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 (1847), Vienna Museum; End of Church-Day (1846); Bequest of Grand-parents (1847); Ballad Singer (1848); Farewell of the Bride (1850); Rural Meal, Singing Rehearsal (1851); Bout at Inn, End of a Village Church-Day (1852).—Wurzbach, xxvi. 179.

RITTER, HENRY, born at Montreal, May 24, 1816, died at Düsseldorf, Dec. 21, 1853. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Gröger in Hamburg, whither he went early in life, then of Düsseldorf Academy under Sohn, where he was much attracted by Jordan; excelled in representing episodes from sailor-life, with great vividness and brilliant colouring. Works: Smugglers attacked by Dragoons (1839); The Boaster (1841); Betrothal in Normandy (1842), Leipsic Museum; Fisherman's Son Drowned (1844), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Poacher (1847); Fire in the Prairies (1851), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Middy's Sermon (1852), Cologne Museum.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1846), No. 63; Förster, v. 395; Hagen, i. 353; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 224; Wiegmann, 313.

RITTER, PAUL, born in Nuremberg, March 4, 1829. Architecture painter, pupil of Heideloff; became deaf and dumb when four years of age; travelled in France, Austria, Denmark, and Italy. Gold medal, Berlin, 1880. Works: Sacrament Shrine in St. Lawrence, Nuremberg; Choir of St. Lawrence, ib.; Court of Old Post Office, ib.; Peller Hof, ib.; Well in Time of Thirty Years' War, ib.; Arrival of Crown Jewels in 1424 (1883), City Hall, Nuremberg. His brother, Lorenz (born Nov. 27, 1832), painted for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg many views in Nuremberg and Heidelberg; View of Pentagonal Tower in Nuremberg (1882), Entry of Gustavus Adolphus into Nuremberg (1884).—Müller, 441; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 353; xix. 94; Illustr. Zeitg. (1884), i. 131; Land und Meer (1887), i. 15.

RIVALZ, ANTOINE, born at Toulouse, March 6, 1667, died there, Dec. 7, 1735. French school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jean Pierre Rivalz (1625-1706), then studied in Paris and in Rome, where he received the first prize of the Accademia di San Luca from the hands of Pope Clement XI. After his return to his native city he painted, during thirty years, many pictures relating to its history, and in 1726 established an art school, which was raised to the rank of an academy in 1750. Works: Foundation of City of Ancyra, Sosthenes King of Macedon taken Prisoner, Littorius vanquished by Theodoric, Raymond de Saint-Gilles taking the Cross in 1096, Defeat of Henry II. of England before Toulouse in 1159, The Huguenots expelled from Toulouse in 1562, Pope Urban II. consecrating Church of St. Saturnin, Portrait of the Artist, five others, Toulouse Museum; Diana and Actæon, Narbonne Museum.—Bellier, ii. 387; Ch. Blanc, École française, ii.

RIVER, GOING DOWN TO THE, Alma-Tadema, W. H. Vanderbilt Collection, New York; canvas, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. A Roman lady, attended by her little daughter and a slave-girl, descending stairs leading down to the Tiber, with two ferrymen clamouring for custom; at right, the river, with a marble bridge in background, and a galley coming into view through one of its arches.—Art Treasures of America, iii. 95.

RIVEY, ARSÈNE, born at Caen; contemporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Picot, Couture, and Bonnat. Medal, 3d class, 1880. Works: Intimacy (1870); Brenda (1873); St. Sebastian (1876); David appeasing the Anger of Saul (1878); Neapolitan Woman (1881); Flemish Gentleman (1882); Estudiante (1883); In the Armoury, A Missive (1884); Study (1886).

RIVIERE, BRITON, born in London, Aug. 14, 1840. Subject and animal painter, son and pupil of William Riviere (1806-1876), teacher of drawing at Cheltenham College and afterwards at Oxford, where Briton took his degree of A.B. in 1867. Exhibited in 1858-59, at the Royal Academy, pictures entitled Rest from Labour, Sheep