BRITON

RIVIERE (1840- )  , English artist, was born in London on the 14th of August 184o . His father, William Riviere, was for some years drawing-master at Cheltenham College, and afterwards an art teacher at Oxford . He was educated at Cheltenham College and at Oxford, where he took his degree in 1867 . For his art training he was indebted almost entirely to his father, and early in life made for him-self a place of importance among the artists of his time . His first pictures appeared at the British Institution, and in 1857 he exhibited three works at the Royal Academy, but it was not until 1863 that he became a regular contributor to the Academy exhibitions . In that year he was represented by "The Eve of the Spanish Armada," and in 1864 by a "Romeo and Juliet." Subjects of this kind did not, however, attract him long, for in 1865 he began, with a picture of a " Sleeping Deerhound," that series of paintings of animal-subjects which has since occupied him almost exclusively . Among the mostmemorable of his productions are: " The Poacher's Nurse ^ (1866), " Circe " (1871), " Daniel " (1872), " The Last of the Garrison " (1875), " Lazarus " (1897), " Persepolis " (1878), " In Manus Tuas, Domine " (1879), " The Magician's Doorway " (1832), " Vae Victis " (1885), " Rizpah " (1886), " An Old-Work, Wanderer " (1887), " Of a Fool and his Folly there is no End " (1889), " A Mighty Hunter before the Lord " (1891), " The King's Libation " (1893), " Beyond Man's Foot-steps " (1894), now in the National Gallery of British Art; Phoebus Apollo " (1895); " Aggravation " (1896), " St George " (19oo), and " To the Hills " (1901) . He has also painted portraits; and at the outset of his career made some mark as an illustrator, beginning with Punch . He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1878, and R.A. in 1881, and received the degree of D.C.L. at Oxford in 1891 . See Sir Walter Armstrong, " Briton Riviere, R.A.; His Life and Work," Art Annual (1891) .