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PIIILOGHAKES more successful as a portrait painter, though he does not occupy high rank as a colourist. Among his sitters were the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Duke of Sussex, Marchioness of Stafford, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Egre- mont, Lord Byron, Hallam, Sou they, Cole- ridge, Crabbe, Faraday, and many other notabilities. Works : Wood Nymph, Sir David Wilkie, National Gallery ; Sir N. Tin- dal, Lord Tlmrlow, Blake, Faraday, Sir F. Burdett, Byron, Chantrey, Dibdin, National Portrait Gallery, London. His son, Henry Wyndham Phillips (1820-68), was also a successful portrait painter. Redgrave ; F. do Conches, 373 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole auglaise ; Sandby, i. 331. PHILOCHARES, Greek painter, supposed to have been identical with the brother of -ffischines (389-31-4 B.C.), of whom Demos- thenes speaks contemptuously (De Fals. Legat., 237), but whom Ulpian ranks with the greatest painters (Ad. Demos., 380). Pliny says (xxxv. 10 [27]) that Augustus consecrated two of his pictures, one of which represented an old man and his son, on the wall of the Curia and iu the Comi- tium, Rome. Bruun, ii. 257. PHILOCLES, a very early Egyptian painter, date unknown. Pliny says (xxxv. 5 [1C]) that the invention of line drawing has been assigned both to him and to Cle- anthes of Corinth. PHILOMELA AND PROCNE, William ' Adolphe Bouguereau, Luxembourg Muse- um ; canvas, oval, H. 5 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. Fig- ures draped, three-quarters length, one with a lyre, the other with a tambourine. Paint- ed in 1801. PHILOSOPHER IN MEDITATION, Rembrandt, Louvre, Paris ; wood, H. 11 in. x 1 ft. 1 in. ; signed, dated 1G33. A bearded old man, in a fur-trimmed robe, seated in contemplation before an open window, in a vaulted apartment, beside a table on which are books and an inkstand ; at right, a wom- an ascending a winding staircase ; in fore- ground, at right, another woman tending a fire. This, and the following picture, sold at the sale of Comte de Vence (1750), 3,000 livres ; sale of Due deChoiseul(1772), 14,000 livres; sale of M. Randon de Boisset (1777), 10,900 livres ; sale of Comte de Vaudreuil (1784), 13,000 livres. Engraved by Surugue (1754) ; R. Houston ; Herstel ; W. Baillie ; M. Bisi, with changes ; Wattelet ; J. Longhi. Musee francais ; Filhol, viii. PI. 575 , Vos- maer, 35, 431 ; Smith, vii. 66. By Bembrandt, Louvre ; wood, H. 11 in. x 1 ft. 1 in. An old man, in dark robe and velvet cap, seated iu meditation before a Philosophers, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence. closed window, in a vaulted room, beside a table on which are books and a globe ; at left, a winding stairway. History and en- gravers same as preceding. Painted in 1633. Filhol, iv. PI. 261 ; Muse~e fran 5 ais ; Vosmaer, 35, 431 ; Smith, vii. 66. PHILOSOPHERS, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; wood, H. 5 ft. x 4 ft. 2 in. Fig- ures half-length, around a table. At right, Hugo Grotius, his dog with his paws on his knee ; in centre, Justus Lipsius, with an open book before him ; next, Philip Rubens, with a pen in his hand ; behind the last, at left, the painter himself, standing. En- 4.%