters Charles H., James H. and his Queen, and William and Mary, to whom