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afterwards was a schoolmaster at Shrews- bury. He sketched in water-colours the churches and antiquities of the county with much knowledge and correctness, and was for many years a well-known contributor of drawings and antiquarian papers to the 1 Gentleman's Magazine.' He died at Shrewsbury, May 8, 1833.

PARKES, James, draftsman. Son of the above, Practised as a drawing-master at Shrewsbury. He etched 12 views of monastic and other remains in Shropshire, which were published in 1829. Died March 31, 1828, aged 34.

PARKINSON, Thomas, portrait and subject painter. He practised in the last quarter of the 18th century, and painted portraits and theatrical groups. He exhi- bited at the Academy, in 1775, a good group from ' She Stoops to Conquer/ in the manner of Zoffany (mezzo-tinted by R. Laurie), followed by a scene from l Cymon,' 1775, a scene from the ' Duenna,' 1776. He was thenceforth chiefly employed in portrait- ure, continuing an exhibitor up to 1789.

PARMENTIER, Jambs, history and portrait painter. Born in France, 1658. Was the nephew and pupil of Sebastian Bourdon. He came to England in 1676 and was employed by La Fosse to assist in his works at Montague House. William III. sent him to Holland to ornament his palace at Loo. But he quarrelled with the surveyor, and on his return, not finding employment in London, he went into York- shire, where he lived several years, painting portraits and some historical works, an altar-piece at Hull, and another at St. Peters Church, Leeds. The staircase at Worksop is by him, and at Painters' Hall, London, is his picture of ' Diana and En- dymion.' On the death of old Laguerre in 1721, he hoped to find more encouragement, and then settled in London, where he died, in indifferent circumstances, December 2, 1730. and was buried at St. Paul's, Co vent Garden.

PARR,Remi, engraver. Born at Roches- ter in 1723. Learnt the rudiments of his art in London, and then studied on the con- tinent. He engraved portraits and book plates; horses after Seymour, Wootton, and Tillemans, and many humorous plates, with several works of an architectural character; ' .Views of the remarkable Buildings in Flo- rence,' 1750; ' Views of St. Paul's; ' * View of London from under the Arch of West- minster Bridge/ 1757, and a * South-east View from the Bridge.

PARRIS, Edmund Thomas, portrait and history painter. Was born June 4, 1793, and first exhibited at the Royal Aca- demy in 1816. He painted the gigantic panorama of London at the Coliseum, m the Regent's Park, which occupied him from .1825 to 1829, and which was afterwards

removed to New York. He was appointed historical painter to (jueen Adelaide m 1838. He painted a portrait of Queen Victoria, and in 1839 her Coronation, from both of which engravings have been published. In 1843 he took a prize for his cartoon of ' Joseph of Arimathea converting the Jews,' at the competitive exhibition at Guildhall. From 1853 to 1856 he was employed in restoring the pictures of Sir James Thornhill in the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, a work of great labour and difficulty. He died November 9, 1873.

• PARRY, William, A.R.A., portrait painter. He was born in London, 1742. Son of the celebrated blind harper. Studied at St. Martin's Lane Academy and the Duke of Richmond's gallery. He gained premiums at the Society of Arts in 1760, and was one of the first students in the Royal Academy schools. He also became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and making good use of his advantages { was looked upon as of considerable promise. In 1766 he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. By the assistance of Sir W. W. Wynne he went in 1770 to Italy, and returned to London in 1775, when he married. In the following year he exhi- bited full and half-length portraits at. the Royal Academy, and was elected an asso- ciate. He continued to exhibit portraits in 1777-78 and 1779. but did not meet with the employment he noped, and, involved in annoyances by the imprudence of his wife's brother, he retired to Wales, where his wife dying, twelve months after he revisited Rome. He was again, and for the last time, an exhibitor at the Academy in 1788. He had acquired a small fortune with his wife, and finding sufficient employment, remained at Rome till his health failing he set off home, and arrived in London only in time to die, February 13. 1791. He etched a benefit ticket for his blind father, whose likeness it bears.

PARS, William, A.R.A.. portrait painter. Was the son of a cnaser, and born in London in 1742. He studied in the St Martin's Lane School, and also in the Duke of Richmond's gallery. He ex- hibited at the Society of Artists in 1761, a portrait and miniatures, and was in 1763 a member of the Free Society of Artists, and in the following year obtained the Society of Arts' medal for a historical paint- ing. He was, in June of the same year, selected by the Dilettanti Society to accom- pany as draftsman Dr. Chandler and Mr. Revett to Greece, and was absent till Novem- ber, 1766. On his return he accompanied Lord Palmerston to the Continent, ana made drawings at Rome, but chiefly in Switzer- land and the Tyrol. In 1770 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1774 was chosen by the Dilettanti Society
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