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Van den Branden, 401; Vlaamsche school (1862), 152.
VAFFLARD, PIERRE ANTOINE AUGUSTIN,
born in Paris, Dec. 19, 1777, died
there after 1838. History and portrait
painter, pupil of J. B. Regnault; in 1824 he
restored some of the paintings in the galleries
at Versailles, and in the gallery of
Diana in the Tuileries; decorated several
churches and palaces in oil and fresco. Court
painter to the Duc d'Orléans. Medal, 1824.
Works: Last Honours to Bertrand Duguesclin
(1806), Rennes Museum; Column of
Rosbach (1810), Versailles Museum; Electra
and Orestes (1814), Dijon Museum; St. Margaret
cast off by her Father (1817), Sainte
Marguerite, Paris; St. Ambrose saving an
Arian Priest (1819), Saint Ambroise, ib.;
Pythagoras inspired by the Muses (1819),
Versailles Museum; Death of St. Louis,
(1819), Burial Chapel of Orléans Family,
Dreux; Henri IV. in Notre Dame on Day
of his Entry into Paris (1819); Ulysses and
Nausicaä (1822); Last Benediction of Bishop
Bourlier of Evreux; Communion of Mary
Stuart; Henri IV. and the Abbess of Montmartre
(1824).—Bellier, ii. 606.
VAGA, PERINO DEL, born in Florence
in 1500, died in
Rome, Oct. 14, 1547.
Umbrian school.
Real name Buonaccorsi,
but called del
Vaga from a Florentine
painter of that
name who had given
him instruction.
Sometimes called
also Pierino. Pupil
of Andrea de' Ceri, of Ridolfo Ghirlandajo,
and of Vaga, who took him to Rome. Employed
there by Raphael on the frescos in
the Vatican, where he painted history of
Joshua and of David. After death of
Raphael, he aided Giulio Romano and Il
Fattore, whose sister he married, in completing
their master's works. Painted also
in S. Marcello the Creation of Eve, which
shows influence of Michelangelo. After the
sack of Rome (1527), he went to Genoa,
where he decorated the Palazzo Doria with
frescos, now mostly destroyed. About 1542
he returned to Rome, where he painted
frescos in Trinità de' Monti and in the Castello
S. Angelo. His later works were only
designed by him and finished by his pupils.
He was buried beside Raphael in the Pantheon.—Vasari,
ed. Mil., v. 587; Ch. Blanc,
École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 8, 177, 179,
181.
VAILLANT, WALLERANT, born at
Lille, baptized May 30, 1623, died in Amsterdam,
Aug. 28, 1677. Flemish school;
portrait painter, pupil in Antwerp of Erasmus
Quellin; painted in 1658 at the Coronation
in Frankfort the Emperor Leopold,
and then many sovereigns of Germany.
Went with the Marshal de Grammont to
Paris, where he painted the Queen, and
many persons of distinction; returned home
after four years, and settled in Amsterdam.
His brother and pupil, Jacob (1628-1670),
commonly called Leeuwerik (lark), was a
successful history and portrait painter at
the court of the Elector in Berlin; most of
his pictures are in the royal palaces of Berlin
and Potsdam. Works: Portraits of
Man and Wife (1674), Lady with two Children,
Amsterdam Museum; Managers of
Orphanage (1671), Orphan Asylum, Amsterdam;
Portrait of Great Elector, Brunswick
Gallery; do., Royal Palace, Berlin; Sacrifice
of Iphigenia, Cassel Gallery; Board with
Letters Attached (1658), Dresden Gallery;
Male Portrait, Oldenburg Gallery.—Bellier,
ii. 607; Immerzeel, iii. 152; Kramm, vi.
1667; Kugler, ii. 332; Riegel, Beiträge,
ii. 279.
VAINI, PIETRO, born in Rome in 1847, died in New York in 1875. Subject and portrait painter, studied and painted in