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(1871); Gypsy's Oak, Terms to the Besieged (1872); Flag of Truce, Sanctuary, Midnight Watch (1873); Juliet and Friar Lawrence, State Secret, Ho! Ho! Ho! (1874); Jacobites in 1745, Hal o' the Wynd's Smithy (1875); Knight of the Seventeenth Century (portrait of William Black), Hunted Down (1877); Rob Roy, The Laird (1878); Death Warrant (1879); Before the Battle, His Grace (1880); Her Grace, Trout Fishing in Highlands, Before his Peers (1881); Palmer's Tale, Eugene Aram, Duke of Monmouth before James II. (1882); Queen's Scholar at Westminster, Dost know this Waterfly? The Ransom, Jester's Merry Thought (1883); Reductio ad Absurdum, The Vigil, Site of Early Christian Altar (1884); Challenged! (1885); The Chieftain's Candlesticks (1886).—Meynell, 196; Portfolio (1878), 129.


PETZHOLDT, ERNST CHRISTIAN FREDERIK, born in Copenhagen, Jan. 1, 1805, died in Patras, Aug. 1, 1838. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy and of Eckersberg; travelled in Hartz Mountains in 1829 and in Italy and Sicily in 1830-35; returned to Denmark, and went in 1836 to Greece. Works: View in Capri; Villa of Hadrian at Tivoli (1833), Coast of Sicily (1836), Copenhagen Gallery; View from Villa Pamfili; View in Pontine Swamps.—Weilbach, 552.


PETZL, JOSEF, born in Munich, Dec. 23, 1803, died there, April 23,1871. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Langer, then in Berlin (1827) of Begas; spent one year in Dresden; travelled in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden; returned to Munich in 1831; went to Rome in 1832-34, and in the suite of King Otto to Greece and Constantinople; afterwards lived in Venice two years. Works: Greek Chiefs; Greek Wedding; Distribution of Inheritance; Runaway Daughter among Actors; Slave-Dealer and Eunuch showing Three Slaves to Pasha; The Novice, Berne Museum; On the Alp (1830), Signing of Marriage Contract in Rome (1838), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Tavern Scene on Prussian Frontier at Time of the Cholera (1833), Königsberg Museum; Tyrolese in Flight; Invalid; Best Shot. His brother Ferdinand (born in Munich, Oct. 19, 1819), is an architecture painter; an Interior of the Frauenkirche, Munich, by him, is in the Provinzial Museum, Hanover, and the Frauenkirche in Munich before its Restoration in 1858 (12 oil-sketches), in the New Pinakothek, Munich.—Dioskuren (1871), 147, 215; V. Müller, Handbuch München, 164; Nagler, Mon., iv. 95.


PEYROL. See Bonheur, Juliette.



PEYRON, JEAN FRANÇOIS PIERRE, born at Aix, Dec. 15, 1744, died in Paris, Jan. 20, 1814. Genre painter, pupil of Arnulfi and Lagrenée the elder. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1773. Returned to France in 1781; appointed director of the Gobelins, and admitted to the Academy in 1787. Works: Death of Seneca (1773); Cimon going to Prison; Socrates inducing Alcibiades to leave the House of a Courtesan; Curius Dentatus surprised by the Samnite Ambassadors; Funeral of Miltiades (1782); Alcestis devoting herself to Death to save Admetus (1785), Paulus Æmilius the Conqueror of Perseus (1804), Louvre; Curius Dentatus refusing the Presents of the Samnites (1787), Fontainebleau Palace (sketches for this in Marseilles and Grenoble Museums); Death of General Walhubert in Battle of Austerlitz (1808), Versailles Museum.—Bellier, ii. 258; Ch. Blanc, École française; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Biographie univ.


PFANNSCHMIDT, KARL GOTTFRIED, born at Mühlhausen, Thuringia, Sept. 15, 1819. History painter, pupil in Berlin of Daege and Cornelius; visited Italy several times, and studied especially the masters of the 15th and 16th centuries. Member, professor, and senator of Berlin Academy. Gold medal, Berlin, 1884. Works: Last Supper, Schlosskapelle, Berlin; Holy Family, Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Altarpiece, St. Paul's, Schwerin; Wall Paintings, Schloss-