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 RIBERA, ROMAN; contemporary. Genre painter. Works: Popular Paris Types, Vengan Penas! Unforeseen Case, At the Theatre (1883); At Break of Day (1884).—La Ilustracion (1883), i. 26, 91, 210, 362; (1884), i. 26.

RIBERA Y FERNANDEZ, Don JUAN ANTONIO, born in Madrid, May 17, 1779, died there, June 15, 1860. History and portrait painter, pupil of Bayeu, and of San Fernando Academy, then in Paris of David; afterwards went to Rome and in 1811 became court painter to Charles IV. and member of Accademia di S. Luca; in 1820 honorary member of Academia S. Fernando; lived at Navalcarnero from 1835, became professor in 1838, and afterwards second director of the Madrid Museum. Works: Cincinnatus, Wamba, Allegories of Summer, Autumn, Evening, Night, Madrid Museum; St. Ferdinand surrounded by Famous Spaniards, Royal Palace, Madrid; Paradise of Great Spaniards; Christ crowned with Thorns, Resurrection, Aranjuez; Portrait of Cardinal Ingranzo, Toledo Cathedral; do. of Sculptor José Alvarez.

RIBOT, (AUGUSTIN) THÉODULE, born at Breteuil (Eure), Aug. 8, 1823. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Glaize. Style vigorous, realistic, and somewhat coarse. Medals: 1864, 1865; 3d class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Cooks at Dinner Time, Merry Cook, Chickens Roosting (1861); Rooster's Song, Tinsmiths (1864); St. Sebastian (1865), Christ and the Doctors (1866), Luxembourg Museum; Torture (1867), Rouen Museum; Philosophers; Lawyers and the Oyster (1868); Good Samaritan (1870), Luxembourg Museum; Old Man (1882); Parchments, Artist's Daughter (1884); Père Bresteau, Marie (1886); Artist's Children, Col. Erwin Davis, New York.—L'Art (1880), xxi. 127; Bellier, ii. 370; Claretie (1874), 62, 110; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 500.

RICARD, GUSTAVE, born at Marseilles, Sept. 1, 1823, died in Paris, Jan. 23, 1872. Portrait painter, pupil of Cogniet; took the great colourists of the Italian school and Van Dyck for his models. He excelled in rendering individual characteristics. Medals: 2d class, 1851; 1st class, 1852. Works: Madame Sabatier (1850); Marshal Comte Harispe, Versailles Museum; Diodore Rahoult, painter, Grenoble Museum; Émile Loubon, painter, Marseilles Museum; Male Portrait, Montpellier Museum; do., and Artist's Portrait, Luxembourg Museum.—Bellier, ii. 371; Meyer, Gesch., 385.

RICCI, CAMILLO, born at Ferrara in 1580, died there in 1618. Lombard school; pupil and assistant of Scarsellino, whose manner he followed so exactly that his works are sometimes confounded with his master's. Although he died young he left enough pictures of merit to insure him an honourable place among his countrymen.—Lanzi, iii. 209; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise.

RICCI, MARCO, born at Belluno in 1679, died in Venice in 1729. Venetian school; nephew, pupil, and associate of Sebastiano Ricci, whom he accompanied in 1710 to France and England, where he painted landscapes and architecture pieces, to be found in many collections. Though seldom without merit, these are little more than studies, executed, like the pictures of his uncle, in a slight and hasty way. In the Dresden Museum are ten of his landscapes. In Vienna: Landscape with Baptism of Christ, Museum; Two Landscapes, Liechtenstein Gallery.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Bartsch, xxi. 312.

RICCI, SEBASTIANO, born at Cividale di Belluno in 1659, died in Venice, May 15, 1734. Venetian school; pupil in Venice of