FRANCISCO, a talented Spanish painter, was born at Madrid in 1608, and studied under Vicencio Carducho. He was one of those whose very precocity proved a misfortune. His easy dexterity of hand led him to despise all care and elaboration. The most difficult subjects were dashed off without any great regard to truth or accuracy. His appointment to the office of painter to the king, and the many commissions that in consequence pressed in upon him, only confirmed him in his careless habits. He covered whole acres of canvas under the stimulus of no higher motive than that of making money. The result was, that after his death in 1685, his innumerable pictures in the churches of Madrid began to fall into neglect, and at the present day they are scarcely considered worthy of the notice of the art-critic. Rizi's elder brother Juan was also an artist. He was born at Madrid in 1595, became a Benedictine friar as well as a painter, and died at Monte Cassino in 1675.

RJEV, or RSHEV, a town of European Russia, capital of a circle in the government of Twer, on the Volga, 74 miles S.W. of Twer. It has several churches, schools, and benevolent institutions. Horticulture and ship-building are carried on; and there is a considerable trade in fish, hemp, linseed, and other articles. Pop. 13,621.