1869); Graham, Memoirs of P.; Jal, 997; Keane, Early Masters, 486; Mémoires inédits, i. 245, 315, 342; Colburn's Mag., cxii. 490; cxxxiv. 214; Penny Mag., xi. 161; Fine Arts Quarterly, i. 175, 263; iii. 105; Blackwood's Mag., ix. 23; London Mag., iv. 176; Eclectic Rev., xxxi. 214; Art Journal, v. 9, 46; Fortnightly Rev., xvii. 472; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 308; xi. (Mittheilungen, iv. 10); Mag. of Art (1885), 152.
POWELL, WILLIAM H., born in Ohio
in 1824, died in New York, Oct. 6, 1879.
Portrait and history painter, studied in
Italy and France. Associate of the National
Academy, New York. Works: Perry's Victory
on Lake Erie, Capitol, Washington;
Landing of the Pilgrims, Scott's Entry into
the City of Mexico (Mrs. M. O. Roberts,
New York); Discovery of the Mississippi,
Capitol, Washington. Portraits: General
McClellan, Major Anderson, City Hall, New
York; Albert Gallatin (1843), Erastus C.
Benedict, Historical Society, ib.; Washington
Irving; Lamartine; Alexandre Dumas.—Am.
Art. Rev. (1880), 47; Tuckerman,
458.
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POYNTER, EDWARD JOHN, born in
Paris, March 20, 1836.
History painter, son of
Ambrose Poynter, architect;
pupil in London
of Leigh's Art-School,
of W. C. T.
Dobson, and of the
Royal Academy, and in
Paris of M. Gleyre in
1856-59; in 1860 returned
to London, where he has since resided.
He became an A.R.A. in 1869, and
R.A. in 1876; was Slade professor of fine
arts at University College, London, from
1870 to 1875, when he was chosen director
of the art schools at South Kensington Museum.
He has done some fine decorative
work in mosaic in the Houses of Parliament
and in St. Paul's, and in fresco in St. Stephen's,
Dulwich. Works: The Syren, Egyptian
Sentinel (1864); Faithful unto Death
(1865); Offerings to Isis (1866); Israel in
Egypt (1867); The Catapult (1868); Proserpine
(1869); Andromeda (1870); Suppliant
to Venus, Feeding the Sacred Ibis
(1871); Perseus and Andromeda (1872);
Dragon of Wantley (1873); Rhodope (1874);
Festival, Golden Age (1875); Atalanta's
Race (1876); Fortune-Teller (1877); Jersey
Lily (Mrs. Langtry), Zenobia Captive (1878);
Nausicaa and her Maidens (1879); Venus
and Æsculapius (1880); Helen (1881); In
the Tepidarium (1882); Psyche, The Ides
of March (1883); Diadumené (1884); do.
(H. 7 ft. 1 in. × 4 ft. 2 in., 1885).—Art Journal
(1881), 26; (1885), 340; Athenæum
(1881), i. 271; (1886), i. 463; Portfolio
(1870), 1; (1877), 11; Univ. Mag. (1878),
ii. 24; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 371.
PRADILLA, FRANCISCO, born at Villanueva
de Gallego, Saragossa, in 1847. History
and genre painter, pupil of San Fernando
Academy, Madrid, then of Spanish
Academy in Rome, of which he was afterwards
director; has acquired reputation at
exhibitions of late years. Medal of honour,
Paris; L. of Honour, 1878. Medals: Vienna,
1882; 1st class, Munich, 1883. Works:
Strand of Vigo; The Elopement; Rape of
Sabine Women; Jeane la Folle following
her Husband's Coffin (1878); replica (1879);
Don Alfonso the Warrior, Don Alfonso the
Scholar, Procession in Venice (1879); Reading
on Balcony (1880); La Fiorella (1881);
Surrender of Granada (1883); Lackey Asleep
(1884).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 752; Kunst-Chronik,
xix. 616; D. Rundschau, xx. 467;
La Ilustracion (1879), i. 6; (1881), i. 27;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 318.
PRADO, BLAS DEL, born at Toledo
about 1540, died about 1600. Spanish
school; probably pupil of Francisco de
Commontes; became in 1591 second painter
to the chapter of the Cathedral of Toledo.
In 1593 sent by Philip II. to Sultan of Fez,
who had asked him for a good artist.
Prado painted some portraits for him, among
them his daughter, and returned home enriched
with gifts. He is said to have re-
