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PIIEYER 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), Olden- burg Gallery. C. & C., N. Italy, i. 271; Burckhardt, 602; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., i. 553. PREYER, JOHANN WILHELM, born at Rheydt, near Diisseldorf, July 19, 1803. Still-life painter, of great excellence, pupil of Diisseldorf Academy in 1822-27 ; vis- ited 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 set- tled in Diisseldorf. Most of his pictures are in America. Works : Spring Flowers (1831), Fruit-Pieces (1832, 1833, 1838, 1846), Wild Flowers (1857), National Gal- lery, Berlin ; Fruit-Piece (1855), Raczynski Gallery, ib. ; do. (4, 1843, 1847, 1850, 1851), Flower-Piece (1849), Still-Life (1848), Spar- rows' Breakfast (1852), Raveno Gallery, ib. ; Still-Life (1834), KOnigsberg Museum ; Fruit-Piece (1851), Leipsic Museum ; Still- life in Bock Cellar at Munich, New Pinako- thek, Munich ; Still-Life (1859), W. T. Wal- ters, Balti- more. His son Paul paints genre and still-life, his daughter Emilie also still-life. Jordan (1885), ii. 173; Miiller, 425. PRIEUR, ROMAIN tiTIENNE GA- BRIEL, born at La Ferte-Gaucher (Seine- et-Marne), Aug. 21, 1806, died in 1880. Landscape painter, pupil of Victor Bertin and of the ficole des Beaux Arts ; won grand prix de Rome in 1883. Medals : 3d class, 1842 ; 2d class, 1845. Works : Hay- making, View at Villette (1833) ; Forest of '/?//? Itll Fontainebleau (1836) ; Jacob discovering the Wells, View near Rome (1842) ; Slaves' Tower, Brook at Bougival, Mill of St. Ouen (1845) ; Approaching Storm, Woods of Sa- tory (1846); etc. Bellier, ii. 316 ; Larousse. PRIMATICCIO, FRANCESCO, bom in Bologna in 1504, died in Paris in 1570. Bolognese school ; pupil of Innocenzo da Imola and of Bagnacav allo ; went in 1525 to Mantua and as- sisted Giulio Ro- mano in the Pa- lazzo del To and elsewhere. In 1531 he went, on the invitation of Francis I., to France, where he worked under Rosso in the decoration of the Chateau at Fontaiue- bleau. He is said to have executed the first stucco work and the first frescos of any ac- count in France. In 1540 he was sent by the King to Italy to collect antiques and works of art, but he was recalled the follow- ing 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 reve- nue 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, Niccolo dell' Abbate. Only a few of his frescos at Fontainebleau are left, the most important series, illustrating the Odys- sey, having been destroyed in 1738, when the Gallery of Ulysses was pulled down. Primaticcio also decorated the Chateaux 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 (por- trait of Diana of Poitiers), Musee de Cluny ; 478