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 influenced by his brother; visited repeatedly Rome, Paris, and Vienna. Honourary member of Munich Academy. Works: Sir Thomas More in Prison, Wiesbaden Gallery; Raphael on his Death-Bed; Queen of Naples as Heroine at Gaëta; Count Eberhard of Würtemberg beside the Body of his Son (1865); Solomon's Judgment; Review of Queen Elizabeth in Sight of the Armada, Maximilianeum, Munich; After the Meeting; Doctor of Last Century; Capuchin Sermon in Rome. In fresco: Entry of Max I. into Prague, Golden Age of Augsburg, and three others, National Museum, Munich Foundation of Holy Ghost Hospital, Dancing Festival of Landsberg Burghers, Town-Hall, Landsberg.—Müller, 418; Land und Meer (1886), ii. 1103; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iii. 197, 198.

PILOTY, KARL VON, born in Munich, Oct. 1, 1826, died there, July 21, 1886. History painter, son of and first instructed by the lithographer, Ferdinand Piloty, then pupil of Munich Academy under Schnorr, and later under his brother-in-law, Karl Schorn. In 1847 he visited Venice, painted genre pictures, and at Leipsic (1849) many portraits, then visited Dresden, where Velasquez became his ideal; went in 1852 to Antwerp and Paris, and thenceforth entered upon the path of colouristic realism to which he owed his great renown. In 1856 he became professor at the Munich Academy; went in 1856 to Paris and twice to Rome to make studies for his Nero on the Ruins of Rome. From 1874, director of Munich Academy. Works: Bathing Girls (1848); Dying Mother (1849); The Nurse (1853); Foundation of the Catholic League (1854), Maximilianeum, Munich; Seni beside Wallenstein's Body (1855), New Pinakothek, ib.; Tilly before battle on White Mountain; Scene after Murder of Wallenstein (1858), Mrs. W. H. Aspinwall, New York; Nero on the Ruins of Rome (1861), National Museum, Pesth; Wallenstein's Entry into Eger; Galileo in Prison, Cologne Museum; Entry of Godfrey de Bouillon into Jerusalem (1862), Maximilianeum, Munich; Columbus discovering Land (1866), Schack Gallery, ib.; Procession of Crusaders in Jerusalem; Death of Cæsar (1867), Colonel D. H. McAlpin, New York; Abbess of Frauen-Chiemsee defending her Convent (1868), Königsberg Museum; Mary Stuart listening to her Sentence (1869); The Winter King receiving News of Battle on White Mountain (1870); Dauphin Louis XVII. at Master Simon's (1871); Triumph of Germanicus (1873), New Pinakothek, Munich; Henry VIII. condemning Anna Boleyn (1874), Jacob H. Shiff, New York; Après vous, Monsieur! John Hoey, ib.; Sick Mother, Mrs. J. G. Fell, Philadelphia; Elizabeth of Bohemia, H. Probasco, Cincinnati; Last of the Girondists, G. A. Drummond, Baltimore; History of Munich (1880), City Hall, Munich; Wise and Foolish Virgins (1882); Under the Arena (1883); Council of Three in Venice (1884); Death of Alexander the Great (1886), National Gallery, Berlin. Frescos: Foundation of Kloster Ettak, do. of Ingolstadt University, Minstrels' Contest at the Wartburg (1865, seq.), Maximilianeum, Munich.—Art Journal (1865), 297; Athenæum (1886), ii. 122; Gartenlaube (1880), 648; (1886), 565; Illustr. Zeitg. (1874), i. 247; (1884), i. 292; (1886), ii. 122; Kunst-Chronik, iv. 71; xvii. 10; xx. 125, 681; Kunst f. Alle, i. 327; La Ilustracion (1879), ii. 106; Land und Meer (1870), i. 130; N. illustr. Zeitg. (1886), ii. 730; Pecht, iii. 202; Regnet, ii. 77; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 159; Westermann's Monatshefte, lii. 115; Zeitschr. f. b. K., v. 121; vi. 146, 307; xii. (Mittheilungen, v. 23); xix.