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the Woman taken in Adultery, Museum, Vienna; The Magdalen, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. There are also many of his pictures in the churches of Venice and of Padua. His daughter, Chiara, was a good portrait painter.—Charles Blanc, École vénitienne; Burckhardt, 751.

PAELINCK, JOSEPH, born at Oostacker, near Ghent, March 20, 1781, died in Brussels, June 19, 1839. History and portrait painter, pupil of Ghent Academy, and in Paris of David; after his return was for a short time professor at the Ghent Academy, then went to Rome, where he remained five years; became court-*painter and member of the Institute of the Netherlands in 1815, and professor at the Brussels Academy on its erection. First prize of Ghent Academy in 1817, grand prize in 1820; Orders of Lion and of Leopold; Member of Antwerp and Brussels Academies. Works: Judgment of Paris (1804), Ghent Museum; Rome under Augustus, Quirinal; Finding of the Cross, St. Michael's, Ghent; Anthia (1820), Juno (1832), Portrait of Antonius Sanderus (1825), do. of Van Dyck (copy after Van Dyck in the Louvre), Museum, ib.; Adoration of the Shepherds, La Trappe, near Antwerp; Psyche's Toilet (1823), Amsterdam Museum; Abdication of Charles V. (1836).—Alvin, Éloge funèbre de J. P. (Brussels, 1839); Immerzeel, ii. 290; Raczynski, iii. 439.

PAGANI, GREGORI, born at Florence in 1558, died in 1605. Florentine school; history painter, son of Francesco Pagani (1531-61, an artist of great promise and successful imitator of Caravaggio and Michelangelo), pupil of Santo di Titi, but more influenced by Cigoli, his fellow-scholar, whose style he adopted, and thence was often praised as a second Cigoli. His most celebrated work, Finding of the Cross, in the church of the Carmelites, was destroyed with that edifice by fire in 1771; it has been engraved. Other works: Madonna with Saints (1595), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Tobias restoring his Father's Sight (1604), Artist's portrait, Uffizi, Florence; Male portrait, Palazzo Pitti, ib.; frescos in S. Maria Novella, and S. Maria del Fiore, ib.—Lanzi (Roscoe), i. 214; Nagler, x. 459.

PAGE, WILLIAM, born at Albany, N.Y., Jan. 23, 1811, died at Tottenville, Staten Island, Oct. 1, 1885. Portrait and history painter, pupil of Herring, portrait painter in New York, for one year; later of Professor Morse, and of the National Academy, where he received a silver medal for drawings from the antique. Elected N.A. in 1836; lived in Rome and Florence in 1849-60; President of the National Academy in 1871-73. In 1874 he visited Germany to study the Kesselstadt death-mask of Shakespeare, and thus obtained material for several portraits which he painted after his return. Page held very peculiar theories of colour, derived from study of the old masters. Works: Holy Family, Boston Athenæum; Infancy of Henry IV.; Wife's Last Visit to her Condemned Husband; Venus (1859), W. Bullard, Boston; Infant Bacchus; Moses and Aaron on Mount Horeb; Mother and Child, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia; The Young Merchants, Pennsylvania Academy, ib.; Flight into Egypt; Head of Christ (1870); Ruth and Naomi, Historical Society, New York; Farragut at Battle of Mobile, Emperor of Russia; Antique Timbrel-Player (1871); Shakespeare (1874); do. from German Death Mask (1878); Cupid (1880). Portraits: Governor Marcy, City Hall, New York; John Quincy Adams, Faneuil Hall, Boston; Robert Minturn (1868); Governor