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 on the Cotswolds, and Road to Gloucester. In 1876 he received a medal at Philadelphia. Obtained much repute in 1866 by the Poacher's Nurse. Elected an A.R.A. in 1878, and R.A. in 1881. Works: Strayed from the Flock, Long Sleep (1866); Charity (1870); Circe and the Companions of Ulysses, Come Back (1871); Daniel in the Den of Lions (1872); Argus (1873); Apollo (1874); War Time, Last of the Garrison (1875); A Stern Chase, Swineherd's Dogs, Pallas Athenæ (1876); Legend of St. Patrick, Lazarus (1877); Lions, Sympathy, An Anxious Moment, Victims (1878); Poacher's Widow, In manus tuas—Domine (1879); Night-Watch, Endymion, Last Spoonful (1880); Envy, Hatred and Malice, Hope Deferred, Roman Holiday, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (1881); The King Drinks, Magician's Doorway (1882); Giants at Play, Herd of Swine, Old Playfellows, Last of the Crew (1883); Eve of St. Bartholomew, King and his Satellites, Actæon, Enchanted Castle (1884); Stolen Kisses, After Naseby, Sheepstealers, Væ Victis (1885); Rizpah, Union is Strength, The Exile (1886).—Art Journal (1878), 5, 145; Meynell, 141; Portfolio (1880), 141.

RIXENS, JEAN ANDRÉ, born at Saint-Gaudens (Haute-Garonne); contemporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Gérôme. Medals: 3d class, 1871; 2d class, 1881. Works: Morning Farewell (1868); Death of Cleopatra; Cæsar's Body; May Jane (1879); Harvesters in the Pyrenees (1880); Death of Agrippina (1881); Head of Old Man (1882); Glory (1883); Coquetry, Study (1884); Don Juan (1886).

RIZI, FRANCISCO, born in Madrid in 1608, died in the Escorial, Aug. 2, 1685. Spanish school; son of Antonio Rizi, a painter of Bologna, who accompanied Federigo Zucchero to Spain in 1585; pupil of Vincenzio Carducho. Appointed in 1653 painter to Cathedral of Toledo, and in 1656 painter to Philip IV., an honour which he enjoyed also under Charles II. A very rapid worker, who painted many superficial pictures in Madrid and Toledo, and did much to aid the decline of art in Spain. Works: Auto da Fe in 1680, Portrait of a General, Madrid Museum.—Stirling, ii. 696; Viardot, 272; Madrazo, 554.

RIZI, Fray JUAN, born in Madrid in 1595, died at Monte Cassino, Italy, in 1675. Spanish school; brother of Francisco Rizi, pupil of Juan Bautista Mayno; in 1626 became a Benedictine monk at Montserrat, and, after filling several conventual offices, was made abbot of Medina del Campo. Painted many altarpieces and religious pictures, and won so much fame for his talents and his piety that all the houses of his order were anxious to have him as an inmate. In his old age he went to Italy, and the Pope conferred on him an Italian bishopric, but he did not live to take it. Work: St. Francis receiving the Stigmata, Madrid Museum.—Stirling, ii. 693; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Viardot, 270; Madrazo, 561.

RIZO. See Francesco da Santa Croce.

RIZPAH, Georges Becker, canvas. The seven sons of Saul, whom David delivered to the Gibeonites to be hanged to avert the famine, are seen suspended from a lofty gibbet, beneath which Rizpah is fighting away a large eagle, come to prey upon the dead (2 Sam., xxi. 10). Painted in 1873; Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876.—Art Gal. Phil. Ex., 33.

By Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. × 4 ft. Rizpah watching the bodies of her sons. Turner Collection. Engraved, with alterations, in Liber Studiorum.—Cat. Nat. Gal.

RIZZONI, ALESSANDRO, born at Riga, Jan. 23, 1836. Genre painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, where he won the grand prize in 1860; visited Germany, Bel