335; London Times, Jan. 29, 1884, 5; Reber-Pecht, iii. 293.
PEACE, Sir Edwin Landseer, National Gallery,
London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 10 in. × 4 ft. 4
in. Coast scene, Dover harbour in distance;
goats and sheep browsing on cliff, a lamb
lying with its head in the muzzle of a dismounted
gun; near them, three bare-headed
children. Companion to War. Royal Academy,
1846. Engraved by T. L. Atkinson; Lumb
Stocks; J. Cousen.—Art Journal (1854), 65.
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Peace and War, Rubens, National Gallery, London.
PEACE AND WAR, David Cox, private
gallery, England. Harvest-field, with troops
marching towards the town of Lancaster.
Painted in 1846; belonged in 1870 to David
Price; Gillott sale (1872), 3,430 guineas.
By Rubens, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 6 ft. 6 in. × 9 ft. 9 in. Peace, a beautiful woman, nude, giving her breast to a child, is surrounded by Abundance, Wealth, and Happiness; while Minerva, emblematical of Wisdom, repels Mars and the Harpies. Painted for Charles I. in 1630, when Rubens was residing at that monarch's court as envoy for Spain. It passed to the Doria Collection, Genoa, from which purchased by Mr. Irvine (1802) for £1,100; sold in same year for £3,000 to Marquis of Stafford, who presented it in 1827 to National Gallery. Engraved by J. Heath.—Waagen, Treasures, i. 349; Smith, ii. 161; Sainsbury, Orig. Papers, 147.
PEACHUM, POLLY, Hogarth, National
Gallery, London; canvas, oval, H. 2 ft. 5
in. × 1 ft. 11 in. Portrait of Miss Fenton,
the original Polly Peachum in Gay's "Beggar's
Opera," afterwards Duchess of Bolton.
Figure life-size, seen to waist, in pale-green
silk bodice with pearl necklace, and a lace
cap. Leigh Court sale (1884), 800 guineas.
PEALE, CHARLES WILSON, born in
Chesterton, Md., April 16, 1741, died in
Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1827. Portrait painter,
pupil of Copley in Boston, and in 1770-74
of Benjamin West in London. On returning
to America he practised his art in
Maryland and Philadelphia, painting many
of the celebrated men of his time. He is
