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R. BRITON RIVIERE was born in London of French descent, his father being Mr. W. Riviere, who was for nine years head of the drawing school at Cheltenham, and afterwards a teacher of drawing at Oxford, and who gave his son a careful and able training. While living at Oxford Mr. Briton Riviere entered as an undergraduate, and took his B.A. degree in 1867. But he was only eighteen when his first picture, "Sheep on the Cotswolds," was hung in the Royal Academy; since which time his pictures, dramatic and impressive, sometimes humorous and sometimes pathetic, and especially strong in the treatment of wild animals, have become known to all the world.