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 own are often confounded. His canvases are to be seen in Bergamo, Milan, Venice, Berlin, and other places. Among the best are: Flight into Egypt, Venice Academy; Marriage of St. Catharine, S. Giobbe, Venice; Annunciation, S. M. del Mesco, Ceneda; Madonna, National Gallery, London; do. (1510), Dresden Museum; Madonna with Saints, SS. Lucia, Magdalen, and Catharine, Marriage of St. Catharine, Berlin Museum; John Baptist in the Desert (1521), Oldenburg Gallery.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 271; Burckhardt, 602; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 553.

PREYER, JOHANN WILHELM, born at Rheydt, near Düsseldorf, July 19, 1803. Still-life painter, of great excellence, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy in 1822-27; visited Holland in 1835, Munich in 1837 and 1842, Venice, Milan, and Switzerland in 1840, Tyrol and Venice in 1843, and the private galleries in Berlin in 1848, then settled in Düsseldorf. Most of his pictures are in America. Works: Spring Flowers (1831), Fruit-Pieces (1832, 1833, 1838, 1846), Wild Flowers (1857), National Gallery, Berlin; Fruit-Piece (1855), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; do. (4, 1843, 1847, 1850, 1851), Flower-Piece (1849), Still-Life (1848), Sparrows' Breakfast (1852), Ravené Gallery, ib.; Still-Life (1834), Königsberg Museum; Fruit-Piece (1851), Leipsic Museum; Still-life in Bock Cellar at Munich, New Pinakothek, Munich; Still-Life (1859), W. T. Walters, Baltimore. His son Paul paints genre and still-life, his daughter Emilie also still-life.—Jordan (1885), ii. 173; Müller, 425.

PRIEUR, ROMAIN ÉTIENNE GABRIEL, born at La Ferté-Gaucher (Seine-et-Marne), Aug. 21, 1806, died in 1880. Landscape painter, pupil of Victor Bertin and of the École des Beaux Arts; won grand prix de Rome in 1883. Medals: 3d class, 1842; 2d class, 1845. Works: Haymaking, View at Villette (1833); Forest of Fontainebleau (1836); Jacob discovering the Wells, View near Rome (1842); Slaves' Tower, Brook at Bougival, Mill of St. Ouen (1845); Approaching Storm, Woods of Satory (1846); etc.—Bellier, ii. 316; Larousse.

PRIMATICCIO, FRANCESCO, born in Bologna in 1504, died in Paris in 1570. Bolognese school; pupil of Innocenzo da Imola and of Bagnacavallo; went in 1525 to Mantua and assisted Giulio Romano in the Palazzo del Tè and elsewhere. In 1531 he went, on the invitation of Francis I., to France, where he worked under Rosso in the decoration of the Château at Fontainebleau. He is said to have executed the first stucco work and the first frescos of any account in France. In 1540 he was sent by the King to Italy to collect antiques and works of art, but he was recalled the following year to finish the works left by Rosso at his death. His efforts were so satisfactory that Francis made him (1544) abbot of St. Martin de Troyes, which gave him a revenue of 8,000 crowns. After the King's death he continued in the royal service under Henry II., Francis II., and Charles IX., and executed many works with the aid of his assistant, Niccolò dell' Abbate. Only a few of his frescos at Fontainebleau are left, the most important series, illustrating the Odyssey, having been destroyed in 1738, when the Gallery of Ulysses was pulled down. Primaticcio also decorated the Châteaux of Chantilly and of Beauregard, the pavilion of Meudon, and other buildings with mural paintings. Among his pictures in oil, which are rare and none certain, are: Three Graces, Czernin Gallery, Vienna; Continence of Scipio, Louvre; Lady of Court of Francis II. at her Toilette, Venus and Cupid (portrait of Diana of Poitiers), Musée de Cluny;