KANSONNET-VILLEZ Genre painter, pupil of the Royal Academy, where he first exhibited, in 1841, Scene from Macbeth. His pictures are generally domestic subjects, carefully painted. Works: The Lonely Hearth (1857) ; Return of the Prodigal (1858) ; The Day is Done (1860) ; The Doctor's Coming (1804); Follow My Leader (1867); Following the Trail, Hearth of his Home (1870); The Benediction (1871) ; Milton's First Meeting with Mary Powell ; George Stephenson at Darlington. RANSONNET-VILLEZ, EUGEN, Baron, born at Hietzing, near Vienna, June 7, 1838. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Acad- emy ; visited Constantinople, Greece, and Asia Minor in 1860, Palestine, Egypt, Ara- bia in 1862, Ceylon and Hindostau in 1864 -65, India, Siam, China, Japan, and a part of America in 1868. Lives at Vienna and at Nussdorf on the Atter Lake, Upper Aus- tria. "Works : Morning on Banks of the Ganges ; Sail of Austrian Embassy to Bang- kok (1870) ; Hindu Women in Bombay ; First Knitting, Moutuiu Forest in India (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886). Wurz- bach, xxiv. 349. RANVIER, VICTOR JOSEPH, born at Lyons ; contemporary. Genre and laud- scape painter, pupil of Janmot and Richard. Medals : 1865 ; 2d class, 1873 ; L. of Hon- our, 1878. Works : Racing for the Wreath (1864), Infancy of Bacchus (1865), Luxem- bourg Museum ; Echo, Exiled Virtues (1873) ; Release of Prometheus (1884), Ly- ons Museum ; Morning (1876) ; Little Tur- tle (1879) ; Bacchus and Ariadne (1880) ; Child with a Swan (1882). Claretie, Pein- tres, vii. 332, 387. RANZONI, GUSTAV, born atUnternalb, Lower Austria, May 10, 1826. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Vienna Acad- emy. Works : View on Karst Mountain (5, 1858, 1866, 1867) ; View on Traun Lake (1864) ; Ruin of Neukosel on the Karst (1865) ; Sunset in Autumn (1867) ; Sheep | on the Puszta, Sunset near Klosterneuburg (1869) ; Before the Storm (1870, 1871), Vi- enna Academy ; Cows Drinking (1870); Vil- lage Pond (1871) ; Oxen Ploughing ; Cattle Herd Resting. Wurzbach, xxiv. 353. RAOUX, JEAN, born at Montpellier, June 12, 1677, died in Paris, Feb. 10, 1734. French school; genre painter, pupil of Ranc at Mont- pellier and of Bon Boulogne in Paris ; won the grand prix de Rome in 1704. Member Academy in 1717, in which year he refused the position of painter to the King of Spain, on account of ill health. Made a short visit to England in 1720. Works : Telemachus and Calypso, Louvre ; Dame Boucher as a Vestal (1728), Bordeaux Mu- seum ; do. (1734), Versailles Museum ; La- dy Musician, Douai Museum ; Young Girl surprised by her Grandmother, Marseilles Museum ; Vestal bearing the Sacred Fire, Montpellier Museum ; Rinaldo and Arm id a with Nymphs and Cupids, Nantes Museum ; Madame du Noyer, Orleans Museum ; Ceph- alus and Procris, Berlin Museum ; Judith with Head of Holofernes, Schleissheim Gal- lery ; Floi-a, Historical Society, New York ; Pygmalion in Love with his Statue ; Con- tinence of Scipio ; Alexander Sick. Bellier, ii. 342 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole francaise ; Wurz- bach, Fr. Mai. des xviii. Jahrh., 16 ; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, i. 208. RAPHAEL or RAFFAELLO, born at Urbino, April 6, 1483, died in Rome, April 6, 1520. Umbrian and Roman school ; fam- ily name Sante, Santi, Sanctius, or Sanzio ; son and pupil of Giovanni Santi, after whose death (1492) he was probably taught by Ti- moteo Vite or Luca Signorelli, until his un- cle, Simon Ciarla, took him to Perugia, at some time between June, 1499, and May, J. /Lo-o u,x F*
