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 History painter, pupil of Dresden Academy, then in Düsseldorf under Cornelius, for whom he painted in fresco one of his wall pictures at Helldorf. Spent several years in Italy, and became professor in Dresden Academy. His style suggests Raphael; suddenly he fell into mannerism, and soon after became insane. Works: Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness, Dresden Museum; Rebekah and Eliezer, Weimar Museum.—Förster, v. 421; Nagler, xiii. 134.

RICHTER, ÉDOUARD, born in Paris; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Hébert and Bonnat. Works: News at the Studio (1868); Waiting (1870); At the Fortune-Teller's, Baby's Photograph (1875); The Slave's Narrative (1876); Veil Dance (1877); Jewess of Morocco (1880); Othello, Salome (1881); Harem in Old Granada (1883); Sultana going to the Bath, Young Girl with Narghileh (1884); Nymphea lotus (1885); Bazaar in Tunis, Jewess of Algiers (1886). In United States: Judith, B. Wall, Providence; Gallery of the Louvre, J. H. Stebbins, New York; In the Cathedral, W. B. Bement, Philadelphia; Love Song, T. M. Scott, San Francisco.

RICHTER, GUSTAV, born in Dessau, May 12, 1847. Landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy (1863-68) and of Max Schmidt, then studied from nature, travelling in Middle Germany; paints chiefly mountain landscapes. Works: Group of Black Poplars on the Elbe, Ducal Palace, Dessau; Forest Border; Castle Giessmannsdorf (1873); Landscape in Hartz Mountains (1874); Entrance into Bode Valley (1876).

RICHTER, GUSTAV (KARL LUDWIG), born in Berlin, Aug. 31, 1823, died there, April 3, 1884. History and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Eduard Holbein, and in Paris (1844-46) of Cogniet; studied in Rome in 1847-49, visited afterwards France and Italy repeatedly, Egypt in 1861, and the Crimea in 1873. One of the most successful portrait painters of modern times. Member of and professor in Berlin Academy; honorary member of Munich and Vienna Academies. Medals: Berlin, Paris (1855, 1857, 1859), Brussels, Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876), Munich (1883); Order pour le mérite. Works: Portrait of his Sister (1852); Daughter of Jairus (1856), National Gallery, Berlin; Baldur, The Walkyries, Walhalla, New Museum, ib.; Building of the Pyramids (1859-73), Maximilianeum, Munich; Female Portrait (1852); do. (1856); Portrait of Painter Hoguet (1862); do. of himself (1862-64); do. of Eduard Hildebrandt (1865), Dantzic Museum; Egyptian Girl, Odalisque, Neapolitan Fisher-Boy, Egyptian Dancers (1870); Pygmalion; Gypsy Girls in the Crimea (1873); Sultan Abdul Aziz (1867); Count and Countess Roberinsky; Princess Carolath (1872); Duchess of Edinburgh; Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg (1874); Hon. George Bancroft; Artist with Boy, Artist's Wife with Younger Child (1874); Banker's Wife (1876); Emperor William (1876, 1877); Empress Augusta, Countess Károlyi (1878); Prince Pless; Queen Louise (1879), Cologne Museum; Countess Dönhoff; General Count von Blumenthal (1883), National Gallery, Berlin.—Allgem. K. C., viii. 446, 902; Illustr. Zeitg. (1884), i. 338; Jordan (1885), ii. 182; Kunst-Chronik, v. 83; ix. 712; x. 51; xiii. 2; xiv. 5; xix. 442, 541; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 87; ii. 43; Müller, 438; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 191; D. Rundschau, ix. 471; xiii. 327; xvii. 303; xx. 461, 463; xxi. 148; Land und Meer (1872), i. 23; (1880), i. 47; (1884), ii. 710; Westermann's Monatshefte, liii. 40, 168; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 92, 105.

RICHTER, WILHELM, born in Vienna in 1820. Genre, battle, and animal painter, pupil of Vienna Academy. Works: Girl before Shrine (1838); View from St. Michael; Street Sweeper (1839); Uhlans Marching; Storming of a Church (1844); Sally