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 PEETEKS subjects, Madrid Museum. Van den Bran- den, 1050. PEETERS, JAN, born in Antwerp, April 24, 1624, died in 1677. Flemish school ; marine painter, brother and pupil of Boua- ventura, and master of the guild in 1045 ; was also a picture dealer, from 1658 ; spent six months in Holland in 1659. Works : View on the Scheldt (1670), Antwerp Muse- um ; Destruction of English Fleet at Chat- ham (1667), Amsterdam Museum ; Storm and Shipwreck, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Agitated Sea (1667), Tropical Coast, Cas- sel Gallery ; Vessels engaged in Whaling, Darmstadt Museum ; Cottages and Peas- ants, Dresden Museum ; Storm at Sea (?), Schleissheim Gallery ; do., Sehwerin Gal- lery ; Rocky Seashore, three others, Muse- um, Vienna ; others in Harrach and Liech- tenstein Galleries, ib. His son, Jan Fraus, born in 1655, and his daughter, Isabella Josina, born in 1662, were also painters, and his pupils. Cat. du Mus. d'A n v e r s (1874), 267 ; Kramm, v. 1264 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 262 ; Van den Brandon, 1051. PEIGNE (Pegua, Peguia), HYACINTH DE LA, born in Brussels about 1700, died in Rome (?) after 1766. Flemish school ; landscape and battle painter, entered French service as an engineer draughtsman, then was in Sardinian and Austrian service ; lived in Rome at an advanced age. Works : Two Views of the Pont Neuf in Paris (1743), Vi- enna Museum. Kramm, v. 1265. PEIRSON, DEATH OF MAJOR, John Singleton Copley, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 8 ft. 1 in. x 11 ft. 11 in. Major Peirson was killed in an engagement with French troops at St. Helier, Jersey, Jan. 6, 1781. Scene : his body carried, out of the fight, while his black servant shoots the French soldier who killed him. Principal group all portraits, mostly officers of 95th Regiment. Painted in 1783 as companion to Death of Chatham ; bought for National Gallery at Lord Lyndhurst's sale, 1864. ^p y* s. J / f>j&t, t* s > S Engraved by James Heatli (1784) ; copied by A. Kessler. Cat, Nat. Gal. PELEGRET, TOMAS, born in Toledo, died in reign of Philip H. (1556-98) aged 84. Spanish school ; pupil in Italy of Bal- dassare Peruzzi and of Polidoro da Caravag- gio ; settled in Saragossa about 1530 and decorated the fayades of many palaces and churches. Painted also in Huesca, about 1 1550, the sacristy of the Cathedral. Pict- ures in oil in Convent of S. Engracia, Sara- gossa, attributed to him. Stirling, i. 150. PELEZ, FERNAND, born in Paris ; con- temporary. Genre painter, pupil of Cabanel and Barrias. Medals : 3d class, 1876 ; 2d ' class, 1879 ; 1st class, 1880. Works : Adam and Eve (1876); Death of the Emperor Corn- modus, Roman Girl about to Bathe (1879) ; At the Bathing Place, Little Chickweed-Sel- ler (1880); Motherhood, Girl Selling Chick- weed (1881); A Philosopher, Irreconcilable (1882V, Homeless (1883); A Family (1884), M. de Lesseps ; A Martyr, La Mist're (1885); The Victim (1886), John G. Johnson, Phila- delphia. PELHAM, PETER, born in London (?), died in Boston in Dec., 1751. Portrait painter and engraver ; the earliest artist resi- dent in New England. Settled in Boston in 1724-26, opened a school (1734) in which painting was taught as a branch of educa- tion, and in 1748 married Mrs. Mary Single- ton, widow of Richard Copley and mother of the artist J. S. Copley. Work : Portrait of the Rev. Cotton Mather, American Anti- quarian Society, Worcester (engraved by Pelham in 1727). Engravings : Rev. C. Mather (1727) ; Rev. I. Moorhead (1731) ; Rev. Benjamin Colmau (1734), after Smi- bert ; Rev. W. Cooper (1743), Rev. I. Sew- all, both after Smibert ; Rev. T. Prince (1750), after Greenwood ; Gov. W. Shirley (1747); Thomas Hollis (1750). W. H. Whit- more, Notes concerning Peter Pelham (Cam- bridge, 1867). PELLEGRIN, LOUIS ANTOINE VIC- TOR, born at Toulon in 1836. History painter, pupil of Charles Comte. Works :