- turned to Fez, and to have died there.
Works: Virgin and Saints, Madrid Museum; Christ blessing the World, The Virgin in Prayer, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Stirling, i. 263; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Madrazo, 518.
PRAIRIE DE LACKEN, Rubens, Buckingham
Palace; wood, H. 2 ft. 10 in. × 4
ft. 1 in. A hilly landscape, with a pool of
water, and figures of peasants and cattle.
One of the master's finest landscapes. Purchased
for George IV. at Agnard sale, Paris.
Engraved by Van Uden; J. Neefs.—Waagen,
Treasures, ii. 3; Smith, ii. 237.
PRATT, MATTHEW, born in Philadelphia
in 1734, died there in 1805. Portrait
painter, pupil of West in London in 1764-68.
He was for many years a sign painter in
Philadelphia before he seriously turned his
attention to art. In England he painted
the portraits of the Duchess of Manchester,
Duke of Portland, and Governor Hamilton;
in America, among others, Lieutenant-Governor
Cadwallader Colden, for the New
York Chamber of Commerce in 1772.
PREISLER, DANIEL, born in Prague,
March 8, 1627, died in Nuremberg, June
19, 1665. German school; history and
portrait painter, settled in Nuremberg in
1654, and became master of the guild there.
Works: Death of Abel, Female Portrait,
Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Sending
of the Holy Ghost, Hospital Church, ib.;
Ascension, Schlosskirche, ib.; Christ and
the Children, Vienna Museum; Male Portrait
(1663), Brunswick Gallery.—Huber, ii.
64; Rettberg, 193.
PRELL, HERMANN, born at Leipsic,
April 29, 1854. Genre painter, pupil of
Dresden and of Berlin Academies under
Grosse and Gussow respectively, studied in
Rome in 1880-81, and then was commissioned
to decorate the Banquet Hall in the
House of Architects at Berlin. Works:
The Last Chase (1878); Girl's Head (1883).
In fresco: Justice and Valour, Incident in
Life of Emperor Henry IV. (1883), City
Hall, Worms; Epochs of Architecture (11
pictures, 1882), House of Architects, Berlin.—Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 28; Zeitschr. f.
b. K., xviii. 367, 401; xx. 149; Allgem. K.
C., ix. 542.
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PRELLER, FRIEDRICH (JOHANN
CHRISTIAN
ERNST), the elder,
born in Eisenach,
April 25, 1804, died
in Weimar, April 23,
1878. Landscape
painter, pupil of
Weimar Art-School
under Kunschtmeyer,
studied in Dresden
in 1820, returned
following year to Weimar, where he entered
into friendly relations with Goethe,
and spent the next two summers again in
Dresden, studying after Ruysdael and Potter,
then in 1823-25 under Van Bree at
Antwerp Academy, two years at Milan
Academy, and in 1827-31 in Rome, where
he attached himself especially to Koch. Returning
to Weimar, he became professor,
court painter, and honorary member of
Dresden Academy; visited Italy again in
1859-61 and 1875. Works: Six Thuringian
Landscapes with historical figures,
Grand Ducal Palace, Weimar; Scenes from
Oberon (1835-37), Wieland Room, ib.; 7
Scenes from Odyssey (1834-36), Dr. Härtel,
Leipsic; Norwegian Coast (1850), Heroic
Landscape (1874), Dresden Gallery; do.,
and Styrian Landscape (1853), National Gallery,
Berlin; Nausicaa and Ulysses in Isle
of the Phæacians (1864), Raczynski Gallery,
ib.; View in Sabine Mountains with Good
Samaritan, Leipsic Museum; Leucothea appearing
to Ulysses, Calypso taking Farewell
of Ulysses, Schack Gallery, Munich;
Bear-Trainer in Street of Antwerp (1824),
Three Views in Norway (1840, 1846), Vultures
in Bavarian Highlands (1856), Cycle
of 16 scenes from Odyssey (1863-68, masterpiece),
Weimar Museum; Cartoons for
do., Leipsic Museum.—Allgem. Zeitg. (1878),
No. 141; Art Journal (1881), 289; Cotta's
