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 *gium, Spain, and Portugal; lived several years in Paris, and settled in Rome in 1865. Member of St. Petersburg Academy in 1864; professor since 1869. Medals: London, Vienna. Works: Synagogue in Livonia; Interior of Roman Tavern; Visit of Cardinal to S. Onofrio; Vegetable Store at Frascati; Refectory in Capuchin Monastery in Rome; Cardinal Council.

ROBBE, LOUIS, born at Courtray, Nov. 17, 1806. Animal and landscape painter, self-taught, studying from nature since 1833; settled at Courtray in 1830, and at Brussels in 1840. Medals at Brussels (1839-42); Paris, 3d class, 1844; 2d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1845; Order of Leopold, 1843; Officer, 1863; Spanish Order of Charles III., 1844. Member Amsterdam Academy, 1855. Studio in Brussels. Works: Campine in Brabant; Sheep and Shepherd; Rest in the Pasture; Pond with Cows; Roosters after Fight; Bull attacked by Dogs, Brussels Museum; Landscape with Cattle, Ghent Museum; Sheep in Mountainous Landscape, Kunsthalle, Hamburg. His brother, Henri, is a still-life painter. Medals: Bruges, 1850; Ypres, 1855.—Immerzeel, iii. 18; Kramm, v. 1371; Vapereau (1880), 1551; Sunaert, 123.

ROBBINS, HORACE WOLCOTT, born in Mobile, Ala., Oct. 21, 1842. Landscape painter, pupil of August Weidenbach, German landscape painter, and of James M. Hart. In 1865 visited England, Holland, and France, where he received some instruction from Rousseau in Paris, and in the same year sketched in Jamaica, W. I.; in 1866 sketched in Switzerland. Elected an A.N.A. in 1864, and N.A. in 1878. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Blue Hills of Jamaica (1874); Roadside Elms; Mt. Philip; New England Homestead, Harbour Islands—Lake George (1878); Mountain Stream (1879); Summer Afternoon—Keene Valley (1880); Cloudy Afternoon, Solitude (1881); Lake Katahdin—Maine (1882); Early Autumn—Adirondacks, Twilight Hour (1883); Summer Afternoon—Essex County, Keene Valley Runway, Sun-*set—Island of Jamaica (1884); Showery Afternoon in the Mountains (1885); Darkening in the Evening Glory (1886). Water-*colours: New England Road Scene (1877); New England Homestead (1878).

RÖBER, ERNST, born at Elberfeld, June 23, 1849. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy and of Bendemann. Works: Hunting Expedition of the Nibelungs; Gods of Olympus, National Gallery, Berlin; Nymphs surprised by Fauns, Faun's Love Song (1878). His brother, Fritz (born Oct. 15, 1851), also pupil of Bendemann, painted Death of Sophonisba; The Great Elector consoling the Peasantry after Battle of Fehrbellin; then (together with his brother and with Rudolf Bendemann), Allegorical Figures, Cupid and Psyche, Groups of Genii, National Gallery, Berlin.—Müller, 443; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 647; xxi. 243, 245; D. Rundschau, xvii. 300.

ROBERT, ALEXANDRE, born at Trazegnies, Hénault, Feb. 17, 1817. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Brussels Academy under Navez, then studied in Italy, 1843-48. Medals at Brussels, 1845, 1848; Paris, 1855; Officer, Order Leopold; Order Francis Joseph of Austria. Member Royal Academy of Belgium. Studio in Brussels. Works: Ransacking of Carmelite Monastery in Antwerp, Luca Signorelli painting his Dead Son, Brussels Museum; Regret (1849), Ghent Museum; Chorus of Capuchins; Young Mendicant; Dolce far niente; Charles V. before his Death; Souvenirs of Rome and Naples.—Müller, 443; Vapereau (1880), 1553.

ROBERT, AURÈLE, born at Les Eplatures, near La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Dec. 18, 1805, died at Ried, near Bienne (Biel), Canton Berne, Dec. 21, 1871. Architecture and genre painter, brother and, from 1822, pupil in Rome of Léopold Robert, whom he accompanied on study trips in 1828-29, and, after a short separation, joined again in Paris in 1831, then in Venice in 1833, to return home after Léopold's