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 afterwards followed by another brother, Alexander, pupil in miniature painting of Shelley.—Redgrave.

ROBIE, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Brussels in 1821. Still-life painter, pupil of Brussels Academy; most of his works are in private collections in France, England, and America. Medals at Brussels (1848), Paris (1851, 1863), Hague (1861), Sydney (1879); Order of Leopold (1861); Officer (1866); Commander (1881). Studio in Brussels. Works: Garland, Grapes, The Window, The Park (1846-51); Still-Life (1853), Ghent Museum; Bread and Wine (1855); Flowers, Grapes (1863); Grapes and Still-Life (1864); Massacre of the Innocents, Promised Land (1865); Autumn, Fruits (1867); Flowers, Fruits and Accessories (1878); Flowerpiece, T. Wigglesworth, Boston; do., A. Adams, Watertown; H. B. Hurlbut, Cleveland; J. J. O'Fallon, St. Louis; W. H. Fosdick, Louisville; Charles Crocker, San Francisco.—Vapereau (1880), 1554.

ROBINETTA, Sir Joshua Reynolds, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 5 in. × 2 ft. A girl, half-length, seated, with a robin on her right shoulder, resting her left arm on its cage. Said to be a portrait of Miss Anna Lewis, afterwards the Hon. Mrs. Tollemache. Purchased with Peel pictures in 1871. Replica at Knole Park, Earl Amherst. A somewhat similar picture, without the cage, belongs to Lord Lonsdale; engraved by J. Jones (1787), and S. W. Reynolds. Etched by A. Lalanze in Portfolio.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Portfolio (1876), 145; Waagen, Art Treasures, iv. 340.

ROBINSON, THOMAS, born in Nova Scotia in 1835. Animal painter, pupil of Courbet, and for a short time of Auguste Bonheur. He has lived and painted in Providence, Boston, and Paris. Works: Dog's Head, Sheep in Pasture, A New England Farmer, Bull's Head (1876); Sprague's String Team; Beacon Street in Boston in January, In a Daisy Field (1884).—Benjamin, 103.

ROBUSTI. See Tintoretto.

ROCH (Rocco), ST., Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, in narrow interval between two windows. A fine figure, though rather coarse.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 342.

ROCH, ST., GIVING ALMS, Annibale Carracci, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 11 ft. 9 in. × 17 ft. 1 in. St. Roch, at right, on a platform under a portico, giving alms to the poor and the sick, who throng the court in front; background of architecture. Painted for Chapel of S. Rocco, Reggio; sold to Duke of Modena, whence passed to Dresden. Copy in small, by Guido, in Zambeccari Gallery, Bologna. Engraved by Guido Reni, who added two figures to it; also by J. Camerata.—Gal. roy. de Dresde, i. Pl. 21; Réveil, ix. 590.

ROCH, ST., FINDING OF BODY OF, Tintoretto, S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, H. about 10 ft. × 25 ft. A somewhat confused picture, with a flying angel in blue drapery; altogether uninteresting.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 324.

ROCH, ST., IN CAMPO D'ARMATA, Tintoretto, S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, H. about 10 ft. × 25 ft. "A wild group of horses and warriors in the most magnificent confusion of fall and flight ever painted by man. They all seem dashed different ways as if by a whirlwind; and a whirlwind there must be, for a huge tree is torn up and hurled into the air, as if it were a shivered lance."—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 324.

ROCH, ST., IN THE DESERT, Tintoretto, S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. A single recumbent figure in a not very interesting landscape.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 322.

ROCH, ST., IN GLORY, Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. The Saint ascends to heaven, looking down on a crowd of the sick and poor, who are blessing and adoring him. One of the worst of Tintorets.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 338.

ROCH, ST., IN HEAVEN, Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; oval, central picture of ceiling, Sala dell' Albergo. Painted