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 Michelangelo's designs, he never approached Sebastian as a colourist. His portraits are superior to his compositions. Among his works are: Holy Family, Madrid Museum; do., Old Pinakothek, Munich; Visitation, SS. Annunziata, Florence; Madonna and Saints, Visitation, Louvre; Portrait of Andrea del Sarto, Berlin Museum; Supper at Emmaus, Florence Academy; Joseph presenting his Father to Pharaoh, Joseph accused by Potiphar, Venus kissed by Love, Birth of St. John Baptist, and portraits, Uffizi, Florence; Portrait of a Boy, National Gallery, London; others in the Louvre, Cassel and Oldenburg Galleries, Vienna Museum (3), Palazzo Pitti, Florence.—Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xi. 29; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 206.

POOLE, PAUL FALCONER, born at Bristol in 1810, died in London, Sept. 22, 1879. History and genre painter; exhibited first picture, The Well—a Scene in Naples, at Royal Academy in 1830; elected an A.R.A. in 1846 and R.A. in 1861. Works: Herman and Dorothea at the Fountain (1840); Solomon Eagle preaching during the Plague in London (1843); Beleaguered Moors (1844); Arletta of Falaise (1848); The Tempest (1849); Goths in Italy (1851); Seventh Day of the Decameron (1855); Escape of Glaucus and Ione (1860); Lighting the Beacon on the Appearance of the Spanish Armada (1864); Vision of Ezekiel (1875), National Gallery.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Am. Art Rev. (1879), 91; Art Journal (1859), 41; Sandby, ii. 311.

POORE, HENRY R., born in Newark, N. J., in 1858. Landscape painter, pupil of the National Academy (1876), of the Pennsylvania Academy, of Peter Moran (1877), and of Luminais in Paris (1883). Studio in Philadelphia. Works: Burro Train leaving the Pueblo of Taos (1882); March Hill-*side, Baying Hounds (1884), T. B. Clarke, New York; Ulysses feigning Madness (1884); After a Shower—Pincian Hill, Rome (1886).

POORTER, WILLEM DE, born at Haarlem, flourished there in 1635-43, died after 1645. Dutch school; history and still-life painter, pupil of Rembrandt, probably at Leyden in 1627-30. His colouring is powerful and the execution careful; painted also interiors. Works: Solomon offering to the Strange Gods, Amsterdam Museum; do. (1643), Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Taking of Samson, Berlin Museum; Ahasuerus and Esther (1645), Woman taken in Adultery, Simon with Infant Christ in the Temple, Dresden Gallery; Raising of Lazarus, Old Pinakothek, Munich; The Offering, Queen of Sheba before Solomon (?), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Mercury and Proserpine, Allegory of Peace (1643), Copenhagen Gallery; Interior, Aremberg Gallery, Brussels; Skull, Crown, Sceptre, and Arms, Brunswick Gallery; Companion-*piece (1630 or 1636), Rotterdam Museum; Allegorical Figure of Emperor Matthias, Wörlitz Gallery.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 378; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 436; Vosmaer, Rembrandt, 63.

POPELIN-DUCARRE, CLAUDIUS MARCEL, born in Paris; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Ary Scheffer and of Picot. Medal, 1865; L. of Honour, 1869. Works: Dante reading his Poem to Giotto (1852); St. Jerome (1853); Robert Estienne, famous printer of 16th Century, surrounded by Savants aiding him (1857); Calvin preaching before Duchess of Ferrara, Guillaume Budée, founder of Collège de France, studying Greek (1859); Dante re-entering Florence after Battle of Campaldino (1861); Julius Cæsar (1864); Renaissance of Literature (1865); Truth, Dante Alighieri, France (1867).—Bellier, ii. 298.

PORCELLIS (Parcelles, Percellis), JAN, born in Ghent about 1597 (?), died probably at Soeterwoude, near Leyden, before