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IIICHTER History painter, pupil of Dresden Academy, then in DUsseldorf under Cornelius, for whom he painted in fresco one of his wall pictures at Helldorf. Spent several years in Italy, and became professor in Dresden Academy. His style suggests Kaphael ; sud- denly he fell into mannerism, and soon af- ter became insane. Works : Hagar and Ish- mael in the Wilderness, Dresden Museum ; Kebekah and Eliezer, Weimar Museum. Forster, v. 421 ; Nagler, xiii. 134. EICHTEE, EDOUARD, born in Paris ; contemporary. Genre and portrait paint- er, pupil of Hubert and Bonnat. Works : News at the Studio (18G8); Waiting (1870); At the Fortune-Teller's, Baby's Photograph (1875) ; The Slave's Narrative (187G) ; Veil Dance (1877) ; Jewess of Morocco (1880) ; Othello, Salome (1881); Harem in Old Gra- nada (1883) ; Sultana going to the Bath, Young Girl with Narghileh (1884) ; Nym- phea lotus (1885); Bazaar in Tunis, Jewess of Algiers (1886). In United States : Ju- dith, B. Wall, Providence ; Gallery of the Louvre, J. H. Stebbins, New York ; In the Cathedral, W. B. Bement, Philadelphia ; Love Song, T. M. Scott, San Fi-ancisco. RICHTER, GUSTAV, born in Dessau, May 12, 1847. Landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy (18G3-G8) and of Max Schmidt, then studied from nature, travel- ling in Middle Germany ; paints chiefly mountain landscapes. W T orks : Group of Black Poplars on the Elbe, Ducal Palace, Dessau ; Forest Border ; Castle Giessmanns- dorf (1873); Landscape in Hartz Mountains (1874) ; Entrance into Bode Valley (1876). EICHTER, GUSTAV (KARL LUDWIG), born in Berlin, Aug. 31, 1823, died there, April 3, 1884. History and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Ed uard Hol- bein, and in Paris (1844-46) of Coguiet ; studied in Rome in 1847-49, visited after- wards France and Italy repeatedly, Egypt in 1861, and the Crimea in 1873. One of the most successful portrait painters of modern times. Member of and professor in Berlin Academy ; honorary member of Munich and Vienna Academies. Medals : Berlin, Paris (1855, 1857, 1859), Brussels, Vienna (1873), Phila- delphia (1876), Mu- nich (1883); Order pour le merite. Works: Portrait of his Sister(1852); Daugh- ter of Jairus (1856), National Gallery, Berlin ; Baldur, The Walkyrieg, Walhalla, New Museum, ib.; Building of the Pyramids (1859-73), Maximiliaueum, Munich ; Fe- male Portrait (1852) ; do. (1856) ; Portrait of Painter Hoguet (1862) ; do. of him- self (1862-G4) ; do. of Eduard Hildebrandt (1865), Dantzic Museum ; Egyptian Girl, Odalisque, Neapolitan Fisher-Boy, Egyptian Dancers (1870) ; Pygmalion ; Gypsy Girls in the Crimea (1873) ; Sultan Abdul Aziz (1867) ; Count and Countess Koberinsky ; Princess Carolath (1872) ; Duchess of Ed- inburgh ; Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg (1874) ; Hon. George Bancroft ; Artist with Boy, Artist's Wife with Younger Child (1874); Banker's Wife (1876); Emperor Will- iam (187G, 1877); Empress Augusta, Count- ess Karolyi (1878) ; Prince Pless ; Queen Louise (1879), Cologne Museum ; Countess Donhoff ; General Count von Blumenthal (1883), National Gallery, Berlin. Allgem. K. C., viii. 446, 902 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1884), i. 338 ; Jordan (1885), ii. 182 ; Kunst-Chro- nik, v. 83 ; ix. 712 ; x. 51 ; xiii. 2 ; xiv. 5 ; xix. 442, 541 ; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 87 ; ii. 43 ; Miiller, 438 ; Eosenberg, Berl. Maler- seh., 191 ; D. Rundschau, ix. 471 ; xiii. 327 ; xvii. 303 ; xx. 461, 463 ; xxi. 148 ; Land und Meer (1872), i. 23 ; (1880), i. 47 ; (1884), ii. 710 ; Westermann's Monatshefte, liii. 40, 168 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 92, 105. RICHTER, WILHELM, born in Vienna in 1820. Genre, battle, and animal painter, pupil of Vienna Academy. Works : Girl before Shrine (1838) ; View from St. Mi- chael; Street Sweeper (1839); Uhlans March- ing ; Storming of a Church (1844) ; Sally