Page:Cyclopedia of painters and paintings (IA cyclopediaofpain04cham).pdf/341

Italy before settling in New York in 1872, where he committed suicide. His morbid nature shows itself in the sombre character of his more important works. Works: First Grief; After the War; Veronica gazing upon the Face of her dead Rival; Othello and the Handkerchief, Palette Club, New York.

VALADON, JULES EMMANUEL, born in Paris, Oct. 5, 1826. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Drölling, Cogniet, and Henri Lehmann. Medal, 3d class, 1880. Works: Brother and Sister, Two Friends (1874); Bouquet Seller (1875); Artist's Portrait (1878), Orléans Museum; During a Funeral Service (1879); Charity (1881), Ministry of Fine Arts (1881); Mary Magdalen (1883); A Diogenes, Poor Man's Revel (1884); Revery (1885); At Church, Old Man (1886).—Bellier, ii. 608.

VALCKENBORCH, FREDERIK VAN, born at Mechlin about 1570, died at Nuremberg in 1623. Flemish school; genre and landscape painter, son and pupil of Lucas van Valckenborch, whom he accompanied to Nuremberg in 1566. Works: Annual Fair (1594), Kirmess Festival (1595), Vienna Museum; Woodland Scenes (2, 1622), Christiania Gallery; Woodland with Nymphs and Animals, Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen.—Kramm, vi. 1670.

VALCKENBORCH (Valkenburg), LUCAS VAN, born at Mechlin about 1530 or 1540, died in Germany about 1625. Flemish school; landscape and portrait painter; master of Mechlin guild in 1564; went in 1566 to Antwerp, where he seems to have studied under Pieter Brueghel, then with his brother Marten, and with Jan Frodeman de Vries to Aix-la-Chapelle and Liège, where they sketched many landscapes on the banks of the Meuse. In 1570 he followed the Archduke Matthias to Linz; painted for him several years, was afterwards associated with Joris Hoefnagel, for whom he made drawings at Frankfort in 1594, and in 1597 was settled at Nuremberg, where Sandrart knew him in 1622. Works: The Mines, Smithy, Camel Drivers, Arch-*ducal Palace at Brussels, Madrid Museum; Winter View of Antwerp (1559), City View (1593), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Rocky Landscape with Mill (1595), do. Landscape with Mineral Spring (1596) Brunswick Gallery; Kirmess in Flemish Village (1574), Gotha Museum; Tower of Babel (1568), Old Pinakothek, Munich; View of Linz on the Danube (1594), Oldenburg Gallery; Peasants' Brawl, Count of Burgau in Roman Armour (1580), Mountainous Landscapes (3, 1580, 1585), Summer (1585), Winter (1586), Ladies and Gentlemen in a Park (1587), Archduke Matthias Fishing (1590), Tavern Scene (1598), Museum, Vienna; City on River in Mountainous Landscape, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.—Fétis, Artistes belges à l'étranger, ii. 136; Kramm, vi. 1671; Michiels, vi. 146; Neefs, i. 223; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 21.

VALCKENBORCH (Valkenburg), MARTEN VAN, born at Mechlin in 1533 or 1542, died in Frankfort. Flemish school; landscape, genre, and portrait painter, brother of Lucas, with whom he went to Germany; afterwards settled in Frankfort. Works: Burning of Troy, Mardi Gras, Four Seasons, Frankfort Museum; Flat Country with Waggon, Gotha Gallery; Tower of Babel (1595), Dresden Gallery; Kirmess, Museum, Vienna; Landscapes (11), Ambras Collection, ib.; Gillis van Valckenborch, painter of the Defeat of Sennacherib (after 1600), in the Brunswick Gallery, was probably his son.—Kramm, vi. 1671; Nagler, xix. 310.

VALCKERT, WERNER VAN, flourished at Amsterdam first quarter of 17th century. History and portrait painter, supposed pupil of Hendrik Goltzius, in whose manner he painted; circumstances of life unknown. Works: Four Members of Merchants' Guild (1622), Four Regents of Lepers' House (1624), Three do., Military Organization