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 1846, 1857, and 1861; L. of Honour, 1861. Works: Adam and Eve (1836); Virgin with Angels (1837); St. Francis receiving the Stigmata (1838); St. Martin dividing his Cloak, Christ at the Column (1830); Joan of Arc (1858), Orléans Museum; Paintings at St. Séverin, St. Eustache, St. Sulpice, St. Roch, and Jesuits, Paris; Portraits of Isambert, D. Miguel, and Bresson.—Bellier, ii. 265; Larousse.

PICK-A-BACK, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Monson, England. Portrait of Mrs. Payne-Gallwey, with her little daughter on her shoulder, enjoying a frolic together. The lady was Philadelphia, daughter of General De Lancey and wife of Stephen Payne, who took name of Gallwey—of Tofts Hall, Norfolk. The little girl, their only child, was Charlotte, who married, in 1797, John Moseley, Esq., of Glenham House, Suffolk. Painted about 1779. Engraved by J. R. Smith; Zobel (1874).—Athenæum, Dec., 1874, 758; Stephens, English Children by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

PICKERING, Miss EVELYN; contemporary. Figure and portrait painter. Exhibits chiefly in Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Ariadne in Naxos (1877); Venus and Cupid (1878); Night and Sleep (1879); Mater Dolorosa, Medea (1880); The Gray Sisters, Angel of Death (1881); Christian Martyr, Phosphorus and Hesperus (1882); By the Rivers of Babylon (1883); Mater Dolorosa, Subject from Tibullus (1884); A Dryad (1885); The Dawn (1886).

PICKERSGILL, FREDERICK RICHARD, born in London in 1820. History painter; nephew of H. W. Pickersgill; pupil of his mother's brother, W. F. Witherington, and student in 1840 of Royal Academy, where he exhibited in 1841, Combat between Hercules and Achelous, and Amoret delivered by Britomart. Won in 1843 a prize of £100 for cartoon of Death of King Lear, exhibited at Westminster Hall, and in 1847 one of £500 for painting of Burial of Harold, bought for Houses of Parliament. Elected an A.R.A. in 1847, and R.A. in 1857; keeper and trustee of Royal Academy since 1874. Works: Britomart unveiling Amoret (1848); Circe (1849); Rape of Prosperine (1850); Pan and Syrinx (1852); Death of Francesco Foscari (1854); Britomart Unarming (1855); Duke Orsino and Viola (1857); The Bribe (1858); Delilah asking Forgiveness of Samson (1859); Frederick banishing Rosalind (1861); Crusader's Return (1862); Ferdinand and Miranda (1863); Unfriended (1865); Columbus at Lisbon (1868); Old Letters (1875).—Sandby, ii. 304.

PICKERSGILL, HENRY WILLIAM, born in London, Dec. 3, 1782, died April 21, 1875. Portrait and history painter, pupil of George Arnold, and student of Royal Academy in 1805. Elected an A.R.A. in 1822, and R.A. in 1826; librarian in 1856. Began by painting historical and mythological subjects, but finally devoted himself almost exclusively to portraiture, in which he was very successful. His portrait of Robert Vernon (1846) is in the National Gallery; portraits of Wordsworth, Godwin, Bentham, M. G. Lewis, Hannah More, Stephenson, Talfourd, National Portrait Gallery. Many works in the College Halls at Oxford. Among other ideal works are: Falconer of the Olden Time (1861); Rivals (1862); First Lesson (1871); Streamlet (1872). His son, Henry Hall (died 1861), was a portrait and history painter.—Sandby, ii. 47; Art Journal (1875), 231.

PICKNELL, WILLIAM L., born in Boston, Mass., in 1853. Landscape painter, pupil in Rome of George Inness, and in Paris of Gérôme; painted in Brittany for several years under Robert Wylie. Honourable mention, Paris Salon, 1880. Returned to America in 1882. Studio in Boston. Works: On the Lande—Brittany (1875); Breton Peasant Girl feeding Ducks (1877); Fields of Kerren (1878); Road to