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 adjunct professor, 1679; professor, 1681; painter to the king, and was employed in the Tuileries in 1683-84. Works: Christ with Disciples in the Boat, Translation of Hercules (1673); Descending of the Holy Ghost (1676), Saint-Sulpice, Paris; St. Paul in Prison, Calling of St. John and St. James, Hercules and Juno, (1699); Apollo and the Muses, St. Charles receiving the Viaticum, Conversion of St. Augustine (1704). In the Uffizi, Florence, are ascribed to him two Storms at Sea, which are probably by his father, by whom are also two similar marine pieces in the Bamberg Gallery, and his own portrait in the former.—Bellier, ii. 285; Jal, 977; Mémoires inédits, i. 350.

PLATTNER, FRANZ, born at Zirl, Tyrol, in 1826. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, then in Rome of Cornelius, to whose style and traditions he adhered in all his works, which treat almost exclusively religious subjects. Works: Veleda, a German Prophetess, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck. In fresco: Adoration of Shepherds, Resurrection, All Saints' Parish Church, Zirl; Last Judgment, Resurrection, etc. (1863-73), Chapel in Cemetery, Innsbruck; others in Theological Seminary (1884), and University Church (1885), ib.; Legend of St. Martin, Dornbirn, Vorarlberg.—Wurzbach, xxii. 407.

PLATZER, JOHANN GEORG, born at Eppan, Tyrol, in 1702, died at St. Michael, ib., in 1760. German school; history and genre painter, son of Johann Victor Platzer (1665-1708, flourished many years in Vienna), pupil of his stepfather Rössler, then studied at Passau, and in 1721 went to Vienna, where he worked conjointly with Franz Christopher Janneck. Seems to have lived also at Breslau and Glogau, where many of his paintings are to be found. Works: Tower of Babel; Destruction of Jerusalem; Crœsus and Solon, Curius Dentatus and the Samnites, Mercury and Herse, Ariadne and Bacchus, Dresden Gallery; do., and Wedding Feast of Pirithous and Deidamia, Cassel Gallery; Assemblage in a Garden (2), Prague Gallery; Men and Women at Table, Card-Players, Vienna Museum; Two pictures, Innsbruck Museum.—Wurzbach, xxii. 410.

PLATZER, JOSEF, born in Prague in 1752, died in Vienna in 1810. Architecture painter, son of the sculptor Ignatz Platzer, the elder, pupil in Prague of Franz Wolf; went to Vienna, where Maria Theresa and Joseph II. patronized him; under Leopold II. became court-painter and member of the Academy. Works: Julius Sabinus in Prison, Tomb with Octavius Cæsar finding Antony and Cleopatra (1820, figures by Füger), Museum, Vienna; Cimon in Prison, Rape of Helen, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Hercules leading Admetus to Alcestis; Cleopatra beside the Body of Antony (1802); Murder of Semiramis, Prague Gallery.—Wurzbach, xxii. 411.

PLAUTIUS, MARCUS, painter, probably Greek. Decorated Temple of Juno at Ardea with paintings at very early period of Roman history.—Pliny,xxxv. 37 [115]; Brunn, ii. 303.

PLEYSIER, ARY, born at Naardingen, April 16, 1809. Marine painter, self-taught during numerous voyages on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. His pictures, distinguished for transparency of the waves and the details of ships, are mostly in private collections in England, Holland, and France. View on Coast of Flanders, Bruges Museum.—Müller, 421.

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PLOCKHORST, BERNHARD, born at Brunswick, March 2, 1825. History and portrait painter, pupil in Munich of Piloty and in Paris (1851) of Couture; visited Holland and Belgium in 1854, afterwards Italy, especially Venice, settled in Leipsic, and later in Berlin, whither he returned after having been professor at the Weimar Art