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he has furnished illustrations for Harper's Magazine, and has had the direction of the Art Department of Harper's publishing-house. Works: Salem (1876); November (1877); Gravesend Bay (1878); Old Orchard—Long Island (1884).


PARTHENON, Sanford R. Gifford, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas, H. 2 ft. 4 in. × 4 ft 4 in. View looking south from the Acropolis over the head of the Saronic Gulf; at the left, the Parthenon; at the right, the Erechtheum. Painted in 1880.


PARTON, ARTHUR, born at Hudson, N. Y., March 26, 1842. Landscape painter, pupil of W. T. Richards, of Philadelphia. Visited Paris and London in 1870, and sketched in Scotland the following summer. Elected an A.N.A. in 1873; N.A. in 1884. Studio in New York. Works: On the Road to Mount Marcy (1874), Charles Farwell, Chicago; Mountain Brook (1875), A. T. Stewart Collection, New York; Stirling Castle, Solitude (1876); November (Lord Moncke); Sycamores in Old Shokan (Amherst Collection); Delaware River, near Milford (1879); Buttonball Trees on the Housatonic (1880); Night-fall, Old Home in the Catskills (1881); Sycamores by the River-*side (1882); River Marsh (1883); Morning Ride, Passing Shower, Pine Wood (1884); Winter Morning, June Day in the Catskills, In the Gloaming (1885); Midday, Veteran of the Woods (1886).


PARTON, ERNEST, born at Hudson, N. Y., in 1845. Landscape painter, pupil in New York of his brother, Arthur Parton; visited England in 1873, and has since lived in London; was in New York in 1884-86. Has made sketching tours in Italy and in Switzerland. Exhibits at Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Morning Mist (1873); Papa's Luncheon (1875); Placid Stream (1876); Sunny September, High Hall Garden (1877); Silent Pool, Reflections, Au bord de l'eau (1878); Waning of the Year, Midday (1879); Silver and Gold (1882); Old River-side Tree, Falling Leaves and Fading Trees, Banks of the Llugwy (1883); Where Memory Dwells, Vale of Light (1884); Streatley-on-Thames (1885); Last of October (1886).


PASIAS, painter, Sicyonic school, pupil of Erigonus, about B.C. 220. He was brother of the sculptor Ægineta.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [145].


PASINELLI, LORENZO, born in Bologna in 1629, died there in 1700. Bolognese school; pupil of Simone Cantarini and of Flaminio Torre; afterwards studied in Vienna works of Paolo Veronese, and imitated his style, though not servilely. After painting in Rome, where he studied the designs of Raphael, he returned to Bologna and taught at the same time with Cignani, though he never attained the reputation of that artist. Works: Miracle of St. Antonio, S. Petronius, Bologna; Apparition of Christ, and Entry into Jerusalem (1657), Church of Public Cemetery, ib.; Madonna and St. Joseph, Scalzi, ib.; Martyrdom of St. Catharine, St. Margaret, Pinacoteca, ib.; The Magdalen (1680), St. Mary, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Lanzi, iii. 142; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Gualandi, 9, 14, 110.



PASINI, ALBERTO, born at Busseto, near Parma; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Eugenio Ciceri, of E. Isabey, and Théodore Rousseau; paints chiefly subjects taken from Turkey, Arabia, and Persia, where he lived several years. His treatment is broad, the light effects in his pictures are often peculiar, and the aërial perspective especially fine. Honorary professor at Parma and Turin Academies. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1859; 2d class, 1863, 1864; L. of Honour, 1868; Officer, 1878. Works: Shah of Persia travelling through his Country; Caravan in the Desert. Florence Acad-