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 RETURN FROM EGYPT, Rubens, Blenheim Palace; canvas, H. 7 ft. 6 in. × 4 ft. 11 in. The Virgin, holding Jesus by her right hand, is advancing to left; on farther side, Joseph leading the ass; in middle of picture, a palm tree. Painted about 1610. Engraved by Vorsterman (1620); Lowrie; Voet; McArdell; in reverse, anonymous. Blenheim sale (1886), £1,500, to Murray.—Waagen, Treasures, iii. 124; Smith, ii. 243.

By Rubens, Metropolitan Museum, New York; wood, H. 8 ft. 7 in. × 5 ft. 10 in. The Virgin and St. Joseph lead Infant Jesus by the hand; above, the Father looking down from heaven. Painted for Jesuits' Church, Antwerp, in 1620; bought at sale after suppression of Jesuits (1777), by M. Danoot; at his sale (1828), bought by Mr. Buchanan, London. Transferred to canvas, 1880. Engraved by Bolswert.—Smith, ii. 21; Van Hasselt, Hist. de Rubens, 248; Cat. New York Mus.

RETURN FROM HAWKING, Sir Edwin Landseer, Ellesmere Collection. The party have just halted under an arch at the entrance to the mansion; Lord Francis Egerton (afterwards first Earl of Ellesmere), who has dismounted from a white horse, held by a page, stands leaning upon the neck of a black horse, on which is seated his wife with a child in her arms; at left, the falconer with the victorious bird on his gloved hand and others on a perch suspended from his neck; in front, a little girl teasing one of the falcons, game, hounds, and pet dogs. Royal Academy, 1837. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.—Landseer Gallery.

RETURNING FROM MARKET, Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. × 4 ft. 9 in. Dutch peasants, two girls on foot and a woman and child on ponies, fording a brook on their way home from the market-town, which is seen between the trees in background. Royal Academy, 1834; Vernon Collection, 1847. Engraved by Finden; J. Cousen.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Painters of Georgian Era, 76.

REUTERN, GERHARDT WILHELM VON, born at Rösthof, Livland, July 18, 1794, died in Frankfort, March 22, 1865. History and genre painter, pupil in 1834 of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow and Hildebrandt, after having served in the Russian army and lost his right arm in the campaign of 1813; became court painter to Czar Nicolas I. in 1835 and settled in Frankfort in 1844. Works: Page in Mediæval Costume, Girl opening Jewelry Box (1835); Girl Knitting; Children's School; Domestic Devotions of Schwalmer Peasants; Mother and Child praying at a Grave; St. George issuing from Church Door; Sacrifice of Isaac (1849), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Mother with Sleeping Child (3 times); Madonna, Girl under a Tree, Three Singers in a Boat (1858-59), Summer Palace at Zarskoe Selo; Trinity, Crucifixion, Last Supper, Fall of Man, Temptation of Christ.—Andresen, iii. 223.

RÉVOIL, PIERRE, born at Lyons, June 13, 1776, died in Paris, March 19, 1842. History and genre painter, pupil of David with Fleury François Richard, whom he greatly surpassed; founder of the romantic school, which turned from the hackneyed gods and heroes of antiquity to more appealing episodes in history. Happy in the choice of his subjects from the middle ages and renaissance, he combined with an attractive conception great care in representing costumes and accessories with historical truthfulness, and a brilliant colouring. Became professor at Lyons Academy in 1809, but resigned in 1830; L. of Honour, 1814; corresponding member of the Institute, 1825. Works: The Ring of Charles V. (1810), formerly in Luxembourg Museum; The Tourney (1812), Lyons Museum; Convalescence of Bayard (1817); Jeanne d'Arc imprisoned at Rouen (1819); Jeanne d'Albret (1819), Fontainebleau Palace; Mary Stuart's Farewell of her Servants (1822); Tancred taking Possession of Bethlehem in 1099 (1840), Philippe Auguste taking the Oriflamme at Saint-Denis in 1190