Michelangelo's designs, he never approached Sebastian as a colourist. His portraits are superior to his compositions. Among his works are: Holy Family, Madrid Museum; do., Old Pinakothek, Munich; Visitation, SS. Annunziata, Florence; Madonna and Saints, Visitation, Louvre; Portrait of Andrea del Sarto, Berlin Museum; Supper at Emmaus, Florence Academy; Joseph presenting his Father to Pharaoh, Joseph accused by Potiphar, Venus kissed by Love, Birth of St. John Baptist, and portraits, Uffizi, Florence; Portrait of a Boy, National Gallery, London; others in the Louvre, Cassel and Oldenburg Galleries, Vienna Museum (3), Palazzo Pitti, Florence.—Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xi. 29; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 206.
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POOLE, PAUL FALCONER, born at
Bristol in 1810, died
in London, Sept. 22,
1879. History and
genre painter; exhibited
first picture,
The Well—a Scene
in Naples, at Royal
Academy in 1830;
elected an A.R.A. in
1846 and R.A. in
1861. Works: Herman
and Dorothea at the Fountain (1840);
Solomon Eagle preaching during the
Plague in London (1843); Beleaguered
Moors (1844); Arletta of Falaise (1848); The
Tempest (1849); Goths in Italy (1851);
Seventh Day of the Decameron (1855); Escape
of Glaucus and Ione (1860); Lighting
the Beacon on the Appearance of the Spanish
Armada (1864); Vision of Ezekiel (1875),
National Gallery.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Am. Art
Rev. (1879), 91; Art Journal (1859), 41;
Sandby, ii. 311.
POORE, HENRY R., born in Newark,
N. J., in 1858. Landscape painter, pupil
of the National Academy (1876), of the Pennsylvania
Academy, of Peter Moran (1877),
and of Luminais in Paris (1883). Studio
in Philadelphia. Works: Burro Train leaving
the Pueblo of Taos (1882); March Hill-*side,
Baying Hounds (1884), T. B. Clarke,
New York; Ulysses feigning Madness (1884);
After a Shower—Pincian Hill, Rome (1886).
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POORTER, WILLEM DE, born at Haarlem,
flourished there in 1635-43, died after
1645. Dutch school; history and still-life
painter, pupil of Rembrandt, probably at
Leyden in 1627-30. His colouring is powerful
and the execution careful; painted
also interiors. Works: Solomon offering to
the Strange Gods, Amsterdam Museum;
do. (1643), Moltke Collection, Copenhagen;
Taking of Samson, Berlin Museum; Ahasuerus
and Esther (1645), Woman taken in
Adultery, Simon with Infant Christ in the
Temple, Dresden Gallery; Raising of Lazarus,
Old Pinakothek, Munich; The Offering,
Queen of Sheba before Solomon (?),
Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Mercury
and Proserpine, Allegory of Peace (1643),
Copenhagen Gallery; Interior, Aremberg
Gallery, Brussels; Skull, Crown, Sceptre,
and Arms, Brunswick Gallery; Companion-*piece
(1630 or
1636), Rotterdam
Museum; Allegorical Figure of Emperor
Matthias, Wörlitz Gallery.—Kugler (Crowe),
ii. 378; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 436; Vosmaer,
Rembrandt, 63.
POPELIN-DUCARRE, CLAUDIUS
MARCEL, born in Paris; contemporary.
History painter, pupil of Ary Scheffer and
of Picot. Medal, 1865; L. of Honour, 1869.
Works: Dante reading his Poem to Giotto
(1852); St. Jerome (1853); Robert Estienne,
famous printer of 16th Century, surrounded
by Savants aiding him (1857); Calvin preaching
before Duchess of Ferrara, Guillaume
Budée, founder of Collège de France, studying
Greek (1859); Dante re-entering Florence
after Battle of Campaldino (1861);
Julius Cæsar (1864); Renaissance of Literature
(1865); Truth, Dante Alighieri, France
(1867).—Bellier, ii. 298.
PORCELLIS (Parcelles, Percellis), JAN,
born in Ghent about 1597 (?), died probably
at Soeterwoude, near Leyden, before