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 Erigone, King of Garb's Betrothed (1849); View of St. Peter's in Rome, Lamentano Bridge, Tower of Cervaro, Mary Magdalen's Conversion (1850); Italian Beggar Woman (1852); Christ healing the Paralytic, Love fleeing from Drunkenness (1853, bought by State); Christ healing a Sick Woman (1855); St. Nicholas saving the Sick (1857); Christ and the Children, Young Mother (1861); St. Peter of Alcantara healing a Child (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Baptism of Christ (1865), Préfecture de la Seine, Paris; Beheading of John Baptist (1866), Besançon Museum; Christ on the Cross (1868), Palais de Justice; Castle in Spain (1870); Forget-Me-Not (1872); Education of Achilles (1873); Don't awaken a Sleeping Cat, Toilet (1874); First Lesson on the Violin (1875); Dove (1876); Arab Woman, Chinese Doll (1877); The Feast in the Pharisee's House (1882); Around the Fountain (1884); Port de la Joliette (1886); Ignorance is Bliss, Mrs. D. D. Colton, San Francisco; decorations in St. Vincent de Paul and St. Séverin, Paris, and in other churches.—Bellier, ii. 376.

RICHTER, ADOLF, born at Thorn in 1816, died at Düsseldorf, Nov. 20, 1852. Genre painter, pupil of Academy at Düsseldorf, where he settled, and became very popular with well composed and effectively coloured scenes from home life, especially such as introduced children. Works: Christmas Eve (1837); Vintage on the Moselle (1839); do. on the Rhine (1840); Hessian Emigrants on Seashore (1841); Souvenir of Cologne Carnival (1841); Sunday Afternoon in the Country (1842); Morning on the Ahr (1846); Last Comfort (1847); The Fifth Child (1848); Children's Breakfast (1849); Rhenish Village Life (1850); Return of Landwehrmann (1851); Before the Village School (1852).—Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 268; Wiegmann, 316.

RICHTER, (ADRIAN) LUDWIG, born in Dresden, Sept. 28, 1803, died at Loschwitz, near Dresden, June 19, 1884. Landscape and genre painter and illustrator, son and pupil of the engraver Karl August Richter; went in 1820 with Prince Narischkin through France to Nice, travelled and studied afterwards in the German Alps, and in 1823-26 in Italy. Appointed instructor in drawing at the porcelain factory in Meissen in 1828; called to the Dresden Academy in 1836, and professor there in 1841-76. Has illustrated many works. Ph.D., Leipsic University; honorary member of Berlin, Munich, and Vienna Academies; Commander, Saxon Order of Albert; Order of Francis Joseph; Bavarian Order of Michael. Works: The Watzmann at Sunset (1824); Valley of Amalfi, View near Rocca di Mezzo (1823-26); Lauterbrunn Valley; Views in the Campagna and in the Apennines; Ariccia, Civitella (1827); Storm on Monte Serrone near Olevano (1830), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Ferry at the Schreckenstein near Aussig (1837), Spring Landscape with Bridal Procession (1847), Dresden Gallery; View in Sabine Mountains (1825), Valley near Amalfi (1826), The Schreckenstein near Aussig (1835), Evening Landscape with Worshippers (1842), Harvest Procession in Roman Campagna, Leipsic Museum; View in the Riesengebirge (1839), National Gallery, Berlin; Richter Album.—Hoff, A. L. Richter (Frankfort, 1877); Jahn, Biogr. Aufsätze; Richter, Lebenserinnerungen; Wessely, Ad. L. R. (Vienna, 1883); Allgem. K. C., viii. 531, 573; Brockhaus, xiii. 693; Förster, v. 434; Illustr. Zeitg. (1883), ii. 266; Jordan (1885), ii. 182; Reber, ii. 261; Graph. K., vi. 1; D. Kunstbl. (1850), 407; (1851), 208, 410; (1852), 12; (1853), 251; (1855), 131, 390; (1856), 451; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 605, 645; Kunst f. Alle, i. 47; Müller, 437; Pecht, i. 57; Land und Meer (1869), i. 171; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 257; xviii. 377; xxi. 36; xii. (Mittheilungen, v. 1).

RICHTER, AUGUST, born at Dresden, June 3, 1801, died at Pirna, Nov. 19, 1873.