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RUMP RUMP, CHRISTIAN GOTTFRED, bom at Hillerod, Dec. 8, 1816, died at Freder- iksborg, May 25, 1880. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Lund ; painted at first history and portraits, visited Norway in 1855-56, and Germany in 1856- 1857 ; became mem- ber of Copenhagen Academy in 1866, and professor in 1874. Works : Presentation in the Temple (1842) ; Heath in Jutland (1849) ; View in Sabygaards Forest (1854) ; Noro Valley (1856) ; Four Seasons (1864) ; Turf Pit near Frederiksborg (1848), Morn- ing in a Forest, ib. (1851), Forest Stream in Jutland (1854), View of Skaergftrd Reefs, Sweden (1855), Woodland near Frederiks- borg (1860), Landscape, ib. (1879), Winter Scene (1880), Copenhagen Gallery. Sig. Muller, 301 ; Weilbach, 595. RUMPF, PHILIPP, born in Frankfort, Dec. 19, 1831. Genre painter, pupil of Stii- del Institute in Frankfort under Rustige ; visited Munich, Dresden, Paris, and North Italy, and settled at Kronberg, near Frank- fort. Works : Poor Flower Girl ; Ladies in a Park ; Young Lady Artist ; Mother and Child. Kaulen, 306 ; Muller, 453. RUMPLER, FRANZ, born at Tachau, Bohemia, in 1848. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Engerth ; is compared, by prominent Vien- na art critics, to Knaus. His portraits are in the manner of the old Dutch masters. Professor in Vienna. Works : Goose Herd ; Morning Prayers, Evening Prayers (1871); Little Patient ; At Grandmother's (1873) ; Secret Treasure ; Good Friendship, T. A. Havemeyer, New York ; In the Park ; Flow- ers and Pearls (1876); Leisure Hours (1879); Neapolitan Woman's Head, Woman from Dachau, Only Scholar in the Family (1883). Kunst Chronik, xviii. 509 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, xiii. 353 ; xv. 332. RUNCMAN, ALEXANDER, born in Ed- inburgh, in 1736, died there, Oct. 21, 1785. History painter, pupil of Foulis's Academv, Glasgow ; went about 1766 to Rome and studied five years, painting there his large picture Nausicaii at Play with her Maid- ens. Returning in 1772, he settled the next year in Edinburgh, where he was appointed manager to the Trustees' Academy. He decorated the great hall of Pennicuik with scenes from Ossian, and painted The Prodi- gal Son, Cymon and Iphigenia, Sigismunda weeping over the Heart of Guiscardo, and other works. His brother, John (1744-66), an artist of much promise, accompanied him to Italy and died at Naples ; in the National Gallery, Edinburgh, are by him : Flight into Egypt, King Lear in the Storm, and Portrait of a Youth. Red- grave ; F. de Conches, 305 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole anglaise. RUNK, FERDINAND, born at Freiburg, in the Breisgau, in 1746, died in Vienna in 1834. Landscape painter ; made himself known through a fine cycle of eight paint- ings, in which, by light effects, colour, and reproduction of forms on the surface of earth and water, and of the vegetation, he represented the progress of nature from the highest ice-peak down to the sea-coast. Other works : View of the Glumser Valley in Tyrol, Museum, Vienna ; do. in a Park, Harrach Gallery, ib. RUSS, KARL, born in Vienna, May 10, 1779, died there, Sept. 19, 1843. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Maurer ; was afterwards much influenced by Eberhard Wiichter, and in 1818 became custodian of the Belvedere. Works : Tire- sias predicting Future of Hercules ; Philip of Macedonia rescued by his Son (1805) ; Caritu romana (1806) ; Hecuba bewailing her Children, Vienna Museum ; Christoph von Liechtenstein recognized by his Shield, I/ 77 /Ato*? Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; / thirty-seven pictures from Austrian History. N. Necrol. d. D. (1843), 832 ; Wurzbach, xxvii. 277.