PERCELLES under Belirendsen, and of Diisseldorf Acad- emy under Diicker ; travelled extensively in Germany and Switzerland ; lives in Diissel- dorf. Works : View on Kurisli Haff ; Land- scape in Holstein ; View in Hartz Moun- tains; Schweudi Alp in Switzerland; Au- tumn Morning ; Landscape with Cows. Miiller, 411. PERCELLES. See PorceJlis. PEREDA, ANTONIO DE, born at Valla- dolid in 1599, died in Madrid in 16(59. Spanish school ; pupil of Pedro de las Cue- vas ; when only eighteen years old painted a Conception which won him reputation. Employed by the Duke of Olivurez, he painted soon after, in the Palace of Buen Retiro, the Raising of the Siege of Genoa, for which lie received five hundred ducats. His masterpiece, The Disenchantment of Life, is in the Academy of San Fernando. Other works : St. Jerome, Madrid Museum ; Fruits and Musical Instruments, Louvre, Paris ; Fruit-Piece, Brussels Museum ; Fort- une Teller, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Officers playing at Draughts, Spanish Nobleman, , -) , OldPinuko- A- fa reread.**' r inch ; Still- life (two, 1652), Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Stirling, ii. 701; Ch. Blanc, Ecole espagnole ; Viardot, 263 ; Madrazo, 515. PEREIRA, GONCALVES, born in Lis- bon, July 23, 1839, died Oct. 2, 1878. Ani- mal painter, pupil of Lisbon Academy, es- pecially successful in painting the horse; was also a sculptor, and as such excelled in por- traits. Works: Vista da Tapata ; Turtle Dove and Cut ; Romeo and Juliet (Doves) ; many horse pictures. Meyer, Conv. Lex., xx. 764. PEREIRA, LEONEL MARQUES, born in Lisbon, Feb. 25, 1828. Genre painter, pupil and member of Lisbon Academy. Medal : Spanish Order of Isabella. Works : Market ; Village Festival. PERGER, SIGMUND FERDINAND VON, Ritter, born in Vienna, Aug. 17, 1778, died there in 1841. History and animal painter, pupil of Vienna Academy ; went to Italy in 1810, became court-painter in 1817, and custodian of the Belvedere Gallery in 1825. Works : Eucles bringing News of Victory at Marathon (1809) ; Horse-Race at Kopcsan (1816) ; Napoleon's Battle-Horse, William of Albarack compelling Alfred I. to marry his Daughter (1820) ; Margrave Leo- pold refusing Imperial Crown (1824) ; Afri- can Horse pursued by Tiger (1826) ; Ab- duction of Ganymede (1828) ; Horse Stable (1830) ; Stallions Playing (1832) ; Homer singing at Athens (1834); Emperor Rudolph I. at Royal Banquet in Aachen, Cupid flee- ing from Psyche (1835). Wurzbach, xxii. 13. PERICLES, picture. See Aristolaus. PERIGNON, ALEXIS, born in Paris in 1806, died there in April, 1882. Genre, history, and more especially portrait paint- er ; pupil of his father, Alexis Nicolas (1785 -1864), and of Gros. Medals : 3d class, 1836 ; 2cl class, 1838 ; 1st class, 1844 ; L. of Honour, 1856 ; Officer, 1870. Works : Death of Montaigne (1836) ; Woman taken in Adultery (1838) ; Christ carrying the Cross (1840) ; Christ in the Garden, Roger and Angelica (1841) ; Portraits of the King of Belgium and others. Bellier, ii. 234 ; Courrier de 1'Art (1881-82), 156 ; Larousse. PERFN, ALPHONSE, born in Paris, March 12, 1798, died in 1875. History and portrait painter, pupil of Guerin and of the Ecole des Beaux Arts ; went to Rome in 1827, became intimate with Orsel, and was influenced, like him, by the so-called Naza- rites, Overbeck, Veit, and others. Medals : 2d class, 1827 ; L. of Honour, 1854. Works : Samaritan Woman, Holy Family (1827) ; Italian Landscapes. Mural paintings : Glo- rification of the Eucharist, etc., Notre Dame de Lorette. Bellier, ii. 235, 305 ; Larousse. PERINO or PIERINO. See Vaga, Pe- rino del. PERNHARDT, MARCUS, bom at Unter- mieger, Carinthia, July 6, 1824. Landscape painter, pupil in Klagenfurt of Eduard von Moro ; excels in winter landscapes. Works : 416
