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 Concarneau (1880), Fairman Rogers, Philadelphia; Scene in Brittany—France (1880); Unloading Fish, Meadows of St. Vast (1883); Getting under Way, Coast at Ipswich, Coast at Annisquam (1884).

PICOT, FRANÇOIS ÉDOUARD, born in Paris, Oct. 17, 1786, died there, March 15, 1868. Genre painter, pupil of Vincent, and a follower, though not an imitator, of the school of David. Won the grand prix in 1813, and spent five years in Rome. Known as Le Père Picot on account of his many distinguished pupils, among whom were Pils, Cabanel, Henner, Bouguereau, Lenepveu, Bénouville, Gustave Moreau, and Émile Lévy. Member of Institute, 1836. Medal, 1st class, 1819; L. of Honour, 1852. Works: Meeting of Æneas and Venus (1815), Brussels Museum; Death of Sapphira (1819), Saint-Sulpice, Paris; Cupid and Psyche (1819), Duc d'Orléans; Orestes sleeping in the Arms of Electra (1822); Raphael and the Fornarina, Duc d'Orléans and his Family (1823); Release of St. Peter (1824); Cephalus and Procris (1824), Amiens Museum; Annunciation (1827); Genius unveiling Egypt to Greece, Cybele protecting Cities from Vesuvius (1833); Capture of Calais by Duc de Guise (1838), Truth with Justice and Wisdom protecting France, Monarchy protecting Order and Liberty, France defending the Charter (1835), Frederic Barbarossa, Baldwin I. Emperor of Constantinople, Marshals Boucicault, La Marck, La Force, Montmorency, and three other portraits, Versailles Museum; Episode during Plague at Florence (1839), Grenoble Museum; Ceilings in the Louvre, and decorations in several churches of Paris.—Bellier, ii. 266; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 38.

PICOU, HENRI PIERRE, born at Nantes in 1822. History and genre painter, pupil of Delaroche and of Gleyre. Medals: 2d class, 1848, 1857. Works: Children of the Nile (1847); Cleopatra on the Cydnus (1848), Aix Museum; Birth of Pindar, Beside the River (1849); The Styx (1849), Nature (1850), Nantes Museum; Growing Love, Waning Love (1850); Temptation, Spirit of Night, Fates (1852); Octavius and Cleopatra (1853), Amiens Museum; Rural Scene (1853); Love at Auction, Harvest of Loves (1855); Star of Evening, Sultana's Bath (1857); Marshes of Philostratus (1859); Dressing (1861); Sappho, Women of Batz (1863); Inundation of the Loire (1865); Dream of Fra Angelico (1866); First Kiss (1867); Molière at Versailles, Moses on the Nile (1870); Psyche in Hades (1873); Aquarium (1874); Discord (1879); Love and Folly (1881); Love is Lighter than the Butterfly, Here is Pleasure, Ladies (1882); Love on the Penitential Stool, Love is not to be Chained (1883); Stella, Love (1884); Sans Souci! (1885); Woman Recumbent (1886).—Bellier, ii. 267; Larousse.

PIENEMAN, JAN WILLEM, born at Abcoude, near Amsterdam, baptized Nov. 7, 1779, died at Amsterdam, April 8, 1853. History and portrait painter, pupil of Amsterdam Academy, where he won a gold medal in 1800, and prizes in 1803 and 1804, but mostly self-taught; appointed in 1805 instructor of drawing at the artillery school at Amersfoort, he removed with it to The Hague and then to Delft, and in 1815 was made director of the royal gallery at The Hague, and in 1820 of the Amsterdam Academy. Visited London three times; was there in 1819-21 to paint portraits for his Battle of Waterloo. Member of Institute of the Netherlands, of Amsterdam, Brussels, and Ghent Academies. Order of Lion; Commander Order of Oaken Crown. Works: Lysimachus pardoned by Alexander the Great (1804); Death of Prince of Orange at Quatre-Bras; Surrender of Hasselt, Military Academy, Breda; Arcadian Landscape (1812), Battle of Waterloo (1824), Portraits (6, four dated 1819, 1825),