Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 4.djvu/107

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liOOKE Women stripping Hemp (1874) ; Labourers of the Last Hour (1876) ; Anger of the Pharisees (1877); Charities of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1878) ; Girl tending Cows, George Chastelain writing his Chronicles (1879) ; Last Members of the Mountain (1882) ; In the Other World (1885) ; A la Hotte !, The Daisies (1886). ROORE, JACOB DE, born in Antwerp, July 20, 1686, died at The Hague, July 17, 1747. Flemish school ; history and portrait painter, pupil of Kaspar Jacob van Opstal ; became master of the guild in 1707, exe- cuted important decorative works on a large scale, in Antwerp (1709-19), Amsterdam, and Rotterdam, and settled at The Hague, where he entered the guild. In 1728-29 he painted again in Antwerp for several prom- inent citizens. By his art, and a trade in pictures which he carried on together with Geeraard Hoet, he amassed a considera- ble fortune. Works: Ransom of Chris- tian Slaves by the Trinitarians' (1709), St. James's, Antwerp ; Ceilings with Allegories (1715, 1716, 1717), City Hall, ib. ; Chris- tians compelled to worship Idols, Meet- ing of Moses and Aaron, Tournay Muse- um ; Portraits of Artist and Wife (1707), Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Immerzeel, iii. 26 ; Kramm, v. 1386 ; Rooses (Reber), 440 ; Van den Branden, 1172. ROOS, JOHANN HEINRICH, born at Ottendorf, Palati- nate, Oct. 27, 1631, died in Frankfort, Oct. 3, 1685. Ger- man school ; land- scape and animal painter, pupil in Amsterdam of Ju- liaan du Jardin (1647), and of Bar- end Graat. Having visited Italy, France, and England in 1650- 54, he settled in Frankfort about 1657 ; lived also in Cassel and Mentz, and became court painter to the Elector Palatine Charles Louis in 1673. Works : Landscape ' with Cattle (2), Historical Society, New York; Italian Landscape (1670), Hague Museum ; do., Berlin Museum ; Herd by Statue of Hercules, Male (1669), and Female Portrait, Aschaffeuburg Gallery ; Pastoral Scenes (7, two dated 16CO, 1668), Osteria in a Roman Ruin, Carlsruhe Gal- lery; Bull with Goats and Sheep (1662), Camp Scene (1665), Cow among Sheep (1676), Copenhagen Gallery ; Italian Laud- scapes (3, 1668, 1C80, 1685), Portrait of a Scholar (1676), do. of himself, Darmstadt Museum ; St. John with the Lamb (1684), Old Lady's Portrait, Anialienstift, Dessau ; Landscape with Cattle and Sheep (3, one dated 1681), Dresden Museum ; Cattle driv- en through Water (1670), Herd resting by Ruins (1674), Shepherd Family and Flock (1680), Artist and Wife surrounded by Al- legories, Artist's Portrait (?, 2, one dated 1680), two others, Stiidel Gallery, Frank- fort ; Family on Garden Terrace, Leipsic Museum ; Landscapes with Cattle and Fig- ures (8, four dated 1661, 1665, 1668, 1675), Breaking up of Army Encampment (1677), Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Roman Land- scape with Ruins (16G9), Germanic Muse- um, Nuremberg ; Four Divisions of Day (4, 1C67), Oldenburg Gallery ; Italian Land- scape (1674), Halt of Gypsies among Ruins (1675), Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Artist's Portrait, Pastoral Scene (1676), View near Tivoli (1683), eight others, Schleissheim Gallery ; Cattle Pieces (2, 1662, 1682), Vi- enna Museum ; others in Galleries of Bolo- gna (2), Brunswick, Cassel (2), Schwerin (3, 1684, 1685), Stuttgart (4), Turin (1682), Wurlitz ; Liechtenstein (1658), Czerniu, and Schiinborn (2) Galleries, Vienna ; Historical Society, New York (2). Hia brother The- odor (born at Wesel in 1638, died in 1698), pupil of Adriaen de Bie, lived in Mann- heim about 1657, . <Jj Strasburg in 1681, ^ and finally as court painter at Stuttgart, where he painted eight large historical pict-