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RICHARD Beeches, Castle of Roque, Mill of Creissels, Forest in Winter, Game-Keeper and Poach- er, Pau ; Sheep in a Pasture, Morning, Last Tree of the Forest, Hollow Roatl, Sunset (1831 to 1848) ; Woods in Autumn (1853); Spring, Leafless Oaks (1857) ; Torrent (1859) ; Three Landscapes, Herd March- ing, Bordeaux Museum ; Farm near Pau (1841), City and Chateau of Pau, Land- scape with Figures, Montpellier Museum ; Forest in the Mountains (1842), Orleans Museum. Bellier, ii. 373 ; Negrin, Ar- tistes vivants du Midi (Toulouse, 1857). RICHARD H., portrait, Jerusalem Cham- ber, Westminster, formerly in the Choir of the Abbey. The King on his throne. This precious and carefully painted portrait, which had been covered with several coats of paint, and converted into a different per- sonage, was cleaned and repaired by George Richmond and H. Merritt. Engraved in Car- ter's Specimens (1780-94). Geo. Scharf, Hist, of Old London, 285 ; Observations on the Westminster Abbey Portrait, reprinted from Fine Arts Quarterly (Jan. 1867). RICHARD IL, WITH MADONNA AND SAINTS, probably English, Wilton House, England ; diptych, wood, tempera ; assumed date, 1381. The King in a scarlet mantle embroidered with his badge (white hart), accompanied by SS. John Baptist, Edward the Martyr, and Edward the Confessor, kneels, in one panel, facing the Madonna and angels on the other. The Virgin is clad in deep blue, Christ in a mantle of cloth of gold, and the angels have blue wings and white hart badges. Charles I. obtained this picture from Sir T. Jermyn, and James H. (1688) gave it to Lord Castlemaine, at whose death it passed to 8th Lord Pembroke (1705). Engraved by Hollar (1C39) ; H. Shaw in "Dresses of the Middle Ages" (i. PI. 43). Waagen thought it an Italian work. Arundel Soc. Chromolithograph, Essay by Geo. Scharf (1883) ; Athenaeum (March 17, 1883) ; Waagen, Treasures, iii. 150. RICHARDS, THOMAS ADDISON, born in London, Dec. 3, 1820. Landscape paint- er ; went, when a boy, to Georgia with hw parents, and removed thence, in 1845, to New York, where he has since lived, with the ex- ception of occasional trips to Europe. Pu- pil of National Academy in 1845-47 ; elect- ed an A.N.A. in 1848, N.A. in 1851 ; Los been corresponding secretary since 1852. He was the first director of the Cooper Un- ion School of Design for Women in 1858-GO ; since 1867, professor of art in University of New York. Studio in New York. Works : Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, Mr. Wool- sey, New Haven ; Indian Paradise (1854) ; Edisto River, French Broad River (1859) ; Rhine, Warwick Castle (1869); LakeWinni- piseogee ; Chatsworth England ; Lake Thun Switzerland ; Sunnyside ; Lake Bri- enz Switzerland (1879); Squantum Road Providence, Meadow Brook, At Hunt's Mill Providence (1880); Dingman Creek Pa., Lilacs (1881) ; Flower of the Period, Mar- shal Niel Roses (1882); Pennsylvania Home- stead, Van Elton's Peak Delaware River (1883); Ferry Road at Dingman, In the Val- ley of the Delaware, Basket of Roses (1884); Mountain Brook, Delaware River (1885) ; Midsummer on the Delaware, River Road at Dingman's Ferry (188G). RICHARDS, WILLIAM TROST, bom in Philad elphia, Pa. , Nov. 14, 1833. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Paul Weber, a German artist in Philadelphia. In 1855 visited Florence, in 18G6-C7 France and Germany, and in 1878 -79-80 London and the coast of England. Exhibited at Royal Academy, London, in 1869 and 1878-81*; Paris Salon, 1873. Hon- orary member of National Academy. Med- als : Philadelphia, 1876 ; Temple, 1885. Works in oil: Wood Scene (1861); Leafy June (1862); June Woods (1864); Mid- Ocean ; New England Coast ; At Atlantic City (1873); Yellow Cam at Cornwall (1879) ; 39