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 *kirche, ib.; Resurrection, St. Mary's, Barth, Pomerania; Altarpiece, St. Gotthard's, Brandenburg; Entombment, The Holy Women at Christ's Tomb (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Christl. Kunstbl. (1873), 38; Müller, 415; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 120.

PFEIFFER, WILHELM, born at Wolfenbüttel, Jan. 15,1822. Genre and animal painter; studied in Munich, where he now lives and paints chiefly small equestrian pieces, which are in great demand. Works: Landscape with Horses; Runaway Farm-Horse; Bringing in Hay before Storm, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Old Peasant and Scarecrow, New Pinakothek, Munich; Morning Ride (1879); Sowing (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).

PFLEGER, KARL NIKOLAUS, born in Munich, died there in 1688. German school; history painter, studied in Munich and for three years in Italy. Master of the guild in 1659, and one of the notable artists who worked in Munich during the second half of the 17th century. Court-painter in 1685. Works: Christ, Joachim, Joseph, Zachariah and Elizabeth (life-size), Incredulity of Thomas, Frauenkirche, Munich.—Nagler, xi. 218.

PFLUG, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at Biberach, Würtemberg, in 1785, died there in 1865. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy, where he copied old Dutch masters, especially Netscher; painted mostly humorous scenes from Suabian peasant life and military subjects; many of them are in the royal palaces at Stuttgart and Friedrichshafen. Works: The Gamblers; Peasant Wedding; Gypsy Family; Peasant Inn; Battle of Stockach (1842); Distribution of Medals among Veterans (1843); Austrian Hussars (1844); Departure of Russians from Waldsee; Several pictures at Villa Rosenstein, near Stuttgart.—Nagler, xi. 219.

PFORR, JOHANN GEORG, born at Upfen (Ulfen?), Hesse, Jan. 4, 1745, died in Frankfort, June 9, 1798. German school; animal painter, pupil of Cassel Academy; won the first prize in 1778, became member in 1779, and settled in Frankfort in 1781. Called the German Wouwerman, from his skill in painting the horse. Works: Horse Market, Falcon Chase (1786), Two English Horses (1797), Turkish Stallion (1798), four others, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Others in Rehn Collection, ib.; Horses taken to Pond, Oldenburg Gallery. His son Franz (born in Frankfort, April 5, 1788, died at Albano, June 16, 1812) was a history painter, pupil of Tischbein in Cassel, then of Vienna Academy, where he was allied with Overbeck, with whom he went to Rome and became a follower of Cornelius. Work: Rudolph von Hapsburg giving his Horse to the Priest, Städel Gallery, Frankfort.—Förster, iv. 228; Nagler, xi. 221; do, Mon, ii. 795; Riegel, Gesch. des Wiederauflebens der d. K. (Leipsic, 1882), 244, 247.

PHASIS, painter, date unknown; mentioned in an epigram by Cornelius Longinus as having painted a picture of the Athenian general Cynegirus, distinguished at Marathon (490 ).—Herod, vi. 114; Anthol. Gr., ii. 184, 2 (Planud., iv. 117); Sillig, 33.

PHELAN, CHARLES T., born in New York in 1840. Landscape painter, pupil of Professor Rondel. Exhibits at the National Academy. Studio in New York. Works: Storm and Sheep, Brook in Ulster County (1880); Near Ravenswood, Suburb in Long Island (1881); Sheep Drinking, Sheep going to Pasture (1882); Autumn Study—Ravenswood (1884), T. B. Clarke, New York.

PHELPS, WILLIAM PRESTON, born in New Hampshire; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Velten in Munich. Occasionally exhibits at National Academy. Studio in Lowell, Mass. Works: Forest Scene near Munich, Morning, Evening (1878); Tillers of the Soil, Autumn (1880).

PHILIP II., portrait, Titian, Palazzo Giustiniani, Padua; canvas, H. 3 ft. 9 in. × 3 ft. 1 in. The Prince, in black-silk doublet and white pelisse, sitting in an arm-chair. Painted in Augsburg in 1550; from the Bar