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 Inn, Wandering Gypsies, Gypsies in the Puszta (1856); Hungarian Volunteers (1860); Soldier sharing Bread with Children (1866); Vehicle with Wounded Soldiers; Kissing Couple; Gypsy lighting his Pipe; A Rendezvous, Vienna Museum; Hungarian Peasants' Halt in the Puszta, After the Duel, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam; Ambulance Wagon, Hungarian Volunteers, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Sunrise, T. A. Havemeyer, ib.; Market Scene in Hungary, J. H. Stebbins, ib.; Market of Sznolnok, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Allgem. K. C., viii. 602; Müller, 414; Wurzbach, xxii. 134; Zeitschr. f. b. K., viii. (Mittheilungen, i. 60).

St. Petronilla, Guercino, Capitol Gallery, Rome.

PETTER, ANTON, born in Vienna, April 2 (12?), 1781, died there, May 14, 1858. History painter, self-taught by copying in the Belvedere and Liechtenstein Galleries, Vienna; won six prizes at the Academy, of which he became a member in 1814, professor in 1820, and director in 1828. Visited Rome in 1808; honorary member of Milan, Venice, and Florence Academies. Works: Death of Meleager (1814); Alcibiades surprised by Socrates, Phædra slandering Hippolytus, Lais surprised by Aristippus (1820); Maximilian I. meeting his First-*born (1822, masterpiece); Joanna of Aragon (1824); Peter and Sapphira (1826); Wenceslaus of Bohemia begging for his Father's Body (1828); Caius Gracchus (1832); King Ahasuerus condemning Haman (1835); Junius Brutus swearing Vengeance (1843); Rudolph von Hapsburg weeping over the Body of Ottocar; Maximilian meeting Maria of Burgundy, Johanneum, Gratz.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1845), 219; Wurzbach, xxii. 135.

PETTER, FRANZ XAVER, born in Vienna, Oct. 22, 1791, died there, May 11, 1866. Flower painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Wegmaier, and afterwards professor. Works: Flowers in a Vase, Fruits and Parrot (1833), Vienna Museum; many in private galleries and collections in Vienna.—Wurzbach, xxii. 137.

PETTIE, JOHN, born in Edinburgh in 1839. History and genre painter, pupil of the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh; exhibited in 1861 The Armourers at the Royal Academy, and in 1862 removed to London; elected an A.R.A. in 1867, and R.A. in 1874. Works: The Armourers (1860); What d'ye lack, Madam? (1861); George Fox refusing to take the Oath at Holker Hall (1864), Drumhead Court Martial (1865); Arrested for Witchcraft (1866); The Doctor (1867); Pax Vobiscum, Tussle with a Highland Smuggler, Weary with Present Cares, The Rehearsal (1868); Disgrace of Wolsey, Gambler's Victim (1869); A Sally, Blythe May Day, Touchstone and Audrey (1870); Ped