more successful as a portrait painter, though he does not occupy high rank as a colourist. Among his sitters were the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Duke of Sussex, Marchioness of Stafford, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Egremont, Lord Byron, Hallam, Southey, Coleridge, Crabbe, Faraday, and many other notabilities. Works: Wood Nymph, Sir David Wilkie, National Gallery; Sir N. Tindal, Lord Thurlow, Blake, Faraday, Sir F. Burdett, Byron, Chantrey, Dibdin, National Portrait Gallery, London. His son, Henry Wyndham Phillips (1820-68), was also a successful portrait painter.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 373; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, i. 331.
PHILOCHARES, Greek painter, supposed
to have been identical with the brother of
Æschines (389-314 B.C.), of whom Demosthenes
speaks contemptuously (De Fals.
Legat., 237), but whom Ulpian ranks with
the greatest painters (Ad. Demos., 386).
Pliny says (xxxv. 10 [27]) that Augustus
consecrated two of his pictures, one of
which represented an old man and his son,
on the wall of the Curia and in the Comitium,
Rome.—Brunn, ii. 257.
PHILOCLES, a very early Egyptian
painter, date unknown. Pliny says (xxxv.
5 [16]) that the invention of line drawing
has been assigned both to him and to Cleanthes
of Corinth.
PHILOMELA AND PROCNE, William
Adolphe Bouguereau, Luxembourg Museum;
canvas, oval, H. 5 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. Figures
draped, three-quarters length, one with
a lyre, the other with a tambourine. Painted
in 1861.
PHILOSOPHER IN MEDITATION,
Rembrandt, Louvre, Paris; wood, H. 11 in.
× 1 ft. 1 in.; signed, dated 1633. A bearded
old man, in a fur-trimmed robe, seated in
contemplation before an open window, in a
vaulted apartment, beside a table on which
are books and an inkstand; at right, a woman
ascending a winding staircase; in fore-*ground,
at right, another woman tending a
fire. This, and the following picture, sold
at the sale of Comte de Vence (1750), 3,000
livres; sale of Duc de Choiseul (1772), 14,000
livres; sale of M. Randon de Boisset (1777),
10,900 livres; sale of Comte de Vaudreuil
(1784), 13,000 livres. Engraved by Surugue
(1754); R. Houston; Herstel; W. Baillie;
M. Bisi, with changes; Wattelet; J. Longhi.—Musée
français; Filhol, viii. Pl. 575, Vosmaer,
35, 431; Smith, vii. 66.
By Rembrandt, Louvre; wood, H. 11 in. × 1 ft. 1 in. An old man, in dark robe and velvet cap, seated in meditation before a closed window, in a vaulted room, beside a table on which are books and a globe; at left, a winding stairway. History and engravers same as preceding. Painted in 1633.—Filhol, iv. Pl. 261; Musée français; Vosmaer, 35, 431; Smith, vii. 66.
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Philosophers, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
PHILOSOPHERS, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti,
Florence; wood, H. 5 ft. × 4 ft. 2 in. Figures
half-length, around a table. At right,
Hugo Grotius, his dog with his paws on his
knee; in centre, Justus Lipsius, with an
open book before him; next, Philip Rubens,
with a pen in his hand; behind the last,
at left, the painter himself, standing. En-
