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 Women stripping Hemp (1874); Labourers of the Last Hour (1876); Anger of the Pharisees (1877); Charities of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1878); Girl tending Cows, George Chastelain writing his Chronicles (1879); Last Members of the Mountain (1882); In the Other World (1885); A la Hotte!, The Daisies (1886).

ROORE, JACOB DE, born in Antwerp, July 20, 1686, died at The Hague, July 17, 1747. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Kaspar Jacob van Opstal; became master of the guild in 1707, executed important decorative works on a large scale, in Antwerp (1709-19), Amsterdam, and Rotterdam, and settled at The Hague, where he entered the guild. In 1728-29 he painted again in Antwerp for several prominent citizens. By his art, and a trade in pictures which he carried on together with Geeraard Hoet, he amassed a considerable fortune. Works: Ransom of Christian Slaves by the Trinitarians (1709), St. James's, Antwerp; Ceilings with Allegories (1715, 1716, 1717), City Hall, ib.; Christians compelled to worship Idols, Meeting of Moses and Aaron, Tournay Museum; Portraits of Artist and Wife (1707), Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Immerzeel, iii. 26; Kramm, v. 1386; Rooses (Reber), 440; Van den Branden, 1172.

ROOS, JOHANN HEINRICH, born at Ottendorf, Palatinate, Oct. 27, 1631, died in Frankfort, Oct. 3, 1685. German school; landscape and animal painter, pupil in Amsterdam of Juliaan du Jardin (1647), and of Barend Graat. Having visited Italy, France, and England in 1650-54, he settled in Frankfort about 1657; lived also in Cassel and Mentz, and became court painter to the Elector Palatine Charles Louis in 1673. Works: Landscape with Cattle (2), Historical Society, New York; Italian Landscape (1670), Hague Museum; do., Berlin Museum; Herd by Statue of Hercules, Male (1669), and Female Portrait, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Pastoral Scenes (7, two dated 1660, 1668), Osteria in a Roman Ruin, Carlsruhe Gallery; Bull with Goats and Sheep (1662), Camp Scene (1665), Cow among Sheep (1676), Copenhagen Gallery; Italian Landscapes (3, 1668, 1680, 1685), Portrait of a Scholar (1676), do. of himself, Darmstadt Museum; St. John with the Lamb (1684), Old Lady's Portrait, Amalienstift, Dessau; Landscape with Cattle and Sheep (3, one dated 1681), Dresden Museum; Cattle driven through Water (1670), Herd resting by Ruins (1674), Shepherd Family and Flock (1680), Artist and Wife surrounded by Allegories, Artist's Portrait (?, 2, one dated 1680), two others, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Family on Garden Terrace, Leipsic Museum; Landscapes with Cattle and Figures (8, four dated 1661, 1665, 1668, 1675), Breaking up of Army Encampment (1677), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Roman Landscape with Ruins (1669), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Four Divisions of Day (4, 1667), Oldenburg Gallery; Italian Landscape (1674), Halt of Gypsies among Ruins (1675), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Artist's Portrait, Pastoral Scene (1676), View near Tivoli (1683), eight others, Schleissheim Gallery; Cattle Pieces (2, 1662, 1682), Vienna Museum; others in Galleries of Bologna (2), Brunswick, Cassel (2), Schwerin (3, 1684, 1685), Stuttgart (4), Turin (1682), Wörlitz; Liechtenstein (1658), Czernin, and Schönborn (2) Galleries, Vienna; Historical Society, New York (2). His brother Theodor (born at Wesel in 1638, died in 1698), pupil of Adriaen de Bie, lived in Mannheim about 1657, Strasburg in 1681, and finally as court painter at Stuttgart, where he painted eight large historical pict