ROTING the Service in an Anglican Church ; De Soto discovering the Mississippi ; St. Paul on Mars Hill ; Battle of Gettysburg ; Macbeth meditating the Murder of Duncan, King Lear with Gloucester and Edward, Cupid lieposing, Bacchus, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia ; Lady Macbeth, T. Dolan, ib.; Sicilian Vespers, A. J. Drexel, ib. ; Embark- ation of Columbus, Pennsylvania Academy, ib. ; Trial of Sir Henry Vane, Christian Mar- tyrs, Hypatia, Amy Robsart interceding for Leicester, The Landsknecht (1876) ; Touch- stone and Audrey, in "As You Like It" (1880); Bacchantes (1884). Tuckerman 437. ROTING, JULIUS, born in Dresden, Sept. 7, 1821 (Sept. 13, 1822?). History and portrait painter, pupil of Dresden Acad- emy under Bendemann, then studied in Dils- seldorf, where he became professor at the Academy. Member of Berlin and Vienna Academies. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1855. Gold medal, Berlin. Works : Columbus before the Council at Salamanca (1851), Dresden Gallery ; Entombment (186(5); Por- traits of the painters Leutze (1847); Lessing (1851), Schadow (1852), Diisscldorf Gallery ; of the poet Arndt (several times, one in Stettin Museum). Wolfg. Mailer, Diisseldf. K, 161. ROTTA, ANTONIO, born at Goritz, Feb. 28, 1828. Genre painter, pupil of Academy in Venice, where he settled. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1878. Works : Cobbler ; Match- Seller ; Bacchanal on the Lido in 1700 ; The Sick Friend (1855) ; Bad Company ; The Only Friend (1869) ; Venetian Women at Work ; Agreeable Surprise (1878); Young Brood (1881). Illustr. Zeitg. (1879), ii. 369 ; (1882), ii. 289 ; Mailer, 451. BOTTENHAMMER, JOHANN, born in Munich in 15C4, died in Augsburg in 1623. German school ; history painter, son and pupil of Thomas Rottenhammer, and in 1582 pupil of Johann Donnauer ; studied in Venice after Tintoretto and visited Rome. Jan Brueghel and Paul Bril employed him to paint mythological or allegori- cal figures in their landscapes. Works : Pan and Syrinx, National Gallery, London ; Death of Adonis, Diana and Cal- listo, Louvre, Paris ; Madonna (1604), Mars and Venus (1604), Amsterdam Mu- seum ; Fall of Phaeton (1604), Christ delivering Souls from Pur- gatory, three others, Hague Museum ; Ma- donna and St. John, Rotterdam Museum ; The Four Elements Personified, Muw'e Rath, Geneva ; Apotheosis of St. Catharine, Inn of the Three Moors, Augsburg ; Poetry, Music, Painting and Architecture, Berlin Museum ; Landscape with Nymphs, The Golden Age (with Peeter Brueghel, the younger), Kunsthallc, Hamburg ; Judg- ment of Paris (1605), Marriage at Cana, four others, Old Pinakothck, Munich ; Di- ana surprised by Acticon (1602), Venus and Mars (1605), Adoration of the Shepherds (1605), three others, Schleissheirn Gallery ; Repose in Egypt (1597), Magdalen Peni- tent, Schwerin Gallery ; Last Judgment with the Seven Works of Mercy, Stuttgart Museum ; Nativity (1608), Battle between Centaurs and Lapithfp, four others, Muse- um, Vienna ; Erection of Brazen Serpent, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Adam and Eve in Paradise (with Brueghel), Schr>nlx>rn | Gallery, ib. ; others in Galleries of Aschaf- fenburg, Bamberg (3), Carlsruhe, Casscl (C), Copenhagen, Dresden, Gotha, Weimar, and Wiesbaden (2) ; Hermitage, St. Peterburg (3) ; Historical Society, New York ; The Seasons, Holy Family (2), Mars and Venus ensnared by Vulcan, Banquet of the Goda (2), Blenheim sale, London, 1886. Ch. 75
