Mill-Pond; Park; Beech-Wood; Landscape with Wedding Procession; do. with Castle; Mill on Lugano Lake; Meersburg on Lake Constance; Westphalian Landscape (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 421.
POHLE, (FRIEDRICH) LEON, born in
Leipsic, Dec. 1, 1841.
Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Dresden
and Antwerp
Academies, and of
Weimar Art-School;
travelled in Germany,
Belgium, and France.
Since 1877 professor
at Dresden Academy.
Works: Margaret before
the Jewellery Box; Elegy; Portrait of
Poet Julius Grosse; do. of Ludwig Richter
(1879), Leipsic Museum, and (1880), National
Gallery, Berlin; do. of Geographer
Peschel, and of Ercole Torneamenti, Dresden
Gallery; do. of Baron von Nostitz-Wallwitz
(1883); Prince George of Saxony's
Children (1884); Thuringian Woman (Jubilee
Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Jordan
(1885), ii. 169; Müller, 421; Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 628; xix. 681.
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POIDEVIN. See Le Poittevin.
POINTELIN, AUGUSTE EMMANUEL,
born at Arbois (Jura) in 1839. Landscape
painter, pupil of Maire; was a schoolmaster
until 1866, when he took up painting. Medals:
3d class, 1878; 2d class, 1881. Works:
Wells of Moustier (1874); Plateau of the
Jura in Autumn (1876); Valley in the Jura
(1877); Meadow in Côte d'Or (1878); Grove
in the Morning, Willow in the Evening
(1879); September Evening (1880); Slopes
of Jura (1881); Arbour, Rocky Hills (1882);
Fallow Land in the Jura, End of the Woods
(1883); Rocky Path, Evening in the Woods
(1884); Forest Border, Height on the Coast
(1885); Meadow in Jura Mountains, Group
of Trees at Dawn (1886).
POLE, CARDINAL, portrait, Sebastian
del Piombo, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; canvas,
H. 3 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. Sitting, with left
hand on the arm of his chair; dressed in a
red toque and cap and white stole. Painted
under Paul III. (1535-49); a magnificent
canvass, long assigned to Raphael; formerly
in the galleries of the Chevalier de Clerville
and of the Comte d'Armagnac. Engraved
by Nicolas de Larmessin, and by Sanders.—C.
& C., N. Italy, ii. 356; Descr. de l'Ermitage,
i. 24.
POLEMON, painter, of Alexandria, mentioned
by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [146]), as not
without reputation.—Brunn, ii. 288.
POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO. See
Caravaggio.
POLLICE VERSO. See Gladiators.
POLLACK, LEOPOLD, born at Lodenitz, Bohemia, Nov. 8, 1806, died in Rome, Oct. 16, 1880. Genre painter, pupil of Prague (under Bergler) and Vienna Academies, went in 1831 to Rome and painted Italian life under the influence and in the manner of Riedel; visited Vienna in 1846 and became naturalized in Rome in 1853. Works: Shepherd Boy; Death of Moses; Boaz and Ruth; The Harem; Shepherdess with Lamb; Zuleika (after Byron), Villa Rosenstein, Stuttgart; Cupid riding on a Turtle; Italian Shepherds (1835), Female Pilgrim (1836), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Curious Girls (1838); Rebekah (1844); Head of a Bard (1850); Portrait of the Painter August Riedel (1851), New Pinakothek, Munich; Shepherd Boy in Roman Campagna, Harrach Gallery, Vienna; Nymphs Caressing (1858); Esmeralda (1865); Malicious Albanese Women (1868); Melusina; Chiara and her Sister; Diana; Carnival in Rome; Preciosa; Disturbed Sleep.—D. Kunstbl. (1850), 28, 367; Nagler, Mon., i. 357; Wurzbach, xxiii. 75.
POLLAJUOLO, ANTONIO and PIETRO,
Antonio born in Florence in 1433,
died there in 1498; Pietro born there in
1443, died there in or before 1496. Florentine
school; sons of Jacopo d'Antonio, a
goldsmith. Antonio, whose portrait is given,
closed his apprenticeship with his father in
1459, opened a workshop in Florence, and
