diff --git a/include/wx/richtext/richtextbuffer.h b/include/wx/richtext/richtextbuffer.h
index 4ac47931de..4d0d3f7b9b 100644
--- a/include/wx/richtext/richtextbuffer.h
+++ b/include/wx/richtext/richtextbuffer.h
@@ -1556,6 +1556,8 @@ WX_DECLARE_USER_EXPORTED_OBJARRAY(wxRichTextAttr, wxRichTextAttrArray, WXDLLIMPE
 
 WX_DECLARE_USER_EXPORTED_OBJARRAY(wxVariant, wxRichTextVariantArray, WXDLLIMPEXP_RICHTEXT);
 
+WX_DECLARE_USER_EXPORTED_OBJARRAY(wxRect, wxRichTextRectArray, WXDLLIMPEXP_RICHTEXT);
+
 /**
     @class wxRichTextProperties
     A simple property class using wxVariants. This is used to give each rich text object the
diff --git a/src/richtext/richtextbuffer.cpp b/src/richtext/richtextbuffer.cpp
index a5a35b1c07..1ba7c4f859 100644
--- a/src/richtext/richtextbuffer.cpp
+++ b/src/richtext/richtextbuffer.cpp
@@ -9403,10 +9403,6 @@ bool wxRichTextTable::Draw(wxDC& dc, wxRichTextDrawingContext& context, const wx
     return true;
 }
 
-WX_DECLARE_OBJARRAY(wxRect, wxRichTextRectArray);
-WX_DEFINE_OBJARRAY(wxRichTextRectArray);
-
-
     // Helper function for Layout() that clears the space needed by a cell with rowspan > 1
 int GetRowspanDisplacement(const wxRichTextTable* table, int row, int col, int paddingX, const wxArrayInt& colWidths)
 {
@@ -13905,9 +13901,8 @@ void wxTextAttrCollectCommonAttributes(wxTextAttr& currentStyle, const wxTextAtt
 }
 
 WX_DEFINE_OBJARRAY(wxRichTextVariantArray);
-
-// JACS 2013-01-27
 WX_DEFINE_OBJARRAY(wxRichTextAttrArray);
+WX_DEFINE_OBJARRAY(wxRichTextRectArray);
 
 IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxRichTextProperties, wxObject)