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 the Service in an Anglican Church; De Soto discovering the Mississippi; St. Paul on Mars Hill; Battle of Gettysburg; Macbeth meditating the Murder of Duncan, King Lear with Gloucester and Edward, Cupid Reposing, Bacchus, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia; Lady Macbeth, T. Dolan, ib.; Sicilian Vespers, A. J. Drexel, ib.; Embarkation of Columbus, Pennsylvania Academy, ib.; Trial of Sir Henry Vane, Christian Martyrs, Hypatia, Amy Robsart interceding for Leicester, The Landsknecht (1876); Touchstone and Audrey, in "As You Like It" (1880); Bacchantes (1884).—Tuckerman 437.

RÖTING, JULIUS, born in Dresden, Sept. 7, 1821 (Sept. 13, 1822?). History and portrait painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Bendemann, then studied in Düsseldorf, where he became professor at the Academy. Member of Berlin and Vienna Academies. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1855. Gold medal, Berlin. Works: Columbus before the Council at Salamanca (1851), Dresden Gallery; Entombment (1866); Portraits of the painters Leutze (1847); Lessing (1851), Schadow (1852), Düsseldorf Gallery; of the poet Arndt (several times, one in Stettin Museum).—Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 161.

ROTTA, ANTONIO, born at Goritz, Feb. 28, 1828. Genre painter, pupil of Academy in Venice, where he settled. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1878. Works: Cobbler; Match-Seller; Bacchanal on the Lido in 1700; The Sick Friend (1855); Bad Company; The Only Friend (1869); Venetian Women at Work; Agreeable Surprise (1878); Young Brood (1881).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1879), ii. 369; (1882), ii. 289; Müller, 451.

ROTTENHAMMER, JOHANN, born in Munich in 1564, died in Augsburg in 1623. German school; history painter, son and pupil of Thomas Rottenhammer, and in 1582 pupil of Johann Donnauer; studied in Venice after Tintoretto and visited Rome. Jan Brueghel and Paul Bril employed him to paint mythological or allegorical figures in their landscapes. Works: Pan and Syrinx, National Gallery, London; Death of Adonis, Diana and Callisto, Louvre, Paris; Madonna (1604), Mars and Venus (1604), Amsterdam Museum; Fall of Phaëton (1604), Christ delivering Souls from Purgatory, three others, Hague Museum; Madonna and St. John, Rotterdam Museum; The Four Elements Personified, Musée Rath, Geneva; Apotheosis of St. Catharine, Inn of the Three Moors, Augsburg; Poetry, Music, Painting and Architecture, Berlin Museum; Landscape with Nymphs, The Golden Age (with Peeter Brueghel, the younger), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Judgment of Paris (1605), Marriage at Cana, four others, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Diana surprised by Actæon (1602), Venus and Mars (1605), Adoration of the Shepherds (1605), three others, Schleissheim Gallery; Repose in Egypt (1597), Magdalen Penitent, Schwerin Gallery; Last Judgment with the Seven Works of Mercy, Stuttgart Museum; Nativity (1608), Battle between Centaurs and Lapithæ, four others, Museum, Vienna; Erection of Brazen Serpent, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Adam and Eve in Paradise (with Brueghel), Schönborn Gallery, ib.; others in Galleries of Aschaffenburg, Bamberg (3), Carlsruhe, Cassel (6), Copenhagen, Dresden, Gotha, Weimar, and Wiesbaden (2); Hermitage, St. Peterburg (3); Historical Society, New York; The Seasons, Holy Family (2), Mars and Venus ensnared by Vulcan, Banquet of the Gods (2), Blenheim sale, London, 1886.—Ch.