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POWELL, WILLIAM H., born in Ohio in 1824, died in New York, Oct. 6, 1879. Portrait and history painter, studied in Italy and France. Associate of the National Academy, New York. Works: Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, Capitol, Washington; Landing of the Pilgrims, Scott's Entry into the City of Mexico (Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York); Discovery of the Mississippi, Capitol, Washington. Portraits: General McClellan, Major Anderson, City Hall, New York; Albert Gallatin (1843), Erastus C. Benedict, Historical Society, ib.; Washington Irving; Lamartine; Alexandre Dumas.—Am. Art. Rev. (1880), 47; Tuckerman, 458.

POYNTER, EDWARD JOHN, born in Paris, March 20, 1836. History painter, son of Ambrose Poynter, architect; pupil in London of Leigh's Art-School, of W. C. T. Dobson, and of the Royal Academy, and in Paris of M. Gleyre in 1856-59; in 1860 returned to London, where he has since resided. He became an A.R.A. in 1869, and R.A. in 1876; was Slade professor of fine arts at University College, London, from 1870 to 1875, when he was chosen director of the art schools at South Kensington Museum. He has done some fine decorative work in mosaic in the Houses of Parliament and in St. Paul's, and in fresco in St. Stephen's, Dulwich. Works: The Syren, Egyptian Sentinel (1864); Faithful unto Death (1865); Offerings to Isis (1866); Israel in Egypt (1867); The Catapult (1868); Proserpine (1869); Andromeda (1870); Suppliant to Venus, Feeding the Sacred Ibis (1871); Perseus and Andromeda (1872); Dragon of Wantley (1873); Rhodope (1874); Festival, Golden Age (1875); Atalanta's Race (1876); Fortune-Teller (1877); Jersey Lily (Mrs. Langtry), Zenobia Captive (1878); Nausicaa and her Maidens (1879); Venus and Æsculapius (1880); Helen (1881); In the Tepidarium (1882); Psyche, The Ides of March (1883); Diadumené (1884); do. (H. 7 ft. 1 in. × 4 ft. 2 in., 1885).—Art Journal (1881), 26; (1885), 340; Athenæum (1881), i. 271; (1886), i. 463; Portfolio (1870), 1; (1877), 11; Univ. Mag. (1878), ii. 24; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 371.

PRADILLA, FRANCISCO, born at Villanueva de Gallego, Saragossa, in 1847. History and genre painter, pupil of San Fernando Academy, Madrid, then of Spanish Academy in Rome, of which he was afterwards director; has acquired reputation at exhibitions of late years. Medal of honour, Paris; L. of Honour, 1878. Medals: Vienna, 1882; 1st class, Munich, 1883. Works: Strand of Vigo; The Elopement; Rape of Sabine Women; Jeane la Folle following her Husband's Coffin (1878); replica (1879); Don Alfonso the Warrior, Don Alfonso the Scholar, Procession in Venice (1879); Reading on Balcony (1880); La Fiorella (1881); Surrender of Granada (1883); Lackey Asleep (1884).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 752; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 616; D. Rundschau, xx. 467; La Ilustracion (1879), i. 6; (1881), i. 27; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 318.

PRADO, BLAS DEL, born at Toledo about 1540, died about 1600. Spanish school; probably pupil of Francisco de Commontes; became in 1591 second painter to the chapter of the Cathedral of Toledo. In 1593 sent by Philip II. to Sultan of Fez, who had asked him for a good artist. Prado painted some portraits for him, among them his daughter, and returned home enriched with gifts. He is said to have re