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 POWELL 18G9); Graham, Memoirs of P.; Jal, 997;, Keane, Early Masters, 486 ; Memoires in- tklits, i. 245, 315, 342 ; Colburn's Mag., cxii. 490 ; cxxxiv. 214 ; Penny Mag., xi. 161 ; Fine Arts Quarterly, i. 175, 263 ; iii. 105 ; Bliickwood's Mag., ix. 23 ; London Mag., iv. 176 ; Eclectic Eev., xxxi. 214 ; Art Jour- nal, v. 9, 46 ; Fortnightly Kev., xvii. 472 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 308 ; xi. (Mittheilung- en, iv. 10) ; Mag. of Art (1885), 152. POWELL, WILLIAM H., born in Ohio in 1824, died in New York, Oct. 6, 1879. Portrait and history painter, studied in Italy and France. Associate of the National Academy, New York. Works : Perry's Vic- tory on Lake Erie, Capitol, Washington ; Landing of the Pilgrims, Scott's Entry into [ the City of Mexico (Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York) ; Discovery of the Jlissixnipjti, Capitol, Washington. Portraits : General McClellan, Major Anderson, City Hall, New York ; Albert Gallatin (1843), Erastus C. Benedict, Historical Society, ib. ; Washing- ton Irving ; Lamartine ; Alexandre Dumas. Am. Art. Kev. (1880), 47 ; Tuckermau, 458. POYNTER, EDWARD JOHN, born in Paris, March 20, 1836. History painter, sou of Ambrose Poynter, ar- chitect ; pupil in Lon- don of Leigh's Art- School, of W. C. T. D o b s o n, and of the Royal Academy, and in Paris of M. Gleyre in 1856-59 ; in 1860 re- turned to London, where lie has since re- sided. He became an A.R.A. in 1869, and R.A. in 1876 ; was Slade professor of fine arts at University College, London, from 1870 to 1875, when he was chosen director of the art schools at South Kensington Mu- seum. He has done some fine decorative work in mosaic in the Houses of Parliament and in St. Paul's, and in fresco in St. Ste- phen's, Dulwich. Works : The Syren, Egyp- tian Sentinel (1864) ; Faithful unto Death (1865) ; Offerings to Isis (1866) ; Israel in Egypt (1867) ; The Catapult (1868) ; Pros- erpine (1869) ; Andromeda (1870) ; Suppli- ant to Venus, Feeding the Sacred Ibis (1871) ; Perseus and Andromeda (1872) ; Dragon of Wantley (1873) ; Rhodope (1874) ; Festival, Golden Age (1875) ; Atalanta's Race (1876) ; Fortune-Teller (1877) ; Jersey Lily (Mrs. Langtry), Zeuobia Captive (1878) ; Nausicaa and her Maidens (1879) ; Venus and ^sculapius (1880) ; Helen (1881) ; In the Tepidarium (1882) ; Psyche, The Ides of March (1883) ; Diadnmene (1884) ; do. (H. 7 ft. 1 in. X4 ft. 2 in., 1885). Art Jour- nal (1881), 26; (1885), 340; Athemeurn (1881), i. 271; (1886), i. 463; Portfolio (1870), 1 ; (1877), 11 ; Univ. Mag. (1878), ii. 24 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 371. PRADILLA, FRANCISCO, born at Villa- nueva de Gallego, Saragossa, in 1847. His- tory and genre painter, pupil of San Fer- nando Academy, Madrid, then of Spanish Academy in Rome, of which he was after- wards director ; has acquired reputation at exhibitions of late years. Medal of honour, Paris ; L. of Honour, 1878. Medals : Vien- na, 1882 ; 1st class, Munich, 1883. Works : Strand of Vigo ; The Elopement ; Rape of Sabine Women ; Jeane la Folle following her Husband's Coffin (1878) ; replica (1879) ; Don Alfonso the AVarrior, Don Alfonso the Scholar, Procession in Venice (1879); Read- ing on Balcony (1880) ; La Fiorella (1881) ; Surrender of Granada (1883) ; Lackey Asleep (1884). Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 752 ; Kunst- Chronik, xix. 616 ; D. Rundschau, xx. 467 ; La Ilustracion (1879), i. 6 ; (1881), i. 27 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, xix. 318. PRADO, BLAS DEL, born at Toledo about 1540, died about 1600. Spanish school ; probably pupil of Francisco de Commontes ; became in 1591 second paint- er to the chapter of the Cathedral of Toledo. In 1593 sent by Philip H. to Sultan of Fez, who had asked him for a good artist. Prado painted some portraits for him, among them his daughter, and returned home en- riched with gifts. He is said to have re- 468