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 Museum, Amsterdam; Portrait of Carel Joseph Fodor, Fodor Museum, ib.; Deathbed of William of Orange, August Belmont, New York.—Immerzeel, ii. 304; Kramm, v 1279; D. Kunstbl. (1853), 157; Nagler, xi. 285; Schotel, Biog. Woordenboek der Nederlanden.

PIENEMAN, NICOLAAS, born at Amersfoort, Jan. 1, 1810, died at Amsterdam, Dec. 29, 1860. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of preceding, and one of the best Dutch artists of modern times; skilful grouping, powerful colouring, and a happy distribution of light and shade make his historical paintings very effective. Visited England, France, Germany, and Belgium. Member of Amsterdam Academy. Order of Lion, 1844; L. of Honour, 1855; Commander Order of Oaken Crown. Works: Archimedes murdered at Syracuse (1830); Death of Admiral Ruyter (1834); Peter the Great at Zaandam (1834); Magdalena Mens entreating Valdes, her Betrothed, to raise Siege of Leyden (1835); Sentence of Oldenbarneveld (1835); Jacobea of Bavaria and her Ladies (1836); Prince Willem I. wounded at Antwerp (1838); Prince Maurice announcing to States General that he will besiege Dunkirk (1838); Prince Willem I. nursed by Charlotte of Bourbon (1840); Homage to King Willem II. at Amsterdam in 1840 (1841), Portrait of Jan Willem Pieneman, Museum, Amsterdam; do. of King Willem III., Child's Head, Museum Fodor, ib.; Portrait of King Willem III., Rotterdam Museum; An Arab, Stuttgart Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 308; Kramm, v. 1281; vii. 118; Nederl. Kunstblad (1844), No. 46; Schotel, Biog. Woordenboek der Nederlanden.

PIERO DI COSIMO. See Cosimo.

PIERO DI LORENZO. See Cosimo.

PIERRE, JEAN BAPTISTE MARIE, born in Paris in 1713, died in Paris, May 15, 1789. French school; history painter, pupil of Natoire and of Debroq; won grand prix de Rome in 1734. Member of Academy, 1742; assistant professor, 1744; professor, 1748; assistant rector, 1768; director, 1770; painter to the Duc d'Orléans, and succeeded Coypel as painter to the king; superintendent of the Gobelins. Works: Beheading of John Baptist, Aglaurus changed into Stone, Louvre; Diomed killed by Hercules (1742); St. Peter healing the Lame Man, Death of Herod, St. Germain des Prés, Paris; St. Francis, St. Sulpice, ib.; The Cupola of St. Roch, ib.; Andromeda carried to the Boat, Aix Museum; Martyrdom of St. Stephen, Marseilles Museum; Hercules overcoming Diomed (1742), Montpellier Museum; Birth of the Virgin, Presentation of the Virgin, Grand Seminary, Orléans; The Boy Christ with his Parents returning from Jerusalem, Basle Museum; Bacchus, Prometheus, Carlsruhe Gallery.—Bellier, ii. 269; Jal, 968; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Ch. Blanc, École française; Biog. universelle; Lejeune, Guide, i. 245; iii. 207.

PIERSON, CHRISTOFFEL, born at The Hague, May 19, 1631, died at Gouda, Aug. 11, 1714. Dutch school; painted still-*life, drinking-vessels, and eatables with much skill, though in a somewhat heavy brown tone. Works: Implements of the Chase, Haarlem Museum; Still Life (assigned to Willem Gabron ?), Darmstadt Museum; do. (?), Leipsic Museum.—Bode, Studien, 224;