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 RUSS, LEANDER, born in Vienna, Sept. 23, 1809, died at Rustendorf, near Vienna, March 8, 1864. History and genre painter, son of and first instructed by Karl Russ, then pupil of Vienna Academy; visited Italy, and in 1833 the East. Works: Defence of a Bastion by Vienna Citizens in 1683 (1837), Vienna Museum; The End of the Flood (1828); Ivanhoe liberating Rebecca (1830); Two Scenes in Don Quixote (1832); Maria von Sickingen interceding for Götz von Berlichingen (1835); Leopold VII. of Babenberg opening his Treasury to City of Vienna (1837); Episode in Austrian War of Succession, 1741 (1848).—Wurzbach, xxvii. 288.

RUSS, ROBERT, born in Vienna, June 7, 1847. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Albert Zimmermann, whom he accompanied on several study trips, and in whose place he became professor at Vienna Academy in 1871. Gold medal, 1869. Works: Pine Forest (1869); Views near Eisenerz (4, 1870); Fürstenburg near Burgeis (1871), Castle Heidelberg, Vienna Museum; Wind Mill in Rotterdam, Canal in Venice (1873); Wood Landscape (1874); Pilgrims' Procession; Scene in the Wurstel Prater, Vienna; St. Paul's Cemetery at Botzen (1882); View near Meran, Italian Landscape (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 453; Wurzbach, xxvii. 291; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 372; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 163.

RUSTIC CHILDREN, Thomas Gainsborough, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 1 ft. 6 in. × 1 ft. 2 in. Evening; a girl standing, with a child in her arms, and a boy with a bundle of faggots, seated; in background, right, a cottage. Engraved by G. B. Shaw in Art Journal.—Brock-Arnold, 64; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Art Journal (1850), 102.

RUSTIC CIVILITY, William Collins, Chatsworth; wood, H. 1 ft. 6 in. × 2 ft. A ragged boy holding open a gate for the squire; a smaller child hides shyly behind his brother, and a third, with a dog, peeps through the bars. The approach of the rider is indicated only by the shadow of his horse and himself in the foreground. Royal Academy, 1832; to Duke of Devonshire, 250 guineas; repetition (1834), S. Kensington Museum. Engraved by Outrim; C. Cousen.—Wilkie Collins, Memoirs, ii. 10, 347; Painters of Georgian Era, 72; Art Journal (1865), 234.

RUSTIC TOILET, Thomas Faed, Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York; canvas. A young girl seated before a table, on which is propped up a broken looking-glass, with both hands raised arranging her hair; at left, a child, standing.

RUSTIGE, HEINRICH VON, born at Werl, Westphalia, April 12, 1810. History, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow; went in 1836 to Frankfort, whence he made prolonged study trips to Vienna, Hungary, Dresden, Berlin, Belgium, France, and England, and in 1845 became professor at the art school in Stuttgart, and inspector of the royal galleries. Medal, London, 1874; Würtemberg Crown Order; Bavarian Order of Michael. Works: French Invalid (1832); Prayer in Storm (1836), Inundation Scene, National Gallery, Berlin; Interrupted Meal, Rustic genre Scene, Carlsruhe Gallery; Rhenish Kirmess (1838); Quartering in Hungary; Village Physician; Rubens in his Pupils' Studio; Duke of Alva at Rudolstadt (1861), Emperor Otto I. after Conquest of the Danes, Capuchin Monk trying to convert Gypsies, Stuttgart Museum; Till Eulenspiegel; Transportation of Remains of Otto III. over the Alps, Stettin Museum; Emperor Frederic II. at Palermo; Crusaders in the Desert; Rubens taking his Wife to Studio of his Pupils; The Recovered Child; Queen Elizabeth attending Performance of Merry Wives (1882); Roman Banquet (1883).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1863), ii. 31; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 546; Müller, 454; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 288; Riegel, D. Kunststud., 421.

RUTH AND BOAZ, Alexandre Cabanel, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York; can