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 painter, studied first at Osnabrück, then in Munich under Rhomberg and at the Academy under Philipp Foltz; visited North Italy, lived for several years in Düsseldorf, and settled in Munich. Works: Reconciliation of Otto I. with his Brother Henry, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Last of the Hohenstaufen before Charles of Anjou; Lying-in-Room of a Princess; Quartering in 16th Century; Return from Fair; Violinist; Sunday Morning; Eaves-Dropper; Treacherous Hostess; Before the Festival; Leaving Home, I. M. Scott, San Francisco; Convalescent, Mrs. D. D. Colton, ib.; three frescos in National Museum, Munich.—Müller, 446.

ROGHMAN, ROELAND, born in Amsterdam in 1597, died there after 1686. Dutch school; landscape painter; travelled extensively in Germany and Tyrol. His rare landscapes in the warm tone of Rembrandt are particularly noticeable for their fine perspective; they may be seen in the Museums of Amsterdam and Berlin, Galleries of Cassel (3, two attributed to Rembrandt), Copenhagen, and Oldenburg.—Immerzeel, iii. 23; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 359; Kramm, v. 1380.

ROHDE, KARL, born in Coblentz in 1840. Animal painter, pupil of Stuttgart Art School under Neher and Rustige, settled in Munich in 1864; paints chiefly domestic poultry. Works: The Duellists; Prize Race; Hungry Folk; Sparrow's Wooing; Clucking Hen.—Müller, 446; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 247.

ROKES, HENDRIK MARTENSZ. See Sorgh.

ROLL, ALFRED PHILIPPE, born in Paris; contemporary. Military and genre painter, pupil of Gérôme and Bonnat. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 1st class, 1877; L. of Honour, 1883. Works: Environs of Baccarat, Evening (l870); Wounded Fugitive (1872); Bacchante (1873); Don Juan and Haidée (1875); Halte là! (1875); Huntress (1876); Inundation of Toulouse in 1875 (1877); Festival of Silenus (1879); Miners on a Strike (1880); July 14th 1880 (1882); Normandy (1883)—Luxembourg Museum; Fight between a French Cuirassier and a Prussian Sharpshooter; Marianne Offrey—Crieuse de vert (1884); At Work, Study of a Bull and Nude Woman (1885); Portrait of Damoye (1886).—Gaz. des B. Arts (1882), xxv. 546; (1884), xxix. 468; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxi. 315.

ROLL-CALL, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson Butler, Windsor Castle; canvas. Calling the roll of the Grenadier Guards on a misty winter morning after an engagement in the Crimea. A line of soldiers worn out with conflict, some wounded, some dying and fallen with their faces in the snow, inspected by the colonel as he rides slowly past. Royal Academy, 1874; purchased by the Queen. Engraved by F. Stacpoole.—Art Journal (1874), 163.

ROLL-CALL OF LAST VICTIMS, Charles Louis Müller, Versailles Museum; canvas, H. 14 ft. 4 in. × 26 ft. 11 in. Scene—the prison of the Conciergerie, on the 8th Thermidor, 1794. An officer of the Revolutionary Tribunal is reading the names of the victims for whom the cart waits outside the door; the Princesse de Chimay is already in the cart, and the Princesse de Monaco, who has just been called, rises in terror at right, while an informer points her out with his finger. The central figure, seated in a chair, is Andre Chénier, the author. Salon, 1850; replica (H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 7 ft. 10 in.), bought in 1862 by John Taylor Johnston for $1,800; his sale (1876), $8,200, to J. J. Astor, New York. Original sketch, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, ii. 11, 14; iii. 58.

ROLLMANN, JULIUS, born Dec. 13, 1827, died at Soest, Westphalia, April 30, 1865. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf and Berlin Academies; settled in Munich, and in 1853 in Düsseldorf; visited Italy in 1858. Work: View in Bavarian Alps (1864), National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan (1885), ii. 189.