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 *vas, H. 4 ft. 10 in. × 8 ft. The hostess, seated at the right upon a sofa, is the centre of a group including Canova, Cuvier, Fouché, Delille, and Metternich, while at the other end of the salon a second group, including Lucien Bonaparte, Talleyrand, Brillat-Savarin, Talma, Bernadotte, and Sieyès, are gathered around Madame de Staël. Royal Academy, 1885.

RECCO, GIUSEPPE, born at Naples in 1634, died there in 1695. Neapolitan school; still-life painter, pupil of Porpera, but seems to have been influenced by other masters, especially Marseus van Schrick. The King of Spain made him a knight of Calatrava in 1667 and summoned him to his court. Works: Four pictures with Fish and other Marine Animals, Madrid Museum; Dead Fish watched by Dog, Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; Fruit-Piece, Hausmann Collection, Hanover; Animal Life around Pool (2), Schwerin Gallery; Fishes, Wiesbaden Gallery; Flowers and Dead Game, Naples Museum; A Thief, New York Museum. His daughter Elena excelled in the same branch of art.—Madrazo; Schlie, 513.

RECHBERGER, FRANZ, born in Vienna, Oct. 4, 1771, died there in 1842. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under F. A. Brandt; afterwards custodian of the Albertina in Vienna. Works: Landscape with Temple of Vesta, Vienna Academy; Views in Italy, Styria, Saxony.—Wurzbach, xxv. 95; Nagler, Mon., ii. 863.

REDGRAVE, RICHARD, born in London, April 30, 1804. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of Royal Academy, where he exhibited his first picture, River Brent near Hanwell, in 1825; elected an A.R.A. in 1840, and R.A. in 1850; is an honorary retired Academician. Has held several official positions in the government art institutions and is general inspector of art schools. Works: Cymbeline (1833); Gulliver on the Farmer's Table (1837); Quinten Massys, Olivia's Return (1838); Reduced Gentleman's Daughter, Cure of Paracelsus (1840); Vicar of Wakefield finding his Lost Daughter (1841); Ophelia, Cinderella (1842); Fashion's Slaves (1847); Country Cousins (1848); Marquis and Griselda (1850); Flight into Egypt (1851); Well-Known Footstep, Moorland Child (1857); Strayed Flock (1861); Way through the Woods (1863); Jane Shore (1864); Woodman's Dinner (1866); Eugene Aram (1868); Jack-o'-Lantern (1870); Charcoal Burners (1871); Expectation (1872); Sermons in Stones (1874); Mill Pool, Starting for a Holiday (1875); Calling the Sheep, Oak of the Millhead (1876); Deserted (1877); The Heir Come of Age, Friday Street (1878); Hidden Among the Hills (1881).—Art Journal (1850), 48; (1859), 205; Zeitschr. f. b. K., v. 375.

REFORMATION, AGE OF, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, New Museum, Berlin; mural painting, staircase hall. Church interior; Luther, standing before the altar, in centre, raises the Bible in his hands; at sides, people at communion; the aisles are filled with modern representative men; in background, a choir singing. Cartoon, Mrs. Durfee, Fall River, Mass.

REGEMORTER, IGNATIUS JOSEPHUS VAN, born at Antwerp, Dec. 4, 1785, died there, July 20, 1873. Landscape and genre painter, son and pupil of Petrus Johannes van Regemorter. He went in 1809 to Paris, where he studied after the masterpieces in the Musée Napoleon, and then from nature on the banks of the Meuse, and in Luxembourg. Won prizes in Antwerp, Ghent, and Brussels; member of Institute of the Netherlands in 1829, and of Amsterdam Academy. Order of Leopold, 1855. Works: Fishmarket of Antwerp (1827), Jan Steen's Household (1828), Am