Inn, Wandering Gypsies, Gypsies in the Puszta (1856); Hungarian Volunteers (1860); Soldier sharing Bread with Children (1866); Vehicle with Wounded Soldiers; Kissing Couple; Gypsy lighting his Pipe; A Rendezvous, Vienna Museum; Hungarian Peasants' Halt in the Puszta, After the Duel, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam; Ambulance Wagon, Hungarian Volunteers, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Sunrise, T. A. Havemeyer, ib.; Market Scene in Hungary, J. H. Stebbins, ib.; Market of Sznolnok, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Allgem. K. C., viii. 602; Müller, 414; Wurzbach, xxii. 134; Zeitschr. f. b. K., viii. (Mittheilungen, i. 60).
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St. Petronilla, Guercino, Capitol Gallery, Rome.
PETTER, ANTON, born in Vienna, April
2 (12?), 1781, died there, May 14, 1858.
History painter, self-taught by copying in
the Belvedere and Liechtenstein Galleries,
Vienna; won six prizes at the Academy, of
which he became a member in 1814, professor
in 1820, and director in 1828. Visited
Rome in 1808; honorary member of Milan,
Venice, and Florence Academies. Works:
Death of Meleager (1814); Alcibiades surprised
by Socrates, Phædra slandering
Hippolytus, Lais surprised by Aristippus
(1820); Maximilian I. meeting his First-*born
(1822, masterpiece); Joanna of Aragon
(1824); Peter and Sapphira (1826); Wenceslaus
of Bohemia begging for his Father's
Body (1828); Caius Gracchus (1832);
King Ahasuerus condemning Haman (1835);
Junius Brutus swearing Vengeance (1843);
Rudolph von Hapsburg weeping over the
Body of Ottocar; Maximilian meeting Maria
of Burgundy, Johanneum, Gratz.—Cotta's
Kunstbl. (1845), 219; Wurzbach, xxii.
135.
PETTER, FRANZ XAVER, born in Vienna,
Oct. 22, 1791, died there, May 11,
1866. Flower painter, pupil of Vienna
Academy under Wegmaier, and afterwards
professor. Works: Flowers in a Vase,
Fruits and Parrot (1833), Vienna Museum;
many in private galleries and collections in
Vienna.—Wurzbach, xxii. 137.
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PETTIE, JOHN, born in Edinburgh in
1839. History and genre
painter, pupil of the Trustees'
Academy, Edinburgh;
exhibited in 1861 The Armourers
at the Royal Academy,
and in 1862 removed
to London; elected an A.R.A.
in 1867, and R.A. in
1874. Works: The Armourers
(1860); What d'ye
lack, Madam? (1861); George Fox refusing
to take the Oath at Holker Hall (1864),
Drumhead Court Martial (1865); Arrested
for Witchcraft (1866); The Doctor (1867);
Pax Vobiscum, Tussle with a Highland
Smuggler, Weary with Present Cares, The
Rehearsal (1868); Disgrace of Wolsey, Gambler's
Victim (1869); A Sally, Blythe May
Day, Touchstone and Audrey (1870); Ped-
