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KETURN BETUEN PEOM EGYPT, Rubens, Blen- heim Palace ; canvas, H. 7 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. 11 in. The Virgin, holding Jesus by her right hand, is advancing to left ; on farther side, Joseph leading the ass ; in middle of pict- ure, a palm tree. Painted about 1G10. En- graved by Vorsterman (1620); Lowrie ; Voet ; McArdell ; in reverse, anonymous. Blen- heim sale (1886), 1,500, to Murray. Waa- gen, Treasures, iii. 124 ; Smith, ii. 243. By Mubens, Metropolitan Museum, New York ; wood, H. 8 ft. 7 in. x 5 ft. 10 in. The Virgin and St. Joseph lead Infant Je- sus by the hand ; above, the Father looking down from heaven. Painted for Jesuits' Church, Antwerp, in 1620 ; bought at sale after suppression of Jesuits (1777), by M. Danoot ; at his sale (1828), bought by Mr. Buchanan, London. Transferred to can- vas, 1880. Engraved by Bolswert. Smith, ii. 21 ; Van Hasselt, Hist, de Eubens, 248 ; Cat. New York Mus. EETUEN FEOM HAWKING, Sir Ed- win Landseer, Ellesmere Collection. The party have just halted under an arch at the entrance to the mansion ; Lord Francis Egerton (afterwards first Earl of Ellesmere), who has dismounted from a white horse, held by a page, stands leaning upon the neck of a black horse, on which is seated his wife with a child in her arms ; at left, the falconer with the victorious bird on his gloved hand and others on a perch sus- pended from his neck ; in front, a little girl teasing one of the falcons, game, hounds, and pet dogs. Eoyal Academy, 1837. Engraved by Samuel Cousins. Landseer Gallery. EETUENING FEOM MARKET, SLr Au- gustus Wall Callcott, National Gallery, Lon- don ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. x 4 ft. 9 in. Dutch peasants, two girls on foot and a woman and child on ponies, fording a brook on their way home from the market-town, which is seen between the trees in back- ground. Eoyal Academy, 1834 ; Vernon Collection, 1847. Engraved by Finden ; J. Cousen. Cat. Nat. Gal.; Painters of Geor- gian Era, 76. EEUTEEN, GERHAEDT WILHELM VON, born at Rosthof, Livland, July 18, 1794, died in Frankfort, March 22, 1865. History and genre painter, pupil in 1834 of Diisseldorf Academy under Schadow and Hildebrandt, after having served in the Eussian army and lost his right arm in the campaign of 1813 ; became court painter to Czar Nicolas I. in 1835 and settled in Frank- fort in 1844. Works : Page in Mediaeval Costume, Girl opening Jewelry Box (1835); Girl Knitting ; Children's School ; Domes- tic Devotions of Schwalmer Peasants ; Mother and Child praying at a Grave ; St. George issuing from Church Door ; Sacri- fice of Isaac (1849), Hermitage, St. Peters- burg ; Mother with Sleeping Child (3 times); Madonna, Girl under a Tree, Three Singers in a Boat (1858-59), Summer Palace at Zars- koe Selo ; Trinity, Crucifixion, Last Supper, Fall of Man, Temptation of Christ. Andre- sen, iii. 223. EEVOTL, PIEEEE, born at Lyons, June 13, 1776, died in Paris, March 19, 1842. History and genre painter, pupil of David with Fleury Francois Richard, whom he greatly surpassed ; founder of the roman- tic school, which turned from the hack- neyed gods and heroes of antiquity to more appealing episodes in history. Happy in the choice of his subjects from the middle ages and renaissance, he combined with an attractive conception great care in repre- senting costumes and accessories with his- torical truthfulness, and a brilliant colour- ing. Became professor at Lyons Academy in 1809, but resigned in 1830 ; L. of Hon- our, 1814 ; corresponding member of the Institute, 1825. Works: The Ring of Charles V. (1810), formerly in Luxembourg Museum ; The Tourney (1812), Lyons Mu- seum ; Convalescence of Bayard (1817) ; Jeanne d'Arc imprisoned at Eouen (1819) ; Jeanne d'Albret (1819), Fontainebleau Pal- ace ; Mary Stuart's Farewell of her Servants (1822); Tancred taking Possession of Beth- lehem in 1099 (1840), Philippe Auguste tak- ing the Oriflamme at Saint-Denis in 1190 32