PIERRE

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• PIERRE PRIEUR (c. 1626-c. 1676)

PRIEUR (c. 1626-c. 1676)  , French enamel painter . He married Marie (1610-1677), sister of jean Petitot, as her second husband . In 1669 he was in England, painting a miniature of Charles II. and another of Lady Castlemaine, both after Cooper, for the king of Denmark . In 167o he was in Poland, painting for the Danish monarch a portrait of King Michael, and in the following year was in Denmark executing a remarkable series of portraits of the children of Frederick III . All these, with some beautiful enamel badges for the Order of the Elephant, are in the Danish royal collection . By Christian V. he is said to have been sent to Spain and Russia, where several examples of his work, dated 1676, are to be seen in the Hermitage . In the following year he died in Denmark . He was a Huguenot, and was said to possess secret colours in enamel, especially a blue, which were not known to his Petitot relations . His work in England is of great rarity, Lord Dartrey possessing the finest example, and there are two remarkable works in the Pierpont Morgan collection and one at Windsor Castle . Two in the Propert collection have been lost sight of . (G . C .