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RAAB, GEORG, born in Vienna in 1821, died there, Dec. 31, 1885. Portrait, figure, and miniature painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; worked in 1841-46 in Pesth; visited Munich, and settled in Vienna, where he has had great success with ideal figures and heads, and for many years was the favourite portrait painter of the Imperial family and high aristocracy. A collection of his works was exhibited by the Austrian Art Union in April, 1886. Works: Deborah (1858); The Maiden (1862); Mignon (1869), Empress of Austria; Lady with White Veil, Vienna Museum; Portraits of Emperor and Empress (38) of Austria, Crown Prince Rudolf, Archdukes and Archduchesses, etc.—Allgem. K. C., x. 13, 298, 317; Wurzbach, xxiv. 157.

RABBIT ON THE WALL, Sir David Wilkie, Sir William G. Armstrong; canvas. Called in Scotland the Hare among the Kale. Six figures: the father making with his fingers the shadow of a rabbit on the wall, which the mother holds her babe to see; in foreground, a girl with a lighted candle; at left, two boys looking on. Painted in 1815; bought by Mr. Turner for 200 guineas; sold in 1842 to Sir W. G. Armstrong for 700 guineas. Sketch in Baring Collection. Engraved by John Burnet; W. Greatbach.—Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.; Art Journal (London, 1877), 100.

RABE, EDMUND, born in Berlin, Sept. 2, 1815. Genre and animal painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of Franz Krüger; visited in 1835 Dresden, Prague, Nuremberg, and the Baltic Coast, in 1841-42 the Netherlands, Paris, Switzerland, and Northern Italy, and in 1856 Palestine. Member of Berlin Academy in 1843. Works: Transportation of French Prisoners of War in 1813 (1838), National Gallery, Berlin; Report to Officers Carousing (1840), Schwerin Gallery; Call to Arms before Town Hall of Prussian Town in 1813; Travellers before Inn; Circus Riders in French Town.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1843), 83; D. Kunstbl. (1850), 246; Jordan (1885), ii. 175; Raczynski, iii. 113; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 287.

RACHOU, HENRI, born at Toulouse; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Bonnat. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Knitters (1881); Fishmonger, Studio Interior (1882); St. Jerome, Breton Cobbler (1883); Portraits (1884, 1885, 1886).

RADIN, SALEH, Prince, born in Java, died at Buitenzorg, near Batavia, April 23, 1881. Animal, landscape, and marine paint