under Behrendsen, and of Düsseldorf Academy under Dücker; travelled extensively in Germany and Switzerland; lives in Düsseldorf. Works: View on Kurish Haff; Landscape in Holstein; View in Hartz Mountains; Schwendi Alp in Switzerland; Autumn Morning; Landscape with Cows.—Müller, 411.
PERCELLES. See Porcellis.
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PEREDA, ANTONIO DE, born at Valladolid
in 1599, died in Madrid in 1669.
Spanish school; pupil of Pedro de las Cuevas;
when only eighteen years old painted
a Conception which won him reputation.
Employed by the Duke of Olivárez, he
painted soon after, in the Palace of Buen
Retiro, the Raising of the Siege of Genoa,
for which he received five hundred ducats.
His masterpiece, The Disenchantment of
Life, is in the Academy of San Fernando.
Other works: St. Jerome, Madrid Museum;
Fruits and Musical Instruments, Louvre,
Paris; Fruit-Piece, Brussels Museum; Fortune
Teller, Carlsruhe Gallery; Officers
playing at Draughts, Spanish Nobleman,
Old Pinakothek,
Munich;
Still-life
(two,
1652), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Stirling,
ii. 701; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Viardot,
263; Madrazo, 515.
PEREIRA, GONÇALVES, born in Lisbon,
July 23, 1839, died Oct. 2, 1878. Animal
painter, pupil of Lisbon Academy, especially
successful in painting the horse; was
also a sculptor, and as such excelled in portraits.
Works: Vista da Tapata; Turtle Dove
and Cat; Romeo and Juliet (Doves); many
horse pictures.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xx. 764.
PEREIRA, LEONEL MARQUES, born
in Lisbon, Feb. 25, 1828. Genre painter,
pupil and member of Lisbon Academy.
Medal: Spanish Order of Isabella. Works:
Market; Village Festival.
PERGER, SIGMUND FERDINAND
VON, Ritter, born in Vienna, Aug. 17, 1778,
died there in 1841. History and animal
painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; went to
Italy in 1810, became court-painter in 1817,
and custodian of the Belvedere Gallery in
1825. Works: Eucles bringing News of
Victory at Marathon (1809); Horse-Race at
Kopcsán (1816); Napoleon's Battle-Horse,
William of Albarack compelling Alfred I. to
marry his Daughter (1820); Margrave Leopold
refusing Imperial Crown (1824); African
Horse pursued by Tiger (1826); Abduction
of Ganymede (1828); Horse Stable
(1830); Stallions Playing (1832); Homer
singing at Athens (1834); Emperor Rudolph
I. at Royal Banquet in Aachen, Cupid fleeing
from Psyche (1835).—Wurzbach, xxii.
13.
PERICLES, picture. See Aristolaus.
PÉRIGNON, ALEXIS, born in Paris in
1806, died there in April, 1882. Genre,
history, and more especially portrait painter;
pupil of his father, Alexis Nicolas (1785-1864),
and of Gros. Medals: 3d class,
1836; 2d class, 1838; 1st class, 1844; L.
of Honour, 1856; Officer, 1870. Works:
Death of Montaigne (1836); Woman taken
in Adultery (1838); Christ carrying the
Cross (1840); Christ in the Garden, Roger
and Angelica (1841); Portraits of the King
of Belgium and others.—Bellier, ii. 234;
Courrier de l'Art (1881-82), 156; Larousse.
PERIN, ALPHONSE, born in Paris,
March 12, 1798, died in 1875. History and
portrait painter, pupil of Guérin and of the
École des Beaux Arts; went to Rome in
1827, became intimate with Orsel, and was
influenced, like him, by the so-called Nazarites,
Overbeck, Veit, and others. Medals:
2d class, 1827; L. of Honour, 1854. Works:
Samaritan Woman, Holy Family (1827);
Italian Landscapes. Mural paintings: Glorification
of the Eucharist, etc., Notre Dame
de Lorette.—Bellier, ii. 235, 305; Larousse.
PERINO or PIERINO. See Vaga, Perino
del.
PERNHARDT, MARCUS, born at Untermieger,
Carinthia, July 6, 1824. Landscape
painter, pupil in Klagenfurt of Eduard von
Moro; excels in winter landscapes. Works:
