- kirche, ib.; Resurrection, St. Mary's, Barth,
Pomerania; Altarpiece, St. Gotthard's, Brandenburg; Entombment, The Holy Women at Christ's Tomb (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Christl. Kunstbl. (1873), 38; Müller, 415; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 120.
PFEIFFER, WILHELM, born at Wolfenbüttel,
Jan. 15,1822. Genre and animal
painter; studied in Munich, where he now
lives and paints chiefly small equestrian
pieces, which are in great demand. Works:
Landscape with Horses; Runaway Farm-Horse;
Bringing in Hay before Storm, Provinzial
Museum, Hanover; Old Peasant and
Scarecrow, New Pinakothek, Munich; Morning
Ride (1879); Sowing (Jubilee Exhibition,
Berlin, 1886).
PFLEGER, KARL NIKOLAUS, born in
Munich, died there in 1688. German school;
history painter, studied in Munich and for
three years in Italy. Master of the guild
in 1659, and one of the notable artists who
worked in Munich during the second half
of the 17th century. Court-painter in 1685.
Works: Christ, Joachim, Joseph, Zachariah
and Elizabeth (life-size), Incredulity of
Thomas, Frauenkirche, Munich.—Nagler,
xi. 218.
PFLUG, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at
Biberach, Würtemberg, in 1785, died there
in 1865. Genre painter, pupil of Munich
Academy, where he copied old Dutch masters,
especially Netscher; painted mostly
humorous scenes from Suabian peasant life
and military subjects; many of them are
in the royal palaces at Stuttgart and Friedrichshafen.
Works: The Gamblers; Peasant
Wedding; Gypsy Family; Peasant Inn;
Battle of Stockach (1842); Distribution of
Medals among Veterans (1843); Austrian
Hussars (1844); Departure of Russians from
Waldsee; Several pictures at Villa Rosenstein,
near Stuttgart.—Nagler, xi. 219.
PFORR, JOHANN GEORG, born at
Upfen (Ulfen?), Hesse, Jan. 4, 1745, died
in Frankfort, June 9, 1798. German school;
animal painter, pupil of Cassel Academy;
won the first prize in 1778, became member
in 1779, and settled in Frankfort in
1781. Called the German Wouwerman, from
his skill in painting the horse. Works:
Horse Market, Falcon Chase (1786), Two
English Horses (1797), Turkish Stallion
(1798), four others, Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Others in Rehn Collection, ib.; Horses
taken to Pond, Oldenburg Gallery. His
son Franz (born in Frankfort, April 5, 1788,
died at Albano, June 16, 1812) was a history
painter, pupil of Tischbein in Cassel, then
of Vienna Academy, where he was allied
with Overbeck, with whom he went to Rome
and became a follower of Cornelius. Work:
Rudolph von Hapsburg giving his Horse to
the Priest, Städel Gallery, Frankfort.—Förster,
iv. 228; Nagler, xi. 221; do, Mon, ii.
795; Riegel, Gesch. des Wiederauflebens
der d. K. (Leipsic, 1882), 244, 247.
PHASIS, painter, date unknown; mentioned
in an epigram by Cornelius Longinus
as having painted a picture of the Athenian
general Cynegirus, distinguished at
Marathon (490 B.C.).—Herod, vi. 114; Anthol.
Gr., ii. 184, 2 (Planud., iv. 117); Sillig,
33.
PHELAN, CHARLES T., born in New
York in 1840. Landscape painter, pupil of
Professor Rondel. Exhibits at the National
Academy. Studio in New York. Works:
Storm and Sheep, Brook in Ulster County
(1880); Near Ravenswood, Suburb in Long
Island (1881); Sheep Drinking, Sheep going
to Pasture (1882); Autumn Study—Ravenswood
(1884), T. B. Clarke, New York.
PHELPS, WILLIAM PRESTON, born
in New Hampshire; contemporary. Landscape
painter, pupil of Velten in Munich.
Occasionally exhibits at National Academy.
Studio in Lowell, Mass. Works: Forest
Scene near Munich, Morning, Evening
(1878); Tillers of the Soil, Autumn (1880).
PHILIP II., portrait, Titian, Palazzo Giustiniani,
Padua; canvas, H. 3 ft. 9 in. × 3
ft. 1 in. The Prince, in black-silk doublet
and white pelisse, sitting in an arm-chair.
Painted in Augsburg in 1550; from the Bar-
