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VACCARO, ANDREA, born in Naples in 1598, died there in 1670. Neapolitan school; pupil of Girolamo Imparato; followed first the style of Caravaggio and later that of Guido. After the death of Stanzioni he was considered the best painter in Naples, until Luca Giordano came to maturity. Pictures in churches in Naples, and Massacre of the Innocents, Baptism of St. Candidus, Naples Museum; Christ appearing to Mary, Dresden Gallery; Christ at the Column, Infant Christ sleeping in the Arms of St. John, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Christ on the Cross, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Magdalen Penitent, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Lanzi, ii. 42; Ch. Blanc, École napolitaine; Burckhardt, 768, 792; Lavice, 224.
VACHE BLANCHE (The White Cow), Émil van Marcke, Samuel F. Barger, New York; canvas. A fine study of a white cow in a pleasing landscape, which, however, is subordinate to the figure.
VADDER, LODEWYCK DE, born in
Brussels, baptized April 8, 1605, died there,
buried Aug. 10, 1655. Flemish school;
landscape painter, seems to have been in
Italy and studied Titian. Master of the
guild at Brussels, 1628. Excelled in rendering
early morning mist and effects of
light. Approached Rubens in richness and
vivacity of colour. Works: Woodland
Scene, Darmstadt Museum; Two Landscapes
with Figures, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck;
Horsemen
passing through
Ravine, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Landscape, Stockholm
Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 152; Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 341; Kramm, vi. 1665; Kunst-Chronik,
xxi. 523.
VAENIUS (Venius), OTHO, born at Leyden
in 1558, died in Brussels, May 6, 1629.
Flemish school. Real name Octavio van
Veen. History and portrait painter, pupil
at Leyden of Isack Claesz Swanenburg,
called Nicolai, and at Liège (1572) of Lampsonius,
then in Rome (1575-80) of F. Zucchero;
returned to Liège and in 1584 to
Leyden; went
to Antwerp in
1593; master of
the guild there
in 1594, its dean
in 1602-3; became
court
painter to Albrecht
and Isabella,
governors
of the Netherlands,
who called him to Brussels as superintendent
of the mint; received into the
guild there in 1620. He was the master of
Rubens, and a good poet and scholar.
Works: Portraits (2), Madrid Museum;
Artist and his Family (1584), Louvre; Crucifixion,
Christ bearing the Cross, Marriage
of St. Catherine (1589), Brussels Museum;
Raising of Lazarus, Ghent Cathedral; Serpent
on the Fig-Tree, Calling of St. Matthew,
Charity of St. Nicholas, Miracle by St.
Nicholas, St. Paul at Cæsarea, Portrait of
Jean Miraeus, Museum, Antwerp; Christ and
the Repentant Sinners, The Virgin nursing
Infant Christ, Last Supper, Raising of Lazarus,
Raising of Widow's Son, Entombment,
Cathedral, ib.; Martyrdom of St. Andrew,
St. Andrew's, ib.; Twelve Scenes in History
of the Ancient Batavians (1613), Amsterdam
Museum; Descent from the Cross, Aschaffenburg
Gallery; Allegory on Fall of Man, Bamberg
Gallery; Assumption (1608), Brunswick
Gallery; Minerva protecting Youth, Stockholm
Museum; Unadvised Youth, Cologne
Museum; Minerva and the Muses, Berlin
Museum; Triumph of Catholic Church (6),
Fifteen Scenes in History of Christ and the
Virgin, Schleissheim Gallery; Rape of Proserpine,
Stuttgart Museum; Holy Family,
Portraits of Archdukes Albrecht and Ernst,
Vienna Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande;
Van den Branden, 401; Immerzeel,
iii. 157; Kramm, vi. 1679; Messager des
sciences hist. (1868), 328; (1877), 313;
Michiels, vi. 352, 468; Rooses (Reber), 148;