KAZZI of Council (1636), Town Hall, Hague ; Series of portraits (24) of Colonels (1611, 1612, 1615, 1616, 1621, 1624), Museum, ib. ; five portraits, Amsterdam Museum ; two do. (one dated, 1616), Brussels Museum; Fe- male portraits (2, 1633, 1634), Louvre, Paiis ; Family Group, Portrait of a Lawyer (1622), Brunswick Gallery ; Old Man in Ar- mour (1605), Dresden Gallery; Scholar and Little Daughter, Male Portrait (1633), Ber- lin Museum ; Male Portrait (1622), two | READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN, lx>rn in Chester County, Pa., March 12, 1822, died in New York, May 11, 1872. Portrait and genre painter ; began the study of sculpture in Cincinnati in 1839, but soon turned hia attention to painting. In 1841 ho opened a studio in New York, and afterwards painted in Philadelphia and Boston. Visited Europe in 1850, and after studying in Florence settled in Rome, whence ho made occasional visits to America, during one of which he Rebekah and Eliezer, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre. others, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; others in Copenhagen, Gotha, Oldenburg (1620), and Turin (3) Galleries; Portrait of Lucretia van der Meulen, Historical Society, New York Archief v. ned. Kunstgesch., iii. 261, 285; iv. 3; Burger, Musees, i. 57; ii. 195; Kramm, v. 1341 ; Kunstkronijk (1867), 83, 86 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 355 ; Biegel, Beit- rage, i. 125 ; ii. 198. RAZZL See Sodoma. died. Works : Portrait of George Pealxxly (Peabody Institute, Baltimore) ; Star of Bethlehem ; Water-Sprite ; Sheridan's Ride ; Lost Pleiad ; Undine ; Excelsior (Mrs. Jo- seph Harrison, Philadelphia). Mr. Read was better known as a poet than as a painter. Tuckerman, 460 ; Kunst-Chrouik, vii. 348. READING THE WILL, Sir David Wil- He, New Munich Gallery ; canvas. A party gathered in a room listening to the reading of a will by a lawyer, who is seated at a table in centre ; group of 21 figures. Painted in 1820 for King of Bavaria, who paid for it IB
