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 more successful as a portrait painter, though he does not occupy high rank as a colourist. Among his sitters were the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Duke of Sussex, Marchioness of Stafford, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Egremont, Lord Byron, Hallam, Southey, Coleridge, Crabbe, Faraday, and many other notabilities. Works: Wood Nymph, Sir David Wilkie, National Gallery; Sir N. Tindal, Lord Thurlow, Blake, Faraday, Sir F. Burdett, Byron, Chantrey, Dibdin, National Portrait Gallery, London. His son, Henry Wyndham Phillips (1820-68), was also a successful portrait painter.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 373; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, i. 331.

PHILOCHARES, Greek painter, supposed to have been identical with the brother of Æschines (389-314 B.C.), of whom Demosthenes speaks contemptuously (De Fals. Legat., 237), but whom Ulpian ranks with the greatest painters (Ad. Demos., 386). Pliny says (xxxv. 10 [27]) that Augustus consecrated two of his pictures, one of which represented an old man and his son, on the wall of the Curia and in the Comitium, Rome.—Brunn, ii. 257.

PHILOCLES, a very early Egyptian painter, date unknown. Pliny says (xxxv. 5 [16]) that the invention of line drawing has been assigned both to him and to Cleanthes of Corinth.

PHILOMELA AND PROCNE, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, oval, H. 5 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. Figures draped, three-quarters length, one with a lyre, the other with a tambourine. Painted in 1861.

PHILOSOPHER IN MEDITATION, Rembrandt, Louvre, Paris; wood, H. 11 in. × 1 ft. 1 in.; signed, dated 1633. A bearded old man, in a fur-trimmed robe, seated in contemplation before an open window, in a vaulted apartment, beside a table on which are books and an inkstand; at right, a woman ascending a winding staircase; in fore-*ground, at right, another woman tending a fire. This, and the following picture, sold at the sale of Comte de Vence (1750), 3,000 livres; sale of Duc de Choiseul (1772), 14,000 livres; sale of M. Randon de Boisset (1777), 10,900 livres; sale of Comte de Vaudreuil (1784), 13,000 livres. Engraved by Surugue (1754); R. Houston; Herstel; W. Baillie; M. Bisi, with changes; Wattelet; J. Longhi.—Musée français; Filhol, viii. Pl. 575, Vosmaer, 35, 431; Smith, vii. 66.

By Rembrandt, Louvre; wood, H. 11 in. × 1 ft. 1 in. An old man, in dark robe and velvet cap, seated in meditation before a closed window, in a vaulted room, beside a table on which are books and a globe; at left, a winding stairway. History and engravers same as preceding. Painted in 1633.—Filhol, iv. Pl. 261; Musée français; Vosmaer, 35, 431; Smith, vii. 66.

Philosophers, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

PHILOSOPHERS, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 5 ft. × 4 ft. 2 in. Figures half-length, around a table. At right, Hugo Grotius, his dog with his paws on his knee; in centre, Justus Lipsius, with an open book before him; next, Philip Rubens, with a pen in his hand; behind the last, at left, the painter himself, standing. En