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POSE, (EDUARD) WILHELM, born in Düsseldorf, July 9, 1812, died in Frankfort, March 14, 1878. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow; went with Andreas Achenbach to Munich, in 1836 to Frankfort, visited Belgium and Paris, spent three years in Italy, and in 1842 settled in Frankfort. Works: Burg Eltz (1836), View on Chiem Lake (1837), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Castle in Tyrol; Königssee; Falls of Tivoli; Theatre at Taormina, Prague Gallery; Temples at Pæstum; View in Homburg Forest; Mountain Lake (1834), National Gallery, Berlin; View in Roman Campagna (1855), Düsseldorf Gallery.—Jordan (1885), ii. 170; Kaulen, 126; Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 480; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 707; Nagler, Mon., ii.; Passavant, 35; Wiegmann, 353.

POST, FRANS, born at Leyden in 1612 (?), died at Haarlem, buried Feb. 16, 1680. Dutch school; landscape painter, especially of views of Dutch colonies in Brazil, which he visited in 1637, probably through mediation of his brother Pieter, an architect who accompanied Prince John Maurice of Nassau to South America; returned to Haarlem in 1644, and entered the guild in 1646. Works: Portrait of Johan Maurits of Nassau, Governor of Brazil (1679), View in Brazil, Amsterdam Museum; Views in West Indies (2, 1649), Schleissheim Gallery; do., Schwerin Gallery; Cavalry Skirmish, Schönborn Gallery, Vienna.—Kramm, v. 1303; Van der Willigen, 247; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 352.

POT, HENDRIK GERRITSZEN, born in Haarlem in 1600, died in 1656. Dutch school; history and portrait painter; lived several years in England, where, in 1632, he painted Charles I. From 1633 to 1639 lieutenant of the archers' guild at Haarlem; painted in 1633 by Frans Hals in picture at Museum there. Works: Scene from a Play, Hampton Court Palace; Ladies and Gentlemen at Cards (attributed to Le Ducq), Sir Richard Wallace, London; Portrait of Charles I. (1632), Louvre, Paris; Male Portrait, Rothan Gallery, ib.; Triumph of William of Orange, Haarlem Museum; Militia-*piece; Judith with the Head of Holofernes.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Bode, Studien, 157.

POTATO HARVEST, Jules Breton, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; canvas. Two Farm Women, gathering potatoes at dusk, in the Landes; one, standing, is holding a sack, into which the other, kneeling, is emptying a basket.—Art Treasures of America, i. 74.

By Jean François Millet, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; canvas, H. 1 ft. 9 in. × 2 ft. 1 in. Exposition universelle, 1867.

POTATO PLANTERS, Jean François Millet, private gallery. Peasants at work in a great plain at the edge of which a village is lost in the luminous horizon; a man is opening the ground with his hoe, while a woman casts in the seed-potatoes; a large apple-tree shades a donkey with a child asleep in its panier. Exhibition universelle (1867); sold to M. Soultzener; after varied adventures sold for 57,000 francs.—Sensier, 222.

POTTER, PAULUS, born at Enkhuysen, baptized Nov. 20, 1625, died in Amsterdam, buried Jan. 17, 1654. Dutch school; animal and landscape painter, son and pupil of Pieter Potter. Family settled at Amsterdam in 1631, and in the following year Paul went to study painting at Haarlem under Jacob de Weth the elder. His earliest known picture, in the Gallery at Gotha (1641 ?), and his etching of Le Vacher (1643), show the precocity of his talent, which attracted notice at Delft, where he was made a member of the Guild of St. Luke, Aug. 6, 1646, and at The Hague, where he resided from 1649 to May, 1652.