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 *turned to Fez, and to have died there. Works: Virgin and Saints, Madrid Museum; Christ blessing the World, The Virgin in Prayer, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Stirling, i. 263; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Madrazo, 518.

PRAIRIE DE LACKEN, Rubens, Buckingham Palace; wood, H. 2 ft. 10 in. × 4 ft. 1 in. A hilly landscape, with a pool of water, and figures of peasants and cattle. One of the master's finest landscapes. Purchased for George IV. at Agnard sale, Paris. Engraved by Van Uden; J. Neefs.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 3; Smith, ii. 237.

PRATT, MATTHEW, born in Philadelphia in 1734, died there in 1805. Portrait painter, pupil of West in London in 1764-68. He was for many years a sign painter in Philadelphia before he seriously turned his attention to art. In England he painted the portraits of the Duchess of Manchester, Duke of Portland, and Governor Hamilton; in America, among others, Lieutenant-Governor Cadwallader Colden, for the New York Chamber of Commerce in 1772.

PREISLER, DANIEL, born in Prague, March 8, 1627, died in Nuremberg, June 19, 1665. German school; history and portrait painter, settled in Nuremberg in 1654, and became master of the guild there. Works: Death of Abel, Female Portrait, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Sending of the Holy Ghost, Hospital Church, ib.; Ascension, Schlosskirche, ib.; Christ and the Children, Vienna Museum; Male Portrait (1663), Brunswick Gallery.—Huber, ii. 64; Rettberg, 193.

PRELL, HERMANN, born at Leipsic, April 29, 1854. Genre painter, pupil of Dresden and of Berlin Academies under Grosse and Gussow respectively, studied in Rome in 1880-81, and then was commissioned to decorate the Banquet Hall in the House of Architects at Berlin. Works: The Last Chase (1878); Girl's Head (1883). In fresco: Justice and Valour, Incident in Life of Emperor Henry IV. (1883), City Hall, Worms; Epochs of Architecture (11 pictures, 1882), House of Architects, Berlin.—Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 28; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xviii. 367, 401; xx. 149; Allgem. K. C., ix. 542.

PRELLER, FRIEDRICH (JOHANN CHRISTIAN ERNST), the elder, born in Eisenach, April 25, 1804, died in Weimar, April 23, 1878. Landscape painter, pupil of Weimar Art-School under Kunschtmeyer, studied in Dresden in 1820, returned following year to Weimar, where he entered into friendly relations with Goethe, and spent the next two summers again in Dresden, studying after Ruysdael and Potter, then in 1823-25 under Van Bree at Antwerp Academy, two years at Milan Academy, and in 1827-31 in Rome, where he attached himself especially to Koch. Returning to Weimar, he became professor, court painter, and honorary member of Dresden Academy; visited Italy again in 1859-61 and 1875. Works: Six Thuringian Landscapes with historical figures, Grand Ducal Palace, Weimar; Scenes from Oberon (1835-37), Wieland Room, ib.; 7 Scenes from Odyssey (1834-36), Dr. Härtel, Leipsic; Norwegian Coast (1850), Heroic Landscape (1874), Dresden Gallery; do., and Styrian Landscape (1853), National Gallery, Berlin; Nausicaa and Ulysses in Isle of the Phæacians (1864), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; View in Sabine Mountains with Good Samaritan, Leipsic Museum; Leucothea appearing to Ulysses, Calypso taking Farewell of Ulysses, Schack Gallery, Munich; Bear-Trainer in Street of Antwerp (1824), Three Views in Norway (1840, 1846), Vultures in Bavarian Highlands (1856), Cycle of 16 scenes from Odyssey (1863-68, masterpiece), Weimar Museum; Cartoons for do., Leipsic Museum.—Allgem. Zeitg. (1878), No. 141; Art Journal (1881), 289; Cotta's