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ROQUEPLAN, (JOSEPH ÉTIENNE) CAMILLE, called Rocoplan, born at Mallemart (Bouches-du-Rhône), Feb. 18, 1800, died in Paris, Sept. 29, 1855. Genre, marine, and landscape painter, pupil of Abel de Pujol and of Gros. One of the leaders of the new school of French art (1830). Medals: 2d class, 1824; 1st class, 1828; L. of Honour, 1831; Officer, 1852. Works: Equinoctial Tide, Death of the Spy Morris (1827), Lille Museum; Sea View (1831), Havre Museum; Draught of Fishes (1828), Sick Mother (1830), Corn Field (1830), Meadow (1835), View with Bridge and Windmills, Königsberg Museum; Incident in Life of Rousseau, Water Mill, Walk in the Park (1833); Antiquary (sold for 30,000 francs at the Duc d'Orléans' sale), St. Bartholomew's Day, Pacy-sur-Eure (1834); Rousseau picking Cherries, Amorous Lion (1836); Battle of Elchingen (1837), do. of Rocoux, Versailles Museum; Dutch Subscription, Gaston de Medicis (1837); Van Dyck in London, Magdalen in Desert (1838); Peasants of the Valley of Ossau, Spaniards of Penticosa, Passports on Spanish Frontier (1847); Leda, Girl with Flowers (1850); Fountain of Grand Figuier (1852), Luxembourg Museum; Daughters of Eve (1855, last work); Valentine and Raoul, Bordeaux Museum; Children playing with Cat, Chartres Museum; Coast View, Grenoble Museum; Castello Gandolfo, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Harbour of Boulogne in Approaching Storm, Leipsic Museum.—Bellier, ii. 415; Ch. Blanc, École française; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 226, 317; Meyer, Gesch., 269; Nagler, xiii. 365.

RÖRBYE, MARTINUS CHRISTIAN WESSELTOFT, born at Drammen, Norway, May 17, 1803, died in Copenhagen, Aug. 29, 1848. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and of Eckersberg; visited, in 1834-37, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, and brought home numerous studies. On his return he won the Thorvaldsen medal, in 1838 became member of, and in 1844 professor at, the Academy, having gone to Italy meanwhile in 1839. His pictures are brilliant in colour and carefully executed. Works: Turkish Notary making Marriage Contract (1837); Life in the East (1838); Market at Amalfi (1842); Arcade of City Hall at Copenhagen (1832), Chapel of St. Benedict's Convent at Subiaco (1843), Orientals before Turkish Coffee-House (1845), Inhabitants of Cape Skagen amusing themselves (1848), Copenhagen Gallery.—Weilbach, 599.

RORKE'S DRIFT, DEFENCE OF, Alphonse de Neuville, Sydney Gallery, New South Wales; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 9 ft. Assault by the Zulus on the improvised defences at Rorke's Drift, on the evening of the defeat at Isandhlwana. Painted in 1880 for Fine Art Society.—Athen., March, 1880, 384.

Subject treated also by Elizabeth Thompson Butler (1881).

ROSA DA NAPOLI. See Roos, Philipp.

ROSA, SALVATOR, born at Renella, near Naples, June 20, 1615, died in Rome, March 15, 1673. Neapolitan school; pupil of his uncle, Paolo Greco, and his brother-in-law, Francesco Fracanzano. When about eighteen years old he made a sketching tour through the Abruzzi, and is said to have learned from banditti of that wild region many incidents which he afterwards painted. On his return home he was obliged, by the death of his father, to labour for the support of the family; but he was fortunate enough to gain the friendship of Lanfranco and Aniello Falcone, through whose aid his pictures found a sale. Under Falcone's instruction he learned to paint battle scenes with such success as to rival