PENS, PEINS, or PENCZ, GREGOR, a German painter and engraver, was born at Nuremberg about 1500. His knowledge of art was obtained under very favourable circumstances. He first became the pupil of his fellow-townsmen Albert Durer. Then having removed to Rome, he softened and refined his style of painting by studying the works of Raphael, and acquired the art of engraving by attending the instructions and aiding the labours of Marcantonio Raimondi. How much advantage he received from these great masters is shown by his numerous prints, which are so well known in England, and by his historical pictures, which are preserved in the galleries of Vienna, Munich, Nuremberg, and Berlin. The death of Pens took place about 1550.