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 KITTEE (1847), Vienna Museum ; End of Church- Day (1846) ; Bequest of Grand-parents (1847) ; Ballad Singer (1848) ; Farewell of the Bride (1850) ; Rural Meal, Singing Re- hearsal (1851) ; Bout at Inn, End of a Vil- lage Church-Day (1852). Wurzbach, xxvi. 179. RITTER, HENRY, born at Montreal, May 24, 1816, died at Diisseldorf, Dec. 21, 1853. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Groger in Hamburg, whither he went early in life, then of Dusseldorf Academy under Sohn, where he was much attracted by Jordan ; excelled in representing epi- sodes from sailor-life, with great vividness and brilliant colouring. Works : Smug- glers attacked by Dragoons (1839) ; The Boaster (1841) ; Betrothal in Normandy (1842), Leipsic Museum ; Fisherman's Son Drowned (1844), Ravene Gallery, Berlin ; Poacher (1847); Fire in the Prairies (1851), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Middy's Sermon (1852), Cologne Museum. Cotta's Kunstbl. (1846), No. 63 ; Forster, v. 395 ; Hagen, i. 353; Wolfg. Miiller, Dusseldf. K, 224; Wiegmann, 313. RITTER, PAUL, born in Nuremberg, March 4, 1829. Architecture painter, pupil of Heideloff ; became deaf and dumb when four years of age ; travelled in France, Aus- tria, Denmark, and Italy. Gold medal, Ber- lin, 1880. Works : Sacrament Shrine in St. Lawrence, Nuremberg ; Choir of St. Law- rence, ib. ; Court of Old Post Office, ib. ; Peller Hof, ib. ; Well in Time of Thirty Years' War, ib. ; Arrival of Crown Jewels in 1424 (1883), City Hall, Nuremberg. His brother, Lorenz (born Nov. 27, 1832), paint- ed for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg many views in Nuremberg and Heidelberg; View of Pentagonal Tower in Nuremberg (1882), Entry of Gustavus Adolphus into Nuremberg (1884). Mttller, 441 ; Kunst- Chronik, xvii. 353 ; xix. 94 ; Ulustr. Zeitg. (1884), i. 131; Land und Meer (1887), i. 15. RIVALZ, ANTOINE, born at Toulouse, March 6, 1667, died there, Dec. 7, 1735. French school ; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jean Pierre Rivalz (1625- 1706), then studied in Paris and in Rome, where he received the first prize of the Ac- cademia di San Luca from the hands of Pope Clement XI. After his return to his native city he painted, during thirty years, many pictures relating to its history, and in 1726 established an art school, which was raised to the rank of an academy in 1750. Works : Foundation of City of Ancyra, Sosthenes King of Macedon taken Prisoner, Litto- rius vanquished by Theodoric, Raymond de Saint-Gilles taking the Cross in 1096, Defeat of Henry H. of England before Toulouse in 1159, The Huguenots expelled from Tou- louse in 1562, Pope Urban H. consecrating Church of St. Saturnin, Portrait of the Ar- tist, five others, Toulouse Museum ; Diana and Actseon, Narbonne Museum. Bellier, ii. 387 ; Ch. Blanc, cole fran9aise, ii. RIVER, GOING DOWN TO THE, Alma- Tadema, W. H. Vanderbilt Collection, New York ; canvas, H. 2 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. A Ro- man lady, attended by her little daughter and a slave-girl, descending stairs leading down to the Tiber, with two ferrymen clam- ouring for custom ; at right, the river, with a marble bridge in background, and a galley coming into view through one of its arches. Art Treasures of America, iii. 95. RIVEY, ARSENE, born at Caen; con- temporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Picot, Couture, and Bonnat. Med- al, 3d class, 1880. Works : Intimacy (1870); Brenda (1873); St. Sebastian (1876); David appeasing the Anger of Saul (1878); Nea- politan Woman (1881); Flemish Gentleman (1882); Estudiante (1883); In the Armoury, A Missive (1884); Study (1886). RIVIERE, BRITON, born in London, Aug. 14, 1840. Subject and animal painter, son and pupil of William Riviere (1806- 1876), teacher of drawing at Cheltenham College and afterwards at Oxford, where Briton took his degree of A.B. in 1867. Ex- hibited in 1858-59, at the Royal Academy, pictures entitled Rest from Labour, Sheep 50