Pickering, Robert, a noted Wesleyan preacher,
was born at Sancton. Yorkshire, in 1786; was early con- verted to God, and called to the duties of the Christian ministry. Having for some time labored as a local preacher in the Hull Circuit, he offered to accompany Dr. Coke as a missionary to the East. But. as Coke had obtained his complement of young men, Pickering regarded this as a providential indication that he was not intended for the mission field. Soon after he passed the required examinations, and at the Conference of 1811 was placed on the president's list of reserves. In November of the same year he was sent as tempo- rary supply to Partington Circuit, and in the following January to Spilsby. At the Conference of 1812 he was appointed to Horncastle; and in 1813 to the Spilsby mission. His next appointment was to Louth, where he spent two years. Subsequently he travelled at Tod- morden, Barnsley, and Doncaster, and in 1822 was ap- pointed to Colne, where he remained three years. Here
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his exertions, both of mind and body, in the erection of a new chapel and two preachers' houses, Beriously im- paired his health. In 1827 he was stationed at Ketter- ing; next at Norwich; in 1831 at West Bromwicb, and there he labored Faithfully, although rapidly declining in health. While at Conference in London in 1834 he was taken very ill. and lie died August 18. Pickering was a man of genuine piety. As a preacher he was a workman who needed nol to lie ashamed. He was well and extensively read in theology and general literature. Asa man he was fearless and honorable. Whathe con- sidered i" i>e his duty lie unhesitatingly discharged. v,, i! leyan Metk. Mag, 1836, p. 889 895; 1835, p. 719. i.i. II. W.i
Pickett, John I.'., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal t thurch, South, was born April _'. 181 1. in Fair- field District, S. C., of godly parentage; was converted in L831; called of God in the ministry, he began in preach October, 1834, and in the following spring en- tered South Carolina Conference. He labored faith- fully and acceptably for the Church until 1862, when an attack of paralysis obliged him to lake a superan- nuated relation. He died March 15, 1870. lie was quick in perception, patient in study, strong in will, possessed great powers of analysis, and w lively imagi- nation. In temper he was genial, hearty, self-possessed, and confident. Be had the simplicity of a child, both in and mil of I he pulpit. His manner in the pulpit was eelf-possessi d and deliberate; but as he proceeded in his sermon, b' g< nerally warmed with bis subject, and his voice assumed a depth and fulness of volume which was wonderful. See Annual Minutes of the Conferences if the Meth. Episc. church. South, p. 420, 421.
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Picot, Francois Edouard, a French painter, was born at Paris in 1786. He was a disciple of Vincent, and in 1811 obtained the second grand prize for paint- ings in France from the Academy. After studying for Borne time at Rome, be was intrusted with the execution ofa picture represi nting '/'//■ Death ofSapphira I L819) for i he church of St. Severin. In the same year he ex- hibited the tableau of Amor and Psyche, the figures of which, expressive of graceful naivete, obtained great favor, and which was bought by the d uke of Orleans. ,M. Picot was rewarded at that, exhibition by a first- class medal. After this auspicious beginning he exe- cuted freelj and successfully. Among bis works are Raphael and tin Fornarina; Tht Deliverana of St. J'l/ir: 'I'hi A nnunciation; two ceilings in the Louvre,in the Muse'e des Antiques. Picot had a share in the work ol n toration of the paintings of the Fontainebleau pal- ace. He executed Thi Crowning of th* Virgin (Notre Dame de Loretto) ; the paintings of the ship and choir of St. Vincent de Paul, w ith M. Flandrin ; and some pict- he church of St. Clotilde. M. Picot was re- ceived a member ol Hie Vcademie <ics Beaux An- in 1836, in the place of Charles Verner. He was created an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1832. He died lb i. i, r. Nouv. Biog. Generale, xl,86.
Picot, Michel Joseph Pierre, a French writer note, was born March 24, I77(>. til Neuville- aux-Boix, near < Orleans, lb- was early destined for the Church, and was received at the age of thirteen in the house of the bishop of Bayeux. He studied theology at the seminary of Orleans. While professor of human- ities al Meung-Sur-Loire, he refused the oath required by the civil constitution of the clergy. A warrant be- ing issued against him tor his slum- in the evasion of a royalist, he absconded to Paris ; then, submitting to the duties of the requisition which he had shirked till then, he offered to enter the marine (1793), and. after tWO campaigns, was employed in the equipment office at in 17'.'7 be was released, and devoted himself
to the study of the hislon of the Church during the
is ii century. The Memoir es which lie published in
Miie,i the eulogies of i i ties, espe-
cially of the abb<; Boulogne, who intrusted him with the redaction of the Memorial Catkoliqve, a monthly paper founded by him. Ill the month of April. 1*1 i. he was called upon to manage VAmi • hi Rot, which soon became the official journal of the clergy. He died Nov. 15, 1841, at Paris. lie left, pourserviraTHtstoin ecclesiastiqvu pendant h dix-kuitieme Siecli (Paris, 1806, 1815 1816, I vols. 8vo; 3d edit. 6 vols.8vo); this valuable publication is less