subjects, Madrid Museum.—Van den Branden, 1050.
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PEETERS, JAN, born in Antwerp, April
24, 1624, died in 1677. Flemish school;
marine painter, brother and pupil of Bonaventura,
and master of the guild in 1645;
was also a picture dealer, from 1658; spent
six months in Holland in 1659. Works:
View on the Scheldt (1670), Antwerp Museum;
Destruction of English Fleet at Chatham
(1667), Amsterdam Museum; Storm
and Shipwreck, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Agitated Sea (1667), Tropical Coast, Cassel
Gallery; Vessels engaged in Whaling,
Darmstadt Museum; Cottages and Peasants,
Dresden Museum; Storm at Sea (?),
Schleissheim Gallery; do., Schwerin Gallery;
Rocky Seashore, three others, Museum,
Vienna; others in Harrach and Liechtenstein
Galleries, ib. His son, Jan Frans,
born in 1655, and his daughter, Isabella
Josina, born in 1662, were also painters, and
his pupils.—Cat.
du Mus.
d'Anvers
(1874), 267; Kramm, v. 1264; Kugler
(Crowe), i. 262; Van den Branden, 1051.
PEIGNE (Pegna, Pegnia), HYACINTH
DE LA, born in Brussels about 1700, died
in Rome (?) after 1766. Flemish school;
landscape and battle painter, entered French
service as an engineer draughtsman, then
was in Sardinian and Austrian service; lived
in Rome at an advanced age. Works: Two
Views of the Pont Neuf in Paris (1743), Vienna
Museum.—Kramm, v. 1265.
PEIRSON, DEATH OF MAJOR, John
Singleton Copley, National Gallery, London;
canvas, H 8 ft. 1 in. × 11 ft. 11 in. Major
Peirson was killed in an engagement with
French troops at St. Helier, Jersey, Jan. 6,
1781. Scene: his body carried out of the
fight, while his black servant shoots the
French soldier who killed him. Principal
group all portraits, mostly officers of 95th
Regiment. Painted in 1783 as companion
to Death of Chatham; bought for National
Gallery at Lord Lyndhurst's sale, 1864.
Engraved by James Heath (1784); copied
by A. Kessler.—Cat. Nat. Gal.
PELEGRET, TOMAS, born in Toledo,
died in reign of Philip II. (1556-98) aged
84. Spanish school; pupil in Italy of Baldassare
Peruzzi and of Polidoro da Caravaggio;
settled in Saragossa about 1530 and
decorated the façades of many palaces and
churches. Painted also in Huesca, about
1550, the sacristy of the Cathedral. Pictures
in oil in Convent of S. Engracia, Saragossa,
attributed to him.—Stirling, i. 150.
PELEZ, FERNAND, born in Paris; contemporary.
Genre painter, pupil of Cabanel
and Barrias. Medals: 3d class, 1876; 2d
class, 1879; 1st class, 1880. Works: Adam
and Eve (1876); Death of the Emperor Commodus,
Roman Girl about to Bathe (1879);
At the Bathing Place, Little Chickweed-Seller
(1880); Motherhood, Girl Selling Chickweed
(1881); A Philosopher, Irreconcilable
(1882); Homeless (1883); A Family (1884),
M. de Lesseps; A Martyr, La Misère (1885);
The Victim (1886), John G. Johnson, Philadelphia.
PELHAM, PETER, born in London (?),
died in Boston in Dec., 1751. Portrait
painter and engraver; the earliest artist resident
in New England. Settled in Boston
in 1724-26, opened a school (1734) in which
painting was taught as a branch of education,
and in 1748 married Mrs. Mary Singleton,
widow of Richard Copley and mother
of the artist J. S. Copley. Work: Portrait
of the Rev. Cotton Mather, American Antiquarian
Society, Worcester (engraved by
Pelham in 1727). Engravings: Rev. C.
Mather (1727); Rev. I. Moorhead (1731);
Rev. Benjamin Colman (1734), after Smibert;
Rev. W. Cooper (1743), Rev. I. Sewall,
both after Smibert; Rev. T. Prince
(1750), after Greenwood; Gov. W. Shirley
(1747); Thomas Hollis (1750).—W. H. Whitmore,
Notes concerning Peter Pelham (Cambridge,
1867).
PELLEGRIN, LOUIS ANTOINE VICTOR,
born at Toulon in 1836. History
painter, pupil of Charles Comte. Works:
