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RUMP, CHRISTIAN GOTTFRED, born at Hillerod, Dec. 8, 1816, died at Frederiksborg, May 25, 1880. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Lund; painted at first history and portraits, visited Norway in 1855-56, and Germany in 1856-1857; became member of Copenhagen Academy in 1866, and professor in 1874. Works: Presentation in the Temple (1842); Heath in Jutland (1849); View in Säbygaards Forest (1854); Norö Valley (1856); Four Seasons (1864); Turf Pit near Frederiksborg (1848), Morning in a Forest, ib. (1851), Forest Stream in Jutland (1854), View of Skaergård Reefs, Sweden (1855), Woodland near Frederiksborg (1860), Landscape, ib. (1879), Winter Scene (1880), Copenhagen Gallery.—Sig. Müller, 301; Weilbach, 595.

RUMPF, PHILIPP, born in Frankfort, Dec. 19, 1831. Genre painter, pupil of Städel Institute in Frankfort under Rustige; visited Munich, Dresden, Paris, and North Italy, and settled at Kronberg, near Frankfort. Works: Poor Flower Girl; Ladies in a Park; Young Lady Artist; Mother and Child.—Kaulen, 306; Muller, 453.

RUMPLER, FRANZ, born at Tachau, Bohemia, in 1848. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Engerth; is compared, by prominent Vienna art critics, to Knaus. His portraits are in the manner of the old Dutch masters. Professor in Vienna. Works: Goose Herd; Morning Prayers, Evening Prayers (1871); Little Patient; At Grandmother's (1873); Secret Treasure; Good Friendship, T. A. Havemeyer, New York; In the Park; Flowers and Pearls (1876); Leisure Hours (1879); Neapolitan Woman's Head, Woman from Dachau, Only Scholar in the Family (1883).—Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 509; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiii. 353; xv. 332.

RUNCIMAN, ALEXANDER, born in Edinburgh, in 1736, died there, Oct. 21, 1785. History painter, pupil of Foulis's Academy, Glasgow; went about 1766 to Rome and studied five years, painting there his large picture—Nausicaä at Play with her Maidens. Returning in 1772, he settled the next year in Edinburgh, where he was appointed manager to the Trustees' Academy. He decorated the great hall of Pennicuik with scenes from Ossian, and painted The Prodigal Son, Cymon and Iphigenia, Sigismunda weeping over the Heart of Guiscardo, and other works. His brother, John (1744-66), an artist of much promise, accompanied him to Italy and died at Naples; in the National Gallery, Edinburgh, are by him: Flight into Egypt, King Lear in the Storm, and Portrait of a Youth.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 305; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise.

RUNK, FERDINAND, born at Freiburg, in the Breisgau, in 1746, died in Vienna in 1834. Landscape painter; made himself known through a fine cycle of eight paintings, in which, by light effects, colour, and reproduction of forms on the surface of earth and water, and of the vegetation, he represented the progress of nature from the highest ice-peak down to the sea-coast. Other works: View of the Glurnser Valley in Tyrol, Museum, Vienna; do. in a Park, Harrach Gallery, ib.

RUSS, KARL, born in Vienna, May 10, 1779, died there, Sept. 19, 1843. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Maurer; was afterwards much influenced by Eberhard Wächter, and in 1818 became custodian of the Belvedere. Works: Tiresias predicting Future of Hercules; Philip of Macedonia rescued by his Son (1805); Carità romana (1806); Hecuba bewailing her Children, Vienna Museum; Christoph von Liechtenstein recognized by his Shield, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; thirty-seven pictures from Austrian History.—N. Necrol. d. D. (1843), 832; Wurzbach, xxvii. 277.