Concarneau (1880), Fairman Rogers, Philadelphia; Scene in Brittany—France (1880); Unloading Fish, Meadows of St. Vast (1883); Getting under Way, Coast at Ipswich, Coast at Annisquam (1884).
PICOT, FRANÇOIS ÉDOUARD, born
in Paris, Oct. 17, 1786, died there, March
15, 1868. Genre painter, pupil of Vincent,
and a follower, though not an imitator, of
the school of David. Won the grand prix
in 1813, and spent five years in Rome.
Known as Le Père Picot on account of his
many distinguished pupils, among whom
were Pils, Cabanel, Henner, Bouguereau,
Lenepveu, Bénouville, Gustave Moreau, and
Émile Lévy. Member of Institute, 1836.
Medal, 1st class, 1819; L. of Honour, 1852.
Works: Meeting of Æneas and Venus (1815),
Brussels Museum; Death of Sapphira (1819),
Saint-Sulpice, Paris; Cupid and Psyche
(1819), Duc d'Orléans; Orestes sleeping in
the Arms of Electra (1822); Raphael and
the Fornarina, Duc d'Orléans and his Family
(1823); Release of St. Peter (1824); Cephalus
and Procris (1824), Amiens Museum;
Annunciation (1827); Genius unveiling Egypt
to Greece, Cybele protecting Cities from Vesuvius
(1833); Capture of Calais by Duc de
Guise (1838), Truth with Justice and Wisdom
protecting France, Monarchy protecting
Order and Liberty, France defending
the Charter (1835), Frederic Barbarossa,
Baldwin I. Emperor of Constantinople, Marshals
Boucicault, La Marck, La Force, Montmorency,
and three other portraits, Versailles
Museum; Episode during Plague at
Florence (1839), Grenoble Museum; Ceilings
in the Louvre, and decorations in several
churches of Paris.—Bellier, ii. 266;
Claretie, Peintres (1874), 38.
PICOU, HENRI PIERRE, born at Nantes
in 1822. History and genre painter, pupil
of Delaroche and of Gleyre. Medals:
2d class, 1848, 1857. Works: Children of
the Nile (1847); Cleopatra on the Cydnus
(1848), Aix Museum; Birth of Pindar, Beside
the River (1849); The Styx (1849),
Nature (1850), Nantes Museum; Growing
Love, Waning Love (1850); Temptation,
Spirit of Night, Fates (1852); Octavius and
Cleopatra (1853), Amiens Museum; Rural
Scene (1853); Love at Auction, Harvest of
Loves (1855); Star of Evening, Sultana's
Bath (1857); Marshes of Philostratus (1859);
Dressing (1861); Sappho, Women of Batz
(1863); Inundation of the Loire (1865);
Dream of Fra Angelico (1866); First Kiss
(1867); Molière at Versailles, Moses on the
Nile (1870); Psyche in Hades (1873); Aquarium
(1874); Discord (1879); Love and
Folly (1881); Love is Lighter than the Butterfly,
Here is Pleasure, Ladies (1882); Love
on the Penitential Stool, Love is not to be
Chained (1883); Stella, Love (1884); Sans
Souci! (1885); Woman Recumbent (1886).—Bellier,
ii. 267; Larousse.
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PIENEMAN, JAN WILLEM, born at
Abcoude, near Amsterdam,
baptized
Nov. 7, 1779, died
at Amsterdam, April
8, 1853. History
and portrait painter,
pupil of Amsterdam
Academy,
where he won a
gold medal in 1800,
and prizes in 1803
and 1804, but mostly self-taught; appointed
in 1805 instructor of drawing at the artillery
school at Amersfoort, he removed
with it to The Hague and then to Delft,
and in 1815 was made director of the royal
gallery at The Hague, and in 1820 of the
Amsterdam Academy. Visited London three
times; was there in 1819-21 to paint portraits
for his Battle of Waterloo. Member
of Institute of the Netherlands, of Amsterdam,
Brussels, and Ghent Academies. Order
of Lion; Commander Order of Oaken
Crown. Works: Lysimachus pardoned by
Alexander the Great (1804); Death of Prince
of Orange at Quatre-Bras; Surrender of
Hasselt, Military Academy, Breda; Arcadian
Landscape (1812), Battle of Waterloo
(1824), Portraits (6, four dated 1819, 1825),
